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Greetings from Class 3B at Meadgate Primary School, Chelmsford, England.
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, situated about thirty miles north east of London. It is the ‘home of radio’ and where the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was established in 1900. Here are some of the things that the children would like to tell you about our school. ‘Meadgate School is a lot of fun and there are a lot of happy people here and we look after each other. We have a large playground, a massive field and a quiet area that we call Matthew’s garden. We have an indoor swimming pool where we swim every week. We have lots of competitions. Recently some of us made stockings for our Christmas Bazaar competition. At the moment we are learning about the Vikings and we also have numeracy, science, I.C.T. and design and technology and many other subjects. When we look out of our classroom window we can see our wildlife area.’ Just over 180 children in 7 classes attend Meadgate. The children in class 3B would love to hear from other 7 and 8 year olds. Our school website is in the process of being updated, but please have a look at it for some more information about our school From Mrs Bower and all the children in class 3B |
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Aneen Ranvilles Infant School
Your site is a wonderful approach to making learning a enjoyable part of life. I do hope that there will be an exciting response to your efforts. My scanner is not acting very well right now. I will be sending your photographs of my ancestral home territory as soon as repairs are completed. I will tell you a few things about my childhood. I was born, Myrelene Henderson, into the family who signed Treaty 1 with HRH Queen Victoria. My Grandfather's brother, Peter Henderson, signed the Treaty 1 in 1871. I grew up on the Fort Alexander Indian Reservation. The territory was set aside in the Treaty 1 for our exclusive use. The Treaty 1 is a " force of law" in Canada. As a child I recall that our childhood was pretty exclusive. There were very few Europeans and their descendants evident with the exception of the Clergy and teachers. There are currently laws in Canada that maintain this exclusive existence. The laws are written in the Government of Canada's Indian Act. I will tell you my feelings and attitudes regarding the Indian Act, if you ask. My territory is located at the mouth of the Winnipeg River in the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The Province of Manitoba is right in the middle of the country of Canada. I attended the Fort Alexander Anglican Day School. It was within walking distance of my home. By the time that I was born my Anishnabay, relatives of the Algonquin tribes, the reservation was where we lived permanently. Although we located permanently on the reservation, my family continued to pursue our tradition harvests of the fruits (wild plums), berries(blueberries), nuts(hazelnuts, oak), herbs for teas and medicines and other food stuffs. I feel that I had a wonderful childhood. Romping over and around the ecosystem called the Canadian Shield was exhilarating and healthy. My first language is Anishnabay. One of the Algonquin languages of North America. I began to speak English when I enter the first grade at the age of six. I still speak both languages. I am a published author in the English language. I have now begun to create a "how to book" on learning to speak Anishnabay. An Ojibway speaker would be able to understand Anishnabay as should most of our linguistic relatives. However, it is intended for individuals from any Nation who wishes to begin to learn my language. I had one teacher for five years in the one room Little Red School. We had a English developmental readings series that offered a Grade Four reader called, "Wide Open Windows". I have loved reading ever since then. I completed my elementary, secondary and post secondary, as much as I wanted for now, education. I worked for many years as a public servant for the Government of Canada. I was fortunate to be able to be a public servant with opportunities to work in three provinces of Canada, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan. I left the public service in order to concentrate on establishing my own home business. I am an author and writer. I am married to Brian Ranville, a director, Brandon University. We have a son, Sean and a daughter, Danielle. I am also part British. My maternal Grandfather, Thomas Wilkins, was a British Home Child. I am, currently, researching my British roots. Maybe , my research will bring me to your country. I will get the photos soon I hope. Ki chi meeg wetch, thank you very much in Anishnabay. Myrelene Ranville |
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Hello Ranvilles Infants School,
Warm regards from Canada! The snow is finally starting to melt, we are looking forward to Spring! We live in the beautiful province of British Columbia in the city of Penticton. My daughters are 5 and 7 years old and have enjoyed your website and learning about so many interesting people and where their from. We'd love to hear from anyone at your school. I am a teacher at an Elementary School, I teach Year 5. Cheers, Info from: http://www.penticton.ca/ Pen-tic-ton, as translated by the local Salish Native Americans, means "a place to live forever" or "a place to live year-round". Penticton is situated in British Columbia, Canada's most westerly province and is known as "the Country's business window to the Pacific". BC has a coastline of 7,022 km and an area of approximately 952,263 sq. km. It is Canada's third largest province, occupying almost ten percent of its land surface. BC is nearly four times the size of Great Britain, 2.5 times larger than Japan, and larger than all the U.S. states except Alaska. The land is exceptionally rich with two million hectares of water resources. The City is located in BC's south centre region, collectively known as the Okanagan Valley or simply the Okanagan. It is renowned the world over as one of the most pleasant areas in Canada in which to live. The valley is the northern extension of the Columbia River basin, and forms a high temperate desert area in Canada. |
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Hello,
My name is Crystal Weaver and I am a freshman at Purdue University, where I am studying engineering.Purdue is in West Lafayette, Indiana, about 200 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois or 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, right in the heart of Midwestern America (At least that's how we see it). Lafayette is a small city, with a population between 10 and 20 thousand people, excluding us college students. Since I've only been in Lafayette for a few weeks, I can't really tell that much about it. As for Purdue, it is very large - has around 35,000 students. It is well known for its engineering program; in fact, many of the NASA astronauts are Purdue engineering graduates.There are many students from other parts of the world here - about 43%of the undergraduate students are from different countries (there happens be an article about this in our school newspaper today) This diversity makes it a very interesting place to learn and meet new people! Indiana itself is a rather unexciting state. Indianapolis (my home town) is the biggest city in the state. There are about 1,000,000 people living there, but it does not feel like a large city the way Chicago, New York, or London do. Indiana is most well known for growing corn and soybeans, so it is a farming state. Right now the weather here is rather hot and humid. It doesn't rain much during late August and early September, so everything is rather dry. It will start to cool down towards the middle of September, with temperatures ranging from 45 degrees Fahrenheit to 80 degrees Farenheit. I don't know what else to tell you, because this basically sums up the important parts of Indiana. I wish you lots of luck in your endeavor and hope that you get many emails from across the world ! Crystal Weaver |
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Hello from Snaith Primary School
If you look at a map of England you can find us in the County of East Yorkshire, seven miles away from the port of Goole. There are 250 children in our School and they are a happy bunch. Snaith is only a small place ... a church, 5 pubs, a small fire station ... and a load of houses. Well, it was a small place ... the builders have just moved in to begin a large estate. If you would like to see pictures of us ... have a look around our website.
Derek Allen |
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Hello ranvilles
My school is a primary school. There are 4 years of primary school education in Northrhine Westphalia, Germany. We have about 320 pupils in 12 classes and we have a "Schulkindergarten". This means we have three classes per year: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c etc. plus "SKG"(Schulkindergarten). The children in our SKG need special education insofar as their skills are not as widely developed as should be expected. They go to SKG for a year and then start school the following year in class 1. Our pupils leave primary school after four years and then go on to schools of "further" education. There are 12 teachers teaching at our school + the headteacher + nursery school teacher + a Turkish teacher for the teaching of Turkish to our Turkish pupils + a young lady who will be a teacher in a very short time. She will pass her tests on November 22 nd. Hamm-Bockum-Hvel is situated at both the margin of the "Mnsterland" (agricultural countryside) and of the "Ruhrgebiet" (used to be our industrial heartland, but is not any longer). Bockum-Hvel used to have a coal mine. But that has been shut down sometimes in the nineties. Since then we have a fairly large amount of unemployed people living here. Hamm simply could not attract other industries. About 20 - 25% of our pupils are of Turkish origin. Quite a few of them are German citizens now. There is no "Auslnderfeindlichkeit" to be noticed at our part of the country. We get along nicely. Bockum-Hvel has about 30 000 inhabitants, Hamm as a whole about 180 000. Fareham isn`t too far from Portsmouth, is it? I am asking because I think Diusburg, my home town, is twinned with Portsmouth. It was one of the very first connections made between an English and a German town after World War II. They began working on this connection in the year after I was born, 1950. For 52 years there are strong links between both towns. Best Wishes Hildegard |
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Hello!
Your idea sounds great! Our school is called Hanborough Manor CE School and it is in rural Oxfordshire. Most of the children here come from the village of Long Hanborough and altogether there are just over 200 children in 8 classes. We came back to school last week, as I expect you did too, and so far have had too many "wet playtimes" for our liking!
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Hi there,
My name is Ron Hansen and I'm a student at the University of Wisconsin located in Madison Wisconsin, USA. There was a blurb on the Queen Website that you were looking for people to send you messages, so this is mine. Keep learning, Ron Hansen |
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Southwold Primary School - Nottingham (UK)
The school is isolated in a triangle surrounded by 2 major roads - one a direct route into the city centre, the other the ring road running North South around the City - and a train line. As you can imagine it can get quite noisy with train horns, emergency sirens, buses accelerating and lorries braking. Our school is in the middle of Nottingham, only a 10 minute bus ride from the Old Market Square and Council House. On the other side of the main road is a new university building and we saw the Queen open the building last year. There are lots of houses around our school, as well as lots of allotments for people to grow vegetables.
Mr Widdowson
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Davis Creek Elementary - West Virginia (USA)
"We cannot educate today's students with yesterday's technology and expect tomorrow's successes." "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
Sharon Simon |
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