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01-07 Germany visit widened students' horizons

Our Year 9 students embraced German culture and made new friends during their visit to Germany.

Our Year 9 students embraced German culture and made new friends during their visit to Germany.

The trip was designed to give the students the opportunity to practice their language skills and learn about the country, its culture and history.

The students visited a number of exciting attractions and historical sites and became good friends with a party of German secondary school students who were staying in the same youth hostel on a residential trip.

CTS German Teacher Caroline Worth said: “Our students really enjoyed the trip. One student was particularly impressed by the architecture of Cologne Cathedral, they all loved the tour of Siegfried’s Mechanisches Musikkabinet and they had a great time at the Phantasialand theme park.

“It was also fantastic that they had the chance to spend time with students from the Johnann-Christian-Senckenbery Schule Runkel.

“The students played one another in an international football match and the meeting helped our students to overcome any fears they had about speaking German because they wanted to make friends with the other students.

“The visit really opened our students’ eyes to what life is like in Germany and they all improved their language skills.”

During the visit the students stayed at the Jugendherberge Festung Ehrenbreitstein and also visited the Lindt Factory, the Niederwald Monument, a hunting castle, the “red wine village” Assmanshausen and took a two-hour boat trip along the Rhein.

To see pictures from the visit click here

To find out more about the German school we became friends with click here