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I am going to stay with a Russian family on a school exchange. My partner is 15 and said she would like something english. Anyone got any ideas. Not too expensive.
Thanks
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You could bring a CD of a local band that has not yet made it internationally.
Maybe a book with a lot of photos and a little text, maybe about your home area, or a calendar.
England has many tea towels, nicely printed ones with funny texts or nice pictures.
Some sweets, not the packaged brands that are internationally known, but the old fashioned kind out of a small museum in your area.
If you can not find anything else, a brand kind of sweets or biscuits in a decorated tin with the name of the brand printed on the outside.
If you can find a bag, shopping bag, hand bag, make-up bag or even a pencil case, doesn't matter, with a map of England or something typically English like a double decker bus or the map or the London underground that would be a nice item.
Even if it is a cheap paper bag that people use to pack things in souvenir shops, or like the shops of National trust, the tourist information office or Past Times, use it to wrap whatever you buy as an extra present.
And you are right, not too expensive, you do not want to show how rich you are but just that you like to stay with them. Just one of the items above alone will do to show that.
You could bring a CD of a local band that has not yet made it internationally.
Maybe a book with a lot of photos and a little text, maybe about your home area, or a calendar.
England has many tea towels, nicely printed ones with funny texts or nice pictures.
Some sweets, not the packaged brands that are internationally known, but the old fashioned kind out of a small museum in your area.
If you can not find anything else, a brand kind of sweets or biscuits in a decorated tin with the name of the brand printed on the outside.
If you can find a bag, shopping bag, hand bag, make-up bag or even a pencil case, doesn't matter, with a map of England or something typically English like a double decker bus or the map or the London underground that would be a nice item.
Even if it is a cheap paper bag that people use to pack things in souvenir shops, or like the shops of National trust, the tourist information office or Past Times, use it to wrap whatever you buy as an extra present.
And you are right, not too expensive, you do not want to show how rich you are but just that you like to stay with them. Just one of the items above alone will do to show that.
What are some excellent boarding schools in Britain?
What are some excellent boarding schools in Britain?
Hello,
I am 11 years old (on my father's account obviously) and I am an american boy. I want to go to boarding school in England. I want to go to a boarding school in ENgland because I fell the education here in america is lacking, horribly. So what are some good boarding schools in the u.k that allow foreigners (like i would be) to join and what are the price ranges?
Answer
(I don't understand why my answer doesn't seem to be there, here it is again then...)
It does depend a lot on where you want to be in England, and how much your dad is willing to spend ;)
It also depends what it is that you want to benefit from. Take a look at some of the schools below, and if you are interested in them then you can either email them some questions, or ask for a prospectus.
I had two kids and both went to boarding schools - but they were day pupils so they came home every day. A lot of children will do that, although it depends on the school as to how many. We had a girl and a boy, so they went to different schools, we chose to send to single sex schools, but you don't have to do that if you don't want to. You do find that girls do better at all girls' schools, but boys do better at coeducational ones, apparently the female influence helps the boys whereas the male influence holds the girls back.
You get a lot of 'extra' education when you go to a school like this. They have far more opportunities to do music, sports, travel. I know that free state schools do a certain amount of that too, but not anywhere to the degree they do in private schools. Our kids' schools had sports tours to Australia, music tours of Africa, etc. And in addition, you get bags more confidence from a school like that. So, if you're serious, then I'd highly recommend it. They will all take foreigners, you don't have to worry about that. You are probably looking at anywhere between £10k and £30k a year. The most expensive ones will typically be in the south.
[My son went to a school called Barnard Castle School - they are well known for their rugby though not everybody plays it - and he absolutely loved it. He's now a lawyer with a big firm in London, and he still has loads of friends from school. However, my husband went to a school called Felsted - over 40 years ago - and he hated it!]
Edit:
To answer your question re the other website, e.g. -
1 Brighton College Co-ed 17,184 29,184
This means that Brighton College takes both boys and girls, and the day pupils pay £17,184 per year, while the boarders pay £29,184 per year. You normally pay per term, so you pay three times a year (e.g. boarders would pay nearly £10k three times a year).
You have to buy a lot of uniform too, e.g. football kit, rugby kit, cricket kit, or if you play golf etc. It depends what you want to join in.
(I don't understand why my answer doesn't seem to be there, here it is again then...)
It does depend a lot on where you want to be in England, and how much your dad is willing to spend ;)
It also depends what it is that you want to benefit from. Take a look at some of the schools below, and if you are interested in them then you can either email them some questions, or ask for a prospectus.
I had two kids and both went to boarding schools - but they were day pupils so they came home every day. A lot of children will do that, although it depends on the school as to how many. We had a girl and a boy, so they went to different schools, we chose to send to single sex schools, but you don't have to do that if you don't want to. You do find that girls do better at all girls' schools, but boys do better at coeducational ones, apparently the female influence helps the boys whereas the male influence holds the girls back.
You get a lot of 'extra' education when you go to a school like this. They have far more opportunities to do music, sports, travel. I know that free state schools do a certain amount of that too, but not anywhere to the degree they do in private schools. Our kids' schools had sports tours to Australia, music tours of Africa, etc. And in addition, you get bags more confidence from a school like that. So, if you're serious, then I'd highly recommend it. They will all take foreigners, you don't have to worry about that. You are probably looking at anywhere between £10k and £30k a year. The most expensive ones will typically be in the south.
[My son went to a school called Barnard Castle School - they are well known for their rugby though not everybody plays it - and he absolutely loved it. He's now a lawyer with a big firm in London, and he still has loads of friends from school. However, my husband went to a school called Felsted - over 40 years ago - and he hated it!]
Edit:
To answer your question re the other website, e.g. -
1 Brighton College Co-ed 17,184 29,184
This means that Brighton College takes both boys and girls, and the day pupils pay £17,184 per year, while the boarders pay £29,184 per year. You normally pay per term, so you pay three times a year (e.g. boarders would pay nearly £10k three times a year).
You have to buy a lot of uniform too, e.g. football kit, rugby kit, cricket kit, or if you play golf etc. It depends what you want to join in.
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