(Photos and text by Per Svangren)
Each year our seventh graders from Botkyrka Friskola go on a school trip to Scotland. We spend one week there, starting with half the week in Edinburgh and the other half in Inverness, up in the north. Though we are in Scotland, we have literally taken our school "on the road". There is still a lot of school work to be done, but most importantly the main focus is to speak English.
It is so fantastic to see how our pupils can manage after seven years of studies in English. They can handle the language and say, and understand nearly everything.
What do we do? We visit a lot of museums, we do what we call A City Orientation, which is a scavenger hunt to discover for ones self Edinburgh. The most important thing is to find all the places where the answers are.
In the evenings we do a lot of fun things, movies, musicals, ghost walks and so on.
The students work in groups and have one teacher with them, but the teachers are not suppose to be active, just follow and support and take care of the money the group has for food and activities. A visit to a Scottish school are in order, as well as, a few captured moments looking for Nessie in Loch Ness.
While exploring Scottish cities and countryside, trying our the Scottish food is also a part of the agenda. All in all we have the greatest time.
