Reading postcards from Rossett

Yesterday morning, when I met students of class I A they immediately asked me if I had the postcards from their English friends and ... of course I had! So we had our lesson first, then I showed them some pictures about the school in Rossett (St. Peter's school) and at last I gave them the postcards and ....
have a look at the photos here!

While reading the postcards students asked me the meaning of some words they didn't know and they also wanted to know what kind of sport Netball is. As I wasn't sure on how to answer, I searched the net and here is a link with info on this sport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball

And to learn more about this sport you can click here: More on netball

A visit to St. Peter's school in Rossett

As I told all my students I went to the United Kingdom on Holiday. I've been visiting several interesting places among which Liverpool, Chester and Rossett. All of you know Liverpool and maybe Chester too but not everybody knows about Rossett.
Here is a map showing my journey and the places visited.

Rosett is a small town near Chester where St. Peter's school is. This is school is the very same school we have started a postcard project with. So January 4th I had the chance to visit it and to meet the head teacher Mrs Helen Pritchard, the teachers Mr Lloyd and Mrs Bayliss, some other teachers and all the students. They were all very happy and I was happy too to meet them. I gave them the cards and a present my students prepared and they gave me the postcards. We had the time to talk a little bit about our school systems and the English pupils asked me some questions I answered happily. It has really been a very nice visit, all the people warmly welcomed me and I felt as if I knew them ever since. I hope we can continue with our project even in the next years. 

Here is a short presentation of my visit to St. Peter's school, look and enjoy!

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Postcards project

Last week students of class IA began their postcards project. 

The idea started this summer when I contacted the head-teacher of St. Peter's School in Rossett, Wales,(http://www.stpeters-pri.wrexham.sch.uk/index.html) and she accepted to start this new adventure!

So at the beginning of the school year I told about the project both to our head-teacher, to the parents and my students and .. here we are writing!

The main aims of this projects are:

- to create contacts with European students;

- to know the culture of an other country;

- to improve the use of English as a Foreign Language; 

- to create real chances to use English; 

- to write postcards (using pens and paper!) to discover the pleasure of talking about oneself, of knowing other people, of receiving postcards;

- to develop friendship between schools;

- to motivate students in learning English;

- to share ideas and experiences between students and teachers from different countries.

This is what we did to start the activity:


1. We decided what to write on the postcards and I wrote it on the blackboard.

2. The students copied the postcard prompt on their exercise book.












3. They wrote the postcards using their pencil because they didn't want to send them with mistakes!

4. When they checked the postcards with the teacher they copied them again using the pen and ...

here they are, ready to be sent!

I want to thank Mrs Helen Pritchard and all the teachers of the school in Rosett to have made this experience possible.

And of course thank you to all the English and Italian students as well!