Milé studentky, milí studenti,

rádi bychom vyhlásili soutěž o nejlepší název školního časopisu v angličtině. Na Vaše návrhy se těšíme do konce ledna 2013. Odevzdávejte je u Mgr. Novákové. Nejlepší budou odměněni.

Milé studentky a studenti,

Nabízíme vám další z oblíbených školních cest do  Velké Británie. Tentokrát je v plánu navštívit národní parky Anglie a Walesu. Projedeme obě části Velké Británie a zavítáme do přírody i městeček, vydáme se též tak trochu po stopách Harryho Pottera, protože navštívíme věhlasnou školu Eton, kde mimo jiné studovali oba princové královské rodiny, William a Harry.

Finally my dream came true - I was onboard the airplane which was going to Edinburgh. I was heading north - my first independent and stand-alone journey for such a long time. During the flight I was thinking about my host family, school and generally about my stay in a foreign country. Although I was so excited, I had doubts about my speaking abilities in English. However all fears disappeared, like the clouds above Edinburgh, as the plane landed at the airport and sunny weather greeted me warmly. What a miracle it was ! Then an officer at the passport control wished me a good luck and a pleasant stay in Scotland. I remember that I stood in front of the arrivals hall as happy as the day is long. The adventure had begun. The taxi driver from South Africa gave me a lift to my hostfamily. Mr. and Mrs. Brown had been already waiting on the doorstep when we arrived. They welcomed me nicely and showed me their marvellous house with small well-tended garden. I lived in Portobello which is a beach resort located three miles to the east of the city centre of Edinburgh. There was a promenade fronting on to the wide sand beach – a perfect place for beach volleyball, running or just relaxation.

LENKA IN LONDON My eight day trip to England began very badly because, whilst I was on the long coach journey from Prague to London, my pen friend Becky in Bristol suddenly called to say that she would not be able to host me or meet me – she did not explain why. She just suggested that I call her friend Edward, a student at Reading University, who was staying in London. I could hardly believe it - it was a big emergency for me and all my plans were suddenly completely destroyed. However I decided to call Edward and when I arrived in London, he was waiting for me at the Victoria bus station. He had never met anyone from Czech Rep and he was very interested about Prague and life in my country. I was happy and relieved to meet him there and Edward helped me with advice about one good cheap hotel. I booked this via the internet, left my luggage in left-luggage office and, because it was a sunny day, decided to go with Edward to Greenwich Park.

SEVENTEEN YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP 2011 marks seventeen years of unbroken partnership between the Lytham schools and the Gymnázium Boženy Nĕmcové in Hradec Králové, the principal city of eastern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It was in October 1994 that Julian Wilde, Headmaster of King Edward VII School, Lytham, took up an invitation from Vladislav Král, the Headmaster of the Gymnázium Boženy Nĕmcové to visit his school . From that single day visit and the very warm welcome received that the partnership between the two schools began. In the spring of 1995 Cyril Wildon and Gordon Grundy, Heads of Art at the then separate King Edward’s and Queen Mary Schools, took a group of four art students and an exhibition of work by all the pupils of the Lytham Schools to Hradec Králové . Later the same year King Edward’s hosted the second leg of this exchange. Art students from Gybon, accompanied by English teachers Pavel Adámek and Milena Halková and art teachers Zuzana Vebersiková and Iveta Jalůvková, spent a week in Lytham.

I visited England for eight days at the start of August. I travelled with my friend Zdenek and we started our bus journey in Prague on Saturday afternoon. We arrived at Victoria Bus station at 5 am on Sunday. The Underground was not working so early, so we rested. During the morning we went to Richmond to meet our host family, the Rowleys – Alison, Mark and their two boys, Sam and Josh. They are very friendly people and we were glad that we met them. They invited us to have dinner with them every day and the food was very good. We had the opportunity to taste British cuisine and we especially liked the desserts. We saw the beautiful Kew Royal Botanic Gardens near the Rowleys’ home and each day until Wednesday we went into central London - after that we stayed in London, near Hyde Park.

This summer has seen a dream come true for a young GYBON student, thanks to our partnership with an English school 18 year old Johana Mackova flew to Britain as the winner of a special travel competition which marks 15 years of partnership between the Gymnazium Bozeny Nemcove and King Edward VII and Queen Mary School, Lytham on the north west coast of England Johana's prize of 10,000 Czech crowns (£400) took her first to Edinburgh for a three week English language course where she enjoyed a homestay with a local family. This was followed by ten days of solo hiking and wild camping along the 90 miles of the West Highland Way, culminating in an ascent of Ben Nevis.

Všichni naši studenti, kteří úspěšně zvládli školní část maturitních zkoušek, byli úspěšní i v části státní.

Blahopřeji!

Jan Štěrba

Při příležitosti 15letého partnerství škola King Edward and Queen Mary v Lythamu St. Annes na severozápadním pobřeží Anglie připravila pro studenty Gymnázia Boženy Němcové soutěž o cestovní stipendium v hodnotě 10 000 Kč. Finanční částku poskytli bývalí členové učitelského sboru KEQMS.