TRAVEL AWARD COMPETITION, 2027
FOR STUDENTS OF GYMNÁZIUM BOŽENY NĔMCOVÉ
PRIZE 25,000 Kc
The prize for the 2027 UK travel competition will be 25,000 Czech crowns.
The competition is open to Gybon students in the school years Quarta, Quint and Sexta 2026-2027 and will be organised by Mr. Pavel Adámek.
The aim of the competition is to enable the winner to travel to England/the UK any time between the start of May and the end of August 2027 and there to speak, listen to and understand English.
The judging panel this year is Julian Wilde, former Principal of King Edward and Queen Mary School in Lytham, UK who has visited Gybon this October and many times over the past 30 years to teach English.
Johana Macková was the winner of the first travel award at Gybon in 2011. She gained a first-class degree at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland and is a previous British and Czech Skimo champion,
Johana now runs Uphill, her own sports clothing shop in Trutnov.
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines visited Gybon in 2014 to give her personal account of her escape by kindertransport from Prague as a Winton child in 1939. She continues to promote links of every kind between the Czech Republic and the UK.
Full information about the travel competition will be announced to students by the Headmaster Mr. Pavel Lehar and all the English teachers at Gybon on November 15th.
Details of how to prepare an application will be available for all students and posted on the school’s website.




























