15 Winter 2010 - Greenhead College
15 Winter 2010 - Greenhead College
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<strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
news<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> says ‘Benvenuti’ to Native Italians:<br />
July <strong>2010</strong> saw the arrival of 30 Italians and their<br />
English exchange partners in college. With the aim<br />
of improving their language skills, <strong>Greenhead</strong>’s<br />
Italian students took the guests on a tour of the<br />
Art department, Library, Science classrooms and<br />
Language Labs, narrating each area in Italian. The<br />
Italians asked students about college life, their<br />
subjects and Huddersfield, delighted to see young<br />
people studying their language.<br />
Over lunch, the students learnt about the guests’<br />
family and their town (near Lake Como) and shared<br />
information about their own family and day-today<br />
life. Later, the students also got the chance to<br />
listen to some traditional Italian music as the group<br />
transformed itself into a choir and rehearsed songs<br />
they would perform to their English partners that night.<br />
The visit was a great way for our Italian students to<br />
get more speaking practice and test out their skills on<br />
native Italians. By Hannah Mundell<br />
Enriching a Society of Debate:<br />
Whether social,<br />
political, or religious<br />
the subjects are<br />
always diverse,<br />
interesting and<br />
some controversial<br />
in the Debating<br />
Society. Term 1 saw<br />
that ‘the House<br />
believes that achieving socialism can only be gained<br />
through evolutionary means’,’ that cannabis should be<br />
legalised’,’ that God has neither a predominantly negative<br />
or positive effect on society’ and that ‘the decimating<br />
armed forces should be cut’. Always a diverse range of<br />
arguments presented to the society upon which opinions<br />
are split; there are four main speeches that are given to<br />
the ‘floor’ by two distinctive groups in which one argues<br />
for, the other against the chosen topic of that week. The<br />
Debating Society is an Enrichment course that develops<br />
confidence, knowledge and key skills in a way that is fun<br />
and entertaining, because no matter what your interests<br />
are there will always be a week where there is a topic that<br />
you can get involved in-but if not then there is always<br />
plenty of opportunity for you to suggest an argument/topic<br />
for a particular week. Throughout the year further topics<br />
are to be debated in the society such as ‘The Benefits of<br />
Democracy’, ‘University Tuition Fees’ and most importantly<br />
‘Peanut Butter: Crunchy or Smooth?’ By Megan Sunderland<br />
NEWSLETTER ISSUE <strong>15</strong> <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
Paris: Business and Pleasure<br />
During PaWs<br />
week <strong>2010</strong>,<br />
Business<br />
students were<br />
given the<br />
opportunity to<br />
undertake a<br />
four day project<br />
which firstly<br />
took us to<br />
Kent where we<br />
visited Shepherd<br />
Neame,<br />
‘Britain’s Oldest<br />
Brewer.’ This<br />
was in order<br />
to experience<br />
and appreciate<br />
not only a<br />
productive Pictured are the PaWs week <strong>2010</strong> Business students.<br />
element of a<br />
business but also its history, the overall structure of the business,<br />
and product marketing. We then travelled to France where we visited<br />
a glass factory, Cristal d’Arques, which allowed us to grasp an<br />
understanding of both a working environment and again, appreciate<br />
the complexity behind their production as well as learn about the<br />
business’ roots and background.<br />
The opportunity to visit these businesses allowed us to utilise the<br />
knowledge that we have gained from our AS Business/Economics<br />
courses and adapt it to a real life business situation.<br />
Whilst in Paris we were also able to appreciate the mind blowing<br />
architectural brilliance of the Eiffel Tower which, since being opened to<br />
the public in 1889, has welcomed over 200 million visitors.<br />
During the four days, we feel we learnt a great deal about extremely<br />
diverse businesses as well as being given the opportunity to appreciate<br />
some of the most prestigious landmarks in France. We valued the<br />
project and knew that we were taking a lot more knowledge away with<br />
us from this experience than we ever imagined possible.<br />
By Chantelle Waller<br />
“World Challenge to Peru”<br />
During the<br />
summer<br />
two teams<br />
of students<br />
departed on a<br />
World Challenge<br />
expedition to<br />
Peru. During<br />
the trip, they<br />
trekked along<br />
the famous<br />
Inca Trail all the<br />
way to Machu Pictured are a student team with some of the local children in<br />
one of the villages which the party camped in.<br />
Picchu, as<br />
well as visiting Lake Titicaca to help build a community<br />
library on one of the islands. After the hard work was over,<br />
relaxation was spent white water rafting and relaxing at<br />
the beach. A great time was had by all! By Paul Holden<br />
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