Netherlands Exchange - Neale-Wade Community College

Our Exchange is now part of Neale-Wade's Comenius Project

Exchange News

Second Year (Year 9) Exchange

Very important meeting for the 2nd Year exchange on Tuesday 15th June in MU2 at 1.10. If you cannot make it you must make sure you see Mr Field. Your partners will be arriving approximately 4.45pm on Wednesday 16th June.

Click here for the latest exchange letter.

Click here for ideas on how to be a good host.

First Year (Year 8) Exchange

Thank you very much for looking after your partners so well. I especially want to thank those who took more than one partner and who helped out entertaining thos eDutch students who didn't have partners.

You can now look forward to returning to the Netherlands with Ms Limm and Mr Ljungrren on 6th October .

Please can we have the next payment of money from those who it it is still due from before the end of this term .

Yvonne Verveij was a student from Anna van Rijn. She took part in the exchange a few years ago and a few years later returned to Neale-Wade to complete her international work experience. She has written a short article on her experiences on the exchange. To read it, and find out why you should take part in the exchange, click on the image of the stroopwafels and coffee.

Click on the photo below to see more photo's of the recent exchanges.

Exciting news for the Netherlands Exchange

Neale-Wade now runs TWO exchange programmes with Anna van Rijn School in the Netherlands. In the spring term year 8 students will get the chance to sign up for the exchange. They will choose a partner from the class matched up with us from Anna van Rijn School. In the summer their partner will visit us. We then go back to stay with our partners in the Netherlands in the Autumn term. In the following year the Dutch students come to visit us again in the summer term . The last part of the exchange is when we return to the Netherlands again in the autumn term. So it is a two year programme which means that the students end up really good friends. many of them continue their friendships long after the exchanges have finished including visiting each other during their holidays.

If you are a student on the exchange you can visit the forum to post and read message from other exchange students http://neale-wade.net/forum/

October 2008

It was very dark and very wet when the year 9 and 10 (and one year 7) students set off for the Netherlands on Wednesady 1st October. They travelled by coach to Harwich before a six hour ferry ride to The Hook of Holland. From there they drove to Nieuwegein, the town just outside Utrecht, where our partner school in the Netherlands, Anna van Rijn, is.

Over the next few days they visited Amsterdam, where they visited a science museum and the Anne Frank House and went to a farm where they took part in a variety of extraordinary games!

See the college blog for more details of each day's activities. Photos of this leg of the exchange can be seen here.

This time last year another group of Neale-wade students were doing the same trip. This group, all now in year 10, will be returning after half term for their final visit to the Netherlands. They will be taking part in an art project, with the opportunity for the best artists to win a "Golden ear Award", and some sporting events.

Some of this group of students have yet to collect the letters they need and return the money and slips to confirm they are going on the trip. They need to do this urgently. See Mr Field in MU2 or print off your own copy by clicking here.

Click on the photo below for more photo's of the October 2007 visit.

What is the Netherlands Exchange?

The exchange is a programme that involves students from a school in the Netherlands visiting us and our students returing to stay with them twice over a two year period.

Exchange 2008

26 year 8 students will be taking part in the first stage of the Netherlands exchange this summer. Our partners from Anna van Rijn will be arriving on Wednesday June 4th. We will be spending one day working on developing an anthem for the exchange and designing logos and flags for it. On the following day we will be visiting Upware environmental education centre and carrying out field study investigations and art work on plant and animal life. On Saturday the students will spend the day with their partners and families. Our Dutch friends will leave for home on Sunday morning.

Ms Harris will be co-ordinating this group on the exchange.

Click here for ideas on how to be a good host.

This group will be returning to The Netherlands in October. When they are there they will be investigating the life of Anne Frank through drama and visiting the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

20 year 9 students will be taking part in the third stage of the Netherlands exchange soon. Our partners from Anna van Rijn will be arriving on Wednesday June 11th. . On Thursday the students will be going to Cambridge Botanical Gardens to carry out an art investigation and on Friday we will be visiting Wisbech to carry out Geography work on the redevelopment of the Nene Waterfront.

Saturday will be a day spent with your family in whatever way you want to entertain your guest.

For a copy of the most recent letter click here.

For a copy of the September letter click here.

Click here for ideas on how to be a good host.

We will be returning to The Netherlands in November. When we are there we will be investigating the art work of Vincent van Goghby visiting the Kroller Muller Museum near Arnhem.

Most of the students in communication with their partners using e-mail, MSN and phones, as they have done every year since Neale-Wade joined the exchange programme. Last year, however, saw the launching of the Netherlands exchange online forum. This is part of the Neale-Wade forum but is accesible by all those students involved in the exchange, not just from Neale-Wade and Anna van Rijn but also all the other English schools invloved in the programme. This year there will be other students from Marshland, Bottisham and Swavesey taking part in the exchange. Each week a new topic will be discussed in the forum and it is hoped that it will become a very useful source of communication and information that will help everyone involved to get to know each other before we meet in June and keep in touch over the next two years of the exchange programme.

Keep checking the website or contact Mr M. Field for details.

May 2007

Designing a logo for the Netherlands Exchange - see the work completed at Neale-Wade on the summer 2007 exchange.

If you are a student on the exchange you can visit the forum to post and read message from other exchange students http://neale-wade.net/forum/

Saying goodbye at the end of the exchange -June,10th 2007. Click here to see more pictures.

October 2007 Trip

Wednesday: Leave Neale-Wade Arrive Anna van Rijn 6pm

Thursday: Visit to Amsterdam to see the Anne Frank House (http://www.annefrank.org/) and Nemo Science Museum.(http://www.e-nemo.nl/)

Friday: Visit a Dutch farm and traditional Dutch games.

Evening: DISCO at AVRC 8-11pm.

Saturday: Family day....

Sunday: Leave Anna van Rijn at approximately 1pm Arrive Neale-Wade 10.30pm.

A message to all the exchange families

I wanted to express my thanks for all the effort you made in giving our guests such a happy experience. I have had nothing but positive feedback about the whole exchange . Even those students who were quite homesick during their stay have survived due to the care you gave them. If you have had any problems or have any suggestions about how we can improve any aspect of the exchange please do contact me and let me know.

I am hoping to add photos of this year's exchange to the website so if you have any photos including those from family activities done in the evenings or on Saturday I would love to have copies of them. Also don't forget the forum at http://neale-wade.net/forum/ .

I hope that all the students are still excited and looking forward to going to meet up with their new friends again.. It should be a very valuable and enjoyable experience.

To make sure that we are all ready to travel please may I have the following items now brought in to me at school:

The second payment, which is £55 is due by July 13th. The final payment, of £50, will be due by Friday 14th September.
A photocopy of your child’s EHIC ( or bring in the original and I will photocopy it in school)..
A photocopy of the relevant pages of your child’s passport (or passport itself so that I can copy and return it). E111 The E111 form has now been replaced by the EHIC. Information can be found at
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=19100188&mediaId=19700175. If you apply online it should be returned to you within 7 days.
If your child does not have a valid passport now is the time to apply for one as it can take several weeks for applications to be processed and I would not like anyone to be disappointed and unable to go to the Netherlands because they didn't have a passport. You can find more information at http://www.ukpi.org/?gclid=CPf9o9bK14wCFQ5UEAodvh1UEw .

If any of these requests poses a problem do not hesitate to contact me so we can sort out a way to solve it.

Anna van Rijn's European connections

Neale-Wade is only one of several English and other European schools involved in exchanges with Anna van Rijn. Click on the Anna van Rijn logo to see thier connections page.

Or look at their links and european projects aby clicking the link below:

To encourage you to communicate I have set up a little quiz for you to do but you will need the help of your partners. E-mail your answers to me soon at Mr M. Field .

Click "ear" to go to the quiz.

Netherlands Exchange 2006

What is the Netherlands Exchange?

November 2006 Exchange

The 2006 Netherlands Exchange has now been completed. We have returned exhausted but happy from our visit to Anna van Rijn in Nieuwegein, near Utrecht. Thank you to all the parents and students who coped so marvellously with the extra early start and the stormy crossing. This painting by Willem van de Velde the Younger, which I saw in the Rijksmuseum, seems to catch the mood of the North Sea perfectly!

Click on the painting to go to the Rijksmuseum website. Click on this photo to see more contempory images of our exchange.

Please send me your photos and comments so I can add them to the website. Click here.

Thank you very much to all the Dutch families who have been so brilliant at welcoming and looking after our students. I'm sure they had a good time and enjoyed the educational and social side of the exchange.

June 2006 Exchange

To find out more about the June vist our Dutch partners made to us in June Click on the photo below

I hope that you are all emailing , phoning and writing to your partners.

To encourage you to communicate I have set up a little quiz for you to do but you will need the help of your partners. I still haven't received any completely correct answers so e-mail your answers to me soon at Mr M. Field .

Click "ear" to go to the quiz.

Netherlands Exchange 2005

To see photos and information about the 2005 Exchange click on the photo below.

Photos from the previous exchange have also been updated

Netherlands Exchange November 2004

Photos page 1 - examples of work

Photos page 2 - a day out!

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Click here to see more photos( from 2003).

Even more photos ( from 2004).

Still more photos ( from 2002).

I am keen to hear from students and parents who have been involved in the exchange in the past. I would love to know what you thought of your experiences especially if you have any ideas about how we can make the exchange even better in the future. Click here to send me your comments. If you have any photos of the exchange you would like me to post on the web site you can send those to me here as well.

Mr Field can also be found in H3 in the Geography Department and in DoE