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Students from Kidderminster’s Holy Trinity International School (HTIS) enjoyed an educational visit recently to Berlin, a visit undertaken jointly with King Charles 1 School as part of the schools’ History studies.
Travelling by coach from Kidderminster to the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, students had the opportunity to visit the Sachenhausen Concentration Camp as well as the Bell Tower of the 1936 Olympic Stadium before a lesson in German and a shopping expedition in the town to practise their newly acquired language skills.
HTIS Head of English, Mr Ernest Carwithen, stated: “Supporting student study through practical activity both enhances understanding and enjoyment of a subject.
“Berlin is a lively and multi-faceted city, aware of its past but also looking to the future. The Reichstag’s glass dome, designed by Lord Norman Foster, enables people to stand and walk above their political leaders in the chamber below – deeply symbolic for a city with Berlin’s past and for our students the essential message of the trip was to learn from history and to apply that learning to making a better future.”
A full programme of activities throughout their stay encompassed a visit to the Wansee Villa, where the Final Solution was agreed.
The students’ next planned trip is to Northern Germany to visit Husum, Kidderminster’s twinned town.
Issued: 14/09/2011
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