Letters of thanks from Dr Kay Kimber, Head of English at Brisbane Girls Grammar School in Australia doing research in the UK while based at the University of Reading, who visited our school last month.
Dear Girls and Boys,
This is the email I promised some of you when I visited your classroom earlier in October. I am now back in Australia and wanted you to know how impressed I was with your classroom behaviour, your interest and the work that you achieved. When I visited you, you were so responsible with making Grandparents' Day such a success and working on your KON articles. You were all so friendly towards your visiting Aussie. I was so lucky to have been able to visit your lovely school and meet so many of you. I am attaching some photographs to this (and a second email, in case the files are too big for one email). Two of you asked me for a photograph of a kangaroo (I think it was Brogan and Sam). Well, the photo below is of a wallaby with her baby in her pouch - you can just see it peeking out. A friend of mine has 15 acres of bushland and the wallabies hop up close to her house to graze on her lawn.
I hope KON is continuing to be heavily involved in your community and carrying on your good work.
Kind regards to you all.
Kay Kimber
Dear Martin
Thank you so very much for your hospitality in having me to spend a day at Cheslyn Hay, your making me so welcome in the school and organising the room at "The Hedgehog", taking me to attend your dress rehearsal for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and for the delicious Chinese meal, for guiding me across the M6, and for arranging/accompanying me on the visit to Cooper Perry. All that you did was beyond my expectations and very much appreciated. I really loved my day at Cheslyn Hay and found the whole experience so refreshing. I was impressed by the KON team, the happy feeling in all the classrooms, and the Grandparent's Day luncheon. I cannot thank you enough for all that you did to make my time at Cheslyn Hay and Lichfield so memorable. I hope that one day you will be able to visit Australia and that I will be able to repay your hospitality and kindness.
Well, I'm now back at work. I arrived home on 15th October and hard at work again on 18th. At present I am assessing the Year 12 students' final oral presentations based around their PowerPoint presentations of creative ideas for an advertising campaign for an important social/environmental issue. The Yr 12s finish in 4 weeks' time and then its preparation for 2005. The rest of the school does not finish till December 3.
Martin, I hope that all the performances for "Cuckoo" were packed and that the production continued to be a great success. It was such a polished performance when I had the privilege of seeing it at the dress rehearsal. I loved it. I also hope that all your heating problems were sorted out and that your ankle/foot is much healed. On my long flight home, I kept thinking about how painful it must have been for you going back from Greece.
I'm going to be sending you a flurry of little emails here, attaching the photos I took at Cheslyn Hay. The one below captures something of the busy-ness that is KON. I was besotted with the littlies and their lunch trays, hence the second photo. The second email will be a little letter to the Year 6s I spent time with - Brogan and Sam's class. The third has a couple of photos from Grandparents' Day. Maybe you could get copies of the photos to the grans. I know that Nonna was keen to see hers.
All best wishes,
Kay .
