EDUCATION
Students from four local schools are returning to normality after a once-in-a-lifetime trip to visit sister schools in China at the end of Term 3.
Twenty-seven pupils from Pigeon Mountain Primary, Wakaaranga, Hingaia Peninsula and Bucklands Beach Intermediate participated in the educational and cultural exchange, travelling to Ningbo, South Shanghai in Eastern China.
“Auckland has a longstanding connection to the city of Ningbo, having established a sister-city relationship in 1998. Schools in the two cities have been working together since 2013 as part of an education association. These visits are an extension of this cooperation, and provide students and teachers with the opportunity to learn alongside one another and share in cultural experiences,” says Ian Dickinson, principal of Pigeon Mountain Primary School who accompanied the students, along with three other principals and four teachers from the other schools in the travelling party.
“The students on the visit were wonderful ambassadors for their respective schools and demonstrated the values and behaviours we were hoping to see from them. They formed some wonderful relationships with their home stay families, and embraced all that the visit had to offer,” says Ian.
