Grade 6 England Experience 2015

Parent Information Evening

14th April

Additional Information

ZISLinks / Principal’s Blog

•This presentation•Detailed Itineraries •Contact details

Advisory/Grade 6 Assembly

•Travel itinerary and students expectations•Emergency procedures•Booklet and respects for others (Merry manners)•Rooming•Meal choices

Any additional questions•Advisor•Louise Bergoo, team leader – lbergoo@zis.ch or call 0041 77 449 92 76

Grade 6 England Trip – Quick FactsGroup A – Mrs Paulson +4 Advisory Groups: Browning (Mernick), Huber, Gilfry and Allen Erika Lang

Group B – Mrs. Bergoo +4 Advisory Groups: Jutzi, Kelly, Smallbone and Basler Jo Steffen

•Students will check in with their advisor at the airport.

MONDAY June 1•Group A (Paulson) – Meet at airport at 11:00•Depart Zurich 13:10 – Arrive London Heathrow 14:05 (flight BA713 )

•Group B (Bergoo) – Meet at airport at 06:00•Depart Zurich 07:45 – Arrive London City Airport 08:25 (flight BA8760)

FRIDAY June 5 •Group A (Paulson) - Arrive Zurich 17:20 (Flight BA716)•Group B (Bergoo) – Arrive Zurich 18.50 (Flight BA718 )

•ALL students must be collected from the airport.

London itinerary

• Guided tour of Westminster & the West End, seeing Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, and the Houses of Parliament

• Musical, Matilda• Waterstone’s bookshop- Europe’s largest bookshop • The Natural History Museum • British museum• Stonehenge• Roman Baths• Bath Abbey• Greenwich village (only Group B)

Detailed itineraries will be posted on the principal’s blog.

Hotels

• BATH

Bath YMCA,

International House,

Broad Street Place,

Bath, BA1 5LH, England

Tel: 01225 325 900

• LONDON

Royal National

Bedford Way London,

WC1H 0DG, United Kingdom

+44 20 7637 2488

Packing List• Passport and Auslander permit• English money: 35 pounds sterling for lunches, plus spending money (60 pounds

sterling recommended, but use your discretion)• Changes of clothing for 4 days• Warm sweater/fleece• Comfortable walking shoes• Hooded jacket or raincoat• Toiletries and toothpaste/toothbrush• Sun hat and sunscreen• Small backpack• Pencils/pens• Clip board • Reading books• Lunch for Monday (but no drink in the lunch pack – airport security)• A refillable water bottle• Medication (if necessary)

Phones and other electronics

• Mobile phones will be allowed. However, students are not to use them to make calls or send texts to other students. While students may receive calls from home ( call before breakfast – not after evening activities), they will not be allowed to call home without a teacher’s permission.

• If students are planning to use their phone to take pictures they will need to bring their chargers with them. A 3 prong adapter is needed for chargers.

• No electronic games or computers are permitted. No external speakers may be taken.

• Please note that students are responsible for all of their belongings during the trip.

ZISLinks InformationMedication•If your child needs to take medication during the field trip and you would like the chaperone to give the medicine to your child than please send the required medication to the nurse at least a week before the trip in a transparent bag with instruction and if possible the original container of the medicine•If your child needs to be reminded to take the medicine during the Field trip than please send a quick note to the nurse as well. Email: elang@zis.ch•Please check Personal Information is up to date on Parent Portal

Money

•Your child will need to buy lunches. We suggest that you allow approx. 35 pounds for lunches and any additional snacks and drinks. The students could bring a packed lunch from home for the Monday. Your child could also bring some money to buy souvenirs. All money should be changed into British pounds before the trip; there will not be an opportunity to change currency during our visit.

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