Thirty eight teachers from Oslo based Skoyen School in Norway will visit the Isle of Wight this Thursday 8th November.  They’ll visit Trinity, Ventnor and Downside Middle Schools where they will observe lessons and meet students and staff.

The group will be seeing how the individual schools work and how teachers deliver the curriculum during lessons. They also want to see how parents are involved in their children’s learning, how curriculum groups are organised and how the skills of individual pupils are identified and nurtured.

The teachers from the Skoyen School have over 550 pupils and teach students who are aged between 6 – 13 and is a relatively new school, having been set up in 1997. It continues to be part of a project aimed at making better use of IT in schools.

The visit comes in the months after teachers from China visited the Island to see how education here differs from their homeland.  In June, two staff from the Chongqing Renmin Primary School in the Chongqing region of China visited several schools over ten days.

Cllr Alan Wells is Isle of Wight Council’s Cabinet Member for Children & Young People and said:

“It is important schools on the Island maintain international links with colleagues all over the world. I know the visit of our Norwegian friends will be both informative and exciting for students and teachers at the schools involved”.

The group of 38 teachers will split up into three separate groups and visit the three schools Trinity, Ventnor and Downside simultaneously.

IWC Media.