Teachers

We have had a student from Maldova come to our school for 14 or so weeks while he is in England for an operation to replace a third of his skull. when he was younger he was walking through a field and due to a very poor electricity grid set up he was hit by an electic arc from overhead wires when a flock of birds near him flew off...freaky hey...but it blew a third of his skull off and he wasn't expected to live and he did...now thats freaky. He has been sponsored by a charity that our food tech teacher, Sue, has a friend who is part of it and they all organied to get him sent over to fix him up. Where he lives in Maldova is apparently extremly impoverished, I was told Maldova was one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. His interpeter Irina (lady in the middle in grey) saya she gets paid £66 a month and has to live in a two bedroom place with her parents and brothers family of 4 so that they can live, since the electicity bill itself is £100 a month. Andrei, is in yr 7 and lives in a dodgy room with his mother and sister... they are all so nice. Irina had to go back home at the end of the term because her visa would only let her stay a little while, Andrei will have a new interpreter next term, tho he is eagerly picking up English. Irina has told me that i have to come over and see her when i get the chance to go to Eastern Europe...i think that is a tops idea, i got along with her very well! i'm sad to see her go so soon!

In the bottom picture from left to Right is Christina (French) Sue (Food Tech) Irina (Interpreter) Pipper (ICT) and ME. in the top picture Andrei got an award for Chess..his new favourite game along with snooker, he tells me.