Jan 29
Culford School, a well known institution with an excellent reputation within the UK, will start its Summer Courses once again on the month of July of 2010. The courses include a 4 week summer school programme that is provided by Alexander’s International on the grounds of Culford School and brings students from all over the world to experience the state of the art in language learning.
Travelling is a wonderful way to expand the horizons of our minds and keep ourselves open to new learning opportunities. The courses at Culford combine the very best of language learning with a slew of activities to keep the students energized and engaged. All students can enjoy full day study excursions that are held every Wednesday, when are taken to various landmarks and cities of East England such as Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich. These trips are an opportunity to discover new places, have fun and, most of all, learn. Before each journey the students study the details of the area they will visit and after the trip they are required to do several follow-up tasks for their classes.
Anyone looking for an excellent summer school UK can check out the many options that the Alexander’s International courses from Culford School offer. There are several ranges of fees that can accommodate most people’s needs and the packages also include meals and accommodation. Those who want to take care of every detail in one go can ever arrange for transportation both from and to the airport. You can find more information at Skola’s website at http://www.skola.co.uk/
Safety First
The wellbeing of its students is the number one concern at Culford, one of the most prestigious summer schools England has to offer. Culford School makes sure that its students are in a secure and friendly environment so that everyone can focus on improving their skills and enjoying their stay. While the mood is relaxed and friendly, the school maintains close supervision of their students to make sure that they follow the school rules. The goal is to ensure the safety and well being of the students as well as make sure that they can achieve the maximum benefit from their stay. In the case of any medical problem, there is a school nurse available all hours of the day. Transportation is available should it be needed to deal with emergencies.
Jan 27
The International Community School (or ICS for short), one of the most acclaimed international school London has to offer, has put its Walk on Wednesday program to work involving all of their Primary Years students. This new health promoting initiative works as follows: the school buses drop the students off at the top of Regent Park, the students are then joined by a group of ICS teachers and walk together to school.
This activity will be part of the ICS School Travel Plan which is a joint effort between the institution and Transport to London. The plan has the goal of encouraging more students to engage in regular walks and exercise all year long. The Walk on Wednesday initiative is also helping to alleviate the environmental impact of transportation for a crowded city such as London by reducing the CO2 emissions from public and private transportation.
The ICS is a renowned independent school London area that makes a point about working towards the promotion of a healthier life style and educating the children on the many benefits of regular physical activity.
A Pressing Need
Due to demographic studies conducted recently we can now see the true decline in physical activity on the younger population. Only half of children between the ages of 11 and 16 years walk regularly and most of them for only about 10 minutes per day. On average, children are walking far less today than they did 5 or 10 years ago. At the same time, childhood obesity has been continuously on the increase in past years, and has become a serious health concern in many western countries. While many people blame the increased number of indoor and sedentary activities (such as TV, computers and video games) for this, it was found that parental fear for the child’s safety while being outside has been a major catalyst to these problems.
Taking regular walks brings many benefits and it is a very good idea to start building the walking habit from an early age to ensure that kids incorporate daily exercise as part of their adult lives. As a rule of thumb, most kids can safely walk between 800-1000 metres per day, per year of age. Walking from fifteen to thirty minutes a day is a great routine for kids of school age.
Some benefits of walking regularly
- Helps to build muscles and maintain a healthy bone structure
- Helps children control their weight and prevents obesity problems
- Reduces levels of stress, sadness and anxiety (as all exercise does)
- Increases both flexibility and stamina
- Improves mental feats of concentration and memory retention
- Helps children sleep much better (as well as adults, to a certain degree)
Jan 13
It is many years since the world has seen a performer so startlingly creative, so adept at shock tactics and accomplished in the art of controversy as Lady Gaga.
Since she catapulted to fame with her single Just Dance in 2008, the theatrical singer has sold-out show tickets in minutes and rarely been out of the newspapers. And unlike many of her contemporaries, her excessive press coverage is not related to having a disastrous private life, drug addiction or series of relationships, but for her showmanship and eccentricity.
We have seen the singer giving away a lock of her hair with the deluxe limited edition of her album The Fame Monster. She has enacted a suicide on stage, performed in a giant bathroom on the X Factor and sung to the Queen of England in an Elizabethan ruff and 20 foot long rubber cape.
Real name Stefani Germanotta, Gaga has rolled about in a ‘Chanel wheelchair’, posed naked with Kanye West in pictures by David Lachapelle and bought 80 pizzas for waiting fans queuing at her album signing in Los Angeles. She seemed to revel in speculation that she is a hermaphrodite and broke chart records in America by becoming the first artist in the 17-year history of the Billboard Pop Songs countdown to score four number ones from the same debut album. Paparazzi, Just Dance, Poker Face and LoveGame all hit the top spot in record sales.
As if that was not enough to cram into a few short years, the American singer has collaborated with superstar Beyonce Knowles in her remix of Video Phone, appeared onstage with the Bolshoi Ballet dancers and worn outlandish creations including ‘firework boobs’, gyroscope headgear and a jeweled neck brace and studded crutches.
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