Introducing ourselves...

Presentation of our school

"Bernstein High"

by Damla and Cornelia

Our school’s name is “Bernstein High”. There are between 400 and 450 pupils. Bernstein High is a normal school; we have school from 8.00am to midday then we go to eat in the canteen. Next we return to school from 1.30pm to 4.30pm but Tuesdays it’s till 5.30pm instead of 4.30pm. We have school on Saturdays morning too that’s why we don’t have school on Wednesday.

We stay at Bernstein High for four years. The first years, we can begin to do more sports than the other people if we want. It’s the UNSS (Union National des Sports Scolaire). The Second year, we can begin to learn Latin. And the third year, we can have two hours more English in the European Section where we learn the history of English countries. Our school is cool, dynamic with a very good atmosphere.

Presentation of the European Section Class

In our class, we are 24 pupils. We often work in groups and we discover lots of things about English-speaking countries. In the European Section we work less than in the other subjects, for example last year we did presentations about the British Isles, it was funny and every group did one of the British countries. Then we talked about Australia and some of us (seven pupils) had an Australian pen friend. Australia is as beautiful a country as British Isles. When we did Australia we did Dreamtime stories with an Aboriginal drawing or a Travel Brochure of the states or territories of Australia. And this year we are going to work on America and Great Britain because we are going to go to London and Paris with you. When Mrs Stenger said that we could have English pen friends we were very happy because maybe we will have new friends!

So, we like our class because all hours we have a good time!