GERMAN DEPT NEWS GERMAN EXCHANGE 2023

By Mr Mehrabian

This year, Cherwell has celebrated our 42nd Anniversary with the Peutinger Gymnasium in Augsburg, Bavaria. German students came to Oxford in March and as I write this piece, we are nearing the end of our very enjoyable time here in Germany. In addition to spending a day in school observing lessons, we have spent time in Munich, visited Nördlingen with its medieval town walls in the central part of the Romantic Road. Another highlight has been travelling into Southern Bavaria and hiking around the lake, known as Alpsee. The adrenaline junkies amongst the group, particularly enjoyed sprinting up to the summit of Bearfalls and then travelling back down on the Alpsee toboganns- the longest toboggan ride (3km) in Germany!

If your son/daughter is in Year 9 and studying German next year in Year 10, we hope to launch the German exchange in September and can highly recommend the German exchange experience to your child. The experience represents the best chance we offer for our students to practise and improve their German language skills.

My thanks to Mrs F Shelley and Miss S Raymond- Barker for supporting me with our return visit to Germany and well done to all of the Year 10 students taking part in the exchange!

Dr Andrea Feucht- German Language Assistant

After over 10 years of service, our German Language Assistant is leaving us. We are incredibly indebted to Andrea for supporting so many students over the years, both at KS4 and KS5. Students have benefitted from Andrea's wealth of experience and our students’ ability to speak German has greatly improved thanks to Andrea's brilliance, of getting the most out of our students - some of these students have then gone on to study German at university.

Danke schön Andrea and we wish you all the very best for the future!