Thursday 18th Feb

Well this is our last field trip day so again lots of exciting adventures for the exchange students. Today we started with a tour of the Washington DC monuments, of which there are a few!  This was in place of the planned visit to the White House which we unfortunately did not get permission to go on...

We started with the FDR monument:

Closely followed by the Martin Luther King memorial, Washington memorial, and then my personal favourite the Lincoln Memorial.

 

As we had missed out on our White House visits we decided to go and have a photo opportunity there too! As always the students were really well behaved and a credit to the school. We have been blessed in the second half of the week with great weather in terms of sunshine but very cold...

 

 

We finished the day at the 'Newseum' not a typo! Which is a museum all about the news. We started off with a lesson about the President and the media which the students engaged well with before having to operate as 'spin doctors' for the President.

 

 

 

The Vietnam and 9/11 section were particularly thought provoking, the Pulitzer award winning photos were also amazing but quite shocking at times. We have seven lessons in school tomorrow so back to business with a bump. I will add some pics of the students in classes tomorrow.

 

That's all for now

 

 

Mr Scouse