File - S3 Trip to morocco

Name:
S3 trip to Morocco
Saturday 17th ~ Thursday
22nd May 2014
Form Class:
Luggage Allowance: Each passenger may take
one hand baggage.
One piece of hold luggage has been booked
per person, each piece should weigh no more
than 20kg.
Have you packed sensibly?
 Sturdy Shoes / cross-trainers
 Flip-flop
 Socks and underwear
 Light waterproof jacket / spring coat
 Hoodie / jumper / sweater
 T-shirts / tops
 Long sleeve shirts / tops
 Small backpack
 Towel(s) and toiletry
 Light trousers / jeans
 Sleepwear / comfortable indoor clothes
 Swimming costume – not a bikini
 Camera / mobile phone with camera
 Personal medication
 Snack and sweets
 Pen, pencil, notebook
 Hat, sunglass, sunscreen
 Games / football / Frisbee
 Pocket money (£50-100)
 Torch
 European plug
 Any books / stationary / Scottish cultural things as a gift for the local
schools
Group arrangement
Miss Tomitaka
Dr Greig
Ms McArthur
Gabrielle Barmack
Jackson Baillie
Lorna Fraser
Isabel Ralphs
George Baird
Elizabeth Barbour
Lauren Fraser
Haaris Bhatti
Kirsty Griffiths
Ava Hopkins
Animesh Mishra
Euan Johnston
Emily Smith
Gregor Yule
Daniel Boulton-Jones
Group arrangement is for: headcount, passport check, meeting
point, some group work.
Theme of the day:
Saturday 17th May 2014
07:45
08:00
12:30
Travel
Meet at Hutchesons’ Grammar School
21 Beaton Road
Coach transfer to Manchester airport with Allander
Travel
Manchester airport:
Terminal 1
Check in for flight: EZ1893
Meet at gate no _______________
Make sure you have some lunch before departure.
Arrive in Marrakech International Airport
18:15
( No time
difference Passport control: “I am on a school trip, I will be staying
with UK ) 4 nights and 5 days”
Fill in the Landing Card
Collect your bag
Change currency: Make sure you keep the transaction
receipt and note down the exchange rate below.
£1 = ____________________ Dirham
≈19:30
21:30
22:30
23:00
Coach transfer to the Hotel
Check in at Hotel:
Hotel Amine
Boulevard Abdelkrim Al Khattabi, Marrakech
Dinner
After dinner whole group meeting
Free time
Bedtime
Lights out
Notes / Summaries / Findings
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Theme of the day:
Sunday 18th May 2014
Adventure
Breakfast at the hotel
Pack and check out
Morning – Oasiria Water Park
Lunch
Make sure you pack your swimming things into your
day bag and change of clothes.
Don’t forget to apply sun cream regularly!
After
Lunch
After lunch, you will depart for Imlil, stopping at Moulay
Ibrahim for a 30 minute camel ride.
This ride will take you across the River Rerayha and
down through the valley returning to Moulay Ibrahim.
And then continue to Imlil Village and check into
Hotel Riad Imlil.
Evening
Dinner at the Hotel
Group meeting
22:30
Bedtime
23:00
Lights out
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Theme of the day:
Monday 19th May 2014
Breakfast at the hotel
Pack and check out
Morning – Visit to Imlil Valley School (7-14yrs)
Lunch
and
Ait Souka School (6 year olds)
Have your questionnaire booklet ready
Lunch
Mule trek to Armed Village.
Afternoon Tour of Armed Village (Family visits).
Evening
Dinner
Group meeting
22:30
Bedtime
23:00
Lights out
Geography
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Theme of the day:
Tuesday 20th May 2014
Education
Breakfast at the Gite
Morning
Visit to Armed Village School (7-14yrs)
After the school visit a moderate trek to outlying rural
villages to see the sorts of remote places in the
mountains where the children live.
A chance to meet Berber families in these remote
regions and see the difficulties the children face getting
to and from school.
Have your questionnaire booklet ready
Picnic lunch
Evening
Return to Armed Village late afternoon.
Dinner
The Amazigh Children of the High Atlas Mountains - Removing
barriers to learning:
In a village school perched on a hill on the edge of Morocco's Atlas
Mountains, Amazigh children are learning in their own language. The
Berber script - Tifinagh - is related to Egyptian hieroglyphics Morocco
has been dominated by Arabic culture since the seventh century when
the Arabs swept across the Middle East and North Africa in the name of
Islam. Now the original inhabitants of this country are reasserting their
influence. The word Amazigh means free or noble, but the Arabs called
the Amazigh people Berbers - or barbarians. Their language, however,
is still called Berber. The six-year-olds at the school are part of a
scheme to make Berber teaching compulsory in all schools in Morocco
within the next 10 years - a major step forward in recognising
Amazigh rights. Oral language Arabic is the official language in
Morocco - with French also widely used - even though 60% of
Morocco's population, some 18m people, is Amazigh. Berber is an
ancient language - some historians place it at 5,000 years old. It was
spoken across a huge swathe of North Africa before the Arabs came.
We are proud that our children can read and learn in our own language
Sadia Bussta Six-year-old Oussayn is proud of his new reading skills. "I
like learning in Berber because it's easier - it's what I speak at home,"
he says. Traditional North African communities converted to Islam
when the Arabs came and so were assimilated into Arab culture.
Despite the dominance of Arabic, the original language has not died
out. Berber dialects are still spoken from Morocco right across Algeria
and Tunisia to Egypt and further south in countries around the Sahara
desert.
Like most Amazighs in Morocco, families all speak Berber but they
can't write it because all their schooling was in Arabic.
"Now that the ministry of education here in Morocco has integrated our
language into public schools, we, as Amazighs will find our identity
again. We are proud that our children can read and learn in our own
language," says Sadia. Amazigh oral traditions - songs and poetry have been vital for keeping their language alive. Now these people are
once again learning to read and write in their own tongue.
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Theme of the day:
Wednesday 21st May 2014
Marrakech
Breakfast at the Gite
Following breakfast, please get ready for your departure
and return to Imlil Village, where you will meet your
transport for your return to Marrakech.
Lunch
time
En route to Marrakech as stop will be made at Asni
College (please note that today’s itinerary may be
subject to some adjustments depending on how long
you want to spend at the college).
Afternoon Continue to Marrakech. Short tour of Imperial
Marrakech (Medina).
Following this you will be taken to the airport for your
return flight.
Asni College:
Just an hour from Marrakech in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains is the
town of Asni. This small busy Berber town with its markets, shops and the
general Hospital provides much needed goods and services to the rural
inhabitants of the more remote mountain villages. The Asni College in the
town provides secondary education for the local children and also for the
children of the remote Berber villages in the High Atlas Mountains. These
children are housed in boarding schools provided by the Government for a
nominal fee. There are separate boarding schools for both girls and boys.
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Wednesday 21st May 2014 – Journey home
≈18:30
Marrakech International
airport
Check in for flight: EZ1893
Exchange your Dirhams
back into £ UK
Fill in the Departure Card
Password Control
Evening
Meet at gate no _______________
Make sure you have some dinner before departure.
Thursday 22nd May 2014 – Journey home
00:22
Arrive at Manchester airport
Passport control
Collect bags
≈01:00
Coach transfer to back to Glasgow with Allander Travel
Approxmate journey time is 4 hours.
Optional 30 min stop at a service station
05:00 05:30
Arrive back to Hutchesons’ Grammar School
Make sure you text/call your parents when we are
getting close to Glasgow.
After the trip you are expected to hand-in:
 The questionnaire booklet (paper copy)
 200~300 words on what you found out in Morocco and your
overall experience of this trip (word document)
 Five of your best photographs from the trip (e-mail)
Deadline is Monday 16th of June 2014.
Please e-mail your work to MissT: [email protected]
Code of Conduct
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follow the instructions of the group leaders and other supervisors
at airports stay in groups and be aware of security announcements
know which gate your plane is leaving from
follow all instructions given by flight crew
dress and behave sensibly and responsibly at all times
respect the house rules of the hotel/guest house.
show courtesy at all times, but particularly when dealing with members
of the public
look out for anything which might hurt and threaten you or anyone in
the group and tell the group leader about it as soon as possible.
be punctual at all times
carry emergency cards with you at all times
DO NOT
Carry out sightseeing on your own or wander off - No pupil should ever
be on their own.
MUST NOT
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consume, purchase or otherwise acquire alcohol
smoke
take unnecessary risks
visit bedrooms of opposite gender
engage in sexual activity
bring through customs any alcohol, tobacco, flick-knives, or fireworks
(even as presents for others)