In December 2004 Mr Harrison & Mrs Chapman led a party of 13 students from years 9 & 10 on the second German exchange to Harpstedt in North Germany. Harpstedt is a small place - similar in many ways to Market Drayton - so the students were not overwhelmed as they might be in a big city.

During the week-long stay we attended a variety of lessons, visited the Christmas market at Bremen and went bowling. Staff participated in a local tradition - the Kohlfahrt (don't ask) - while students had parties over the week-end.

The German students will return in September 2005 and the third group of English students will head out in December the same year.

	The host school in Harpstedt
Monday morning and we are greeted by the school band and interviewed for the school radio. Speeches are made.	Click above for the Harpstedt School website	Jonny Hardy and Chris Edwards relax between bowling successive strikes.
Despite the cold, we brave the streets of the Bremen Christmas market.	Click above for the Harpstedt town website	Bremen Christmas market by night
Bremen Christmas market by light	Mr Harrison strikes a pose...	...Geert has to copy his idol.
Mrs Chapman's ghostly reflection on the bus as the school turns out to wave us goodbye.