Girl's school Roedean

I researched British girl's school which is Roedean. It has senior School and Junior School.


*history*

In 1885, Lawrence family established Roedean school in Brighton. Theresa Lawrence who is the youngest sister and Katherine Margaret Earle sailed to South Africa with the intention of establishing second Roedean school.



*location*

Senior school locates in Brighton and the scene looks like a chalk. Brighton's population is 200,000 and there are known for the biggest resort in UK. From the London to Brighton, it takes 50 minutes by train. Roedean locates eastern edge of Brighton. It reached 15 minutes from the Brighton station.


*education system*

Roedean has three educational systems. First is Lower School which are 11-12 years old. Subjects are Art, History, Biology, Latin, French,Dance, Classical studies, Mathematics, Drama, English, Sport and so on.

Second, middle school is 13-15 years old students. Middle school is the most important period in their development. Students begin preparation for GCSE(General Certificate of Secondary Education). It means the examinations to graduate school. This three years are so important for them because they have to make independent study habits and to take more personal responsibility for their own work. This term help for them to be good adults for future.



Finlay is sixth form and the age is over 16 years old. Sixth form students are treated for adults. They live own boarding house. Their activity is high level to understanding of the way the world works.






*Reference*

http://www.roedean.co.uk/

http://www.roedeanschool.co.za/

Oxbridge

Oxbridge means University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. Both universities are very traditional and they have long history. Last year, Cambridge was 800 year anniversary.


In UK, public school and private school mean opposite other countries. In generally, public school is low costs image and private school is so expensive and rich people. On the other hand, public school in UK is rich, gentleman, and smart. Actually, most of this school students are so rich and they go to so famous university like Oxbridge. In addition, it is boarding school. UK's public schools are Westminster school, Eton collage, Harrow school, Rugby school and Winchester collage. Winchester is the most oldest collage in UK. It founded in 1382 in Hampshire in Winchester. These are all men's school.


*University of Oxford*


Oxford is the oldest university in England. It constructed in 11 century and very traditional. 47 Nobel laureate and 25 prime minister and over 50 Olympic player graduated Oxford.

This university is known for the top level school in the world. Times Higher World University rankings always record from second to five for Oxford. The entrance examination is the most difficult such as University of Cambridge. It located in Oxford city. This town is located the North of England and it takes for an hour by train from London.

Oxford is composed 39 college and it has over 16000 students. The students who come from overseas are 10 percent. Some of the collage students have to wear Formal Hall after dinner. This habit is unusual. Oxford has many unusual habit like this. For example, when people take the entrance examination, they have to wear white shirt and black bottom or skirt, and men have to wear jacket and gown. In addition, the library which is Bodleian libraryis the largest in the world and all of books which published in England are here.

*University of Cambridge*

In 13 century, scholars who escaped from Oxford constructed Cambridge university. Peter house is the oldest collage and it was constructed 1284. Over 47 Nobel laureates and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and John Maynard Keynes graduated this University. In addition, 2009 is 800 years anniversary.

How to go to Cambridge is easy. We take British Rail from King's Cross station or Liverpool Street station in London. It takes an hour and a half. Cambridge compose 31 collages. The Times Higher World Education Supplement records second. The first is Harvard University in the US.

Cambridge is opposition with Oxford. They often hold friendly match. Especially, boat race is very famous. It is hold at Thames river in London in spring.

*opinion*

I was surprised that public and private meanings are different. I confused the first. If I go to UK, I am careful to use wrong meaning.

Classes.

British Society has three classes. These are called Upper Class, Middle Class and Working Class. Upper Class is so wealthy people and only 2~3 % of British people, and Middle Class people is over 20% , and Working Class is remain.

But in fact, they can divide more detail like below.

1, Upper Class

This class is so wealthy like Royal family, politicians. This class compose gentle and royal and most of them are landowners. So, they don't need to work because they can live only land income.

2,upper middle class

Senior bankers, top businessman, top lawyers



3, Middle Class

This class compose bourgeoisie and expert. Experts are doctor, lawyer, architect, and artist. In addition, all members are white color people.

4, lower middle class

Office workers, small shopkeepers



5, Working Class

They get bread to work themselves and they tend to work after they graduate junior high school. In addition, their English are different another two classes. Upper Class people use Queen's English, Middle Class people use BBC English and Working Class use Cockney English.

6, skilled working class

Electricians

7, unskilled working class

Cleaners

8,under class

Homeless


*Reference*
http://www13.ocn.ne.jp/~uk_fan/jpage/library/lb_q006.htm

English Breakfast

It is said English food is too much volume. These are English Breakfast. But a little special and it's so gorgeous. Mostly, it is more easier in normal day.

This is fresh fruits juice and a few kind of fruits. In addition, people eat yogurt or serial.
I saw English men who bring many serials at the hotel in Yokohama. Maybe the hotel's break fast baking is Japanese food.
They add much milk and fruits jams.

This is main English break fast. The menu is bacon, sausage, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes and scrambled egg. Sometimes people eat soy beans.

This is triangle toast and sunny-side up eggs(medamayaki) . Most of people eat toast with butter, jam, marmalade and marmite.

About England

England has four seasons like Japanese. In addition time difference is 9 hours between England and Japanese but during summer time is 8 hours. England has many famous building such as building, food and music.
Now, I will introduce about very famous building. I picked up two places in many lists. Both of them are London.

Westminster Abbey

Westminster locates Mill Bank along with Thames river. It is the World Heritage Site with Westminster monastery. But now, it is used as the House of Parliament. It has 1000 rooms and length is 300 meters.
But in 1834, it was disappeared by big fire. So Charles Barry was reconstructed in 1870. Nevertheless in 1941, this was destroyed by the Luftwaffe. After that, in 1950, Giles Gilbert architected West minster Place.

Big Ben

Big Ben is the very big bell on the House of Parliament. Its height is 97 meters and weigh is 13 tons. It rings loud chime to Thames river every 15 minutes.
The House of Parliament was constructed in 1850 and the reader of it was Sir Benjamin Hall. Big Ben was named after his name. On July 11th was 150 anniversary this ring. So some letters wrote on the wall and the ring picture lighted up there.

My favorite blog

I found some interesting blog from my zemi.

First is Azusa's blog. She introduced about English between New Zealand and America. There are many different points. For example, pronunciation is so different. I learned American English when I was a high school student. So I sometimes can not listen British English. Therefore I need a few time to think their meanings. I try to understand sentence meaning not only word. Unless I do so, I caught so strange meaning.
Her blog is so interesting.

Second is Mitsu's blog. He wrote about New zealand traditional culture. Especially Maori's culture. I understood easily about it. " Haka dance" is main Maori culture. It is a positive dance, for example all blacks which is rugby team in NZ.
We can understand Haka's culture and history and meaning. In addition, we can see " Haka's dance".

Presentation report

Today, I would like to introduce about birds of endangered species in New Zealand. There are various birds especially rare birds such as kiwi, kakapo, Takahe and robin etc.

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Kiwi

However, there were more rare birds like moa, huia, before human arrived. Many of birds in New Zealand can’t fly because there were no human so it’s safe for birds to live in the ground. But when Maori came to New Zealand, they hunt moa a lot to eat or make feather and ornament. In addition, European started to live with pets like dog or cat, and their pets kill not-flying birds. Also nature where birds live decreased. So, one third of birds which live in the ground died and 73 types of birds peculiar to New Zealand are endangered species.

So today DOC has taken various actions to save these birds. Then, I tell you what DOC does. DOC is the Department of Conservation. They are the central government organization to conserve New Zealand’s natural and historic heritage for all to enjoy now and in the future. They have protected, reproduced, and breed animals and natures. They succeed to prevent to vanish about many species. The latest example is kakapo. They increased it from 60 to 80 birds. DOC plays very important role in NZ. Recently, Westland Tai Poutini National park is 50th anniversary. It was created in March 1960. A reunion is planed to celebrate 50th anniversary of the park.

These are many examples of rare birds in NZ. The first is kiwi. Kiwi is national bird of NZ. Of course, they can not fly. They have hefty legs and they can run so fast. People are loved by them. Therefore they often keep up with humans. The death rate of grown-up kiwi is 5-16%, and the rate of child kiwi is 98%. So DOC set up some facilities. One of the facilities is Kiwi encounter in Rotorua. They try to incubate and breed artificially and take back nature. At present, there are 75,000 birds.

Second bird is takahe. It is also rare bird as same as kiwi. They were once found everywhere on both mainland islands. An adult takahe weighs up to 3 kg and stands up to 50 cm tall, about the size of a chicken. As typical of most of the flightless birds, it has short stout but strong, red legs. They have small wings but it is only used for display.

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Third is robin. They are very friendly and they often close to people. We can look their dance which is action to find their food. Their food is insects. Most of NZ birds eat insect and flutes. Robin is 18 cm and they can live from 6 years to 13 years. Robin is known for pretty birds.




←Robin



Next bird is kakapo. They are parrot in English and they are protected by DOC. Kakapo is the heaviest parrot in the world. The average is 3.5 kilogram and their size is 64 centimeters. In addition, they can live over 60 years and they are nocturnal. Now, DOC said we can succeed to breed. It increases from 60 birds to 80 birds. Moss-green feathers, camouflage are the bird’s main form of defence.


　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Kakapo→


Next bird can not see on the earth because it disappeared before we are alive. The name is moa and it says starling in English. It had vanished bird about 400 years ago and it was said only one non-feather bird in the world. Moreover it was the largest bird in the world at once. It means moa was larger than ostrich. But after the Europeans came into NZ, they are used as edible (fit to be eaten) bird. So they are eaten by people and their pets like dogs or cats. Giant moa was 3 meters. In addition, there are many threat species in New Zealand. But some of the bird is no-information on the web site. But only the name is appearing. For example, huia.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Moa→

Fainally is huia. The huia was probably New Zealand's most eccentric bird. It was a large 48 cm black bird with a bright orange "wattle" at the base of an ivory beak. It had a distinguishing wide band of white at the end of its long tail feathers. Huia feathers are a traditional Maori symbol of authority. The Prince of York followed the old custom of wearing huia tail feathers in headdress, by placing the feather in his hat. This set off a world fashion trend that was devastating for huia.




←Huia





This is my opinion. I think DOC is good activity to protect birds. In Japan, it has many protect species like toki. So I think I wish Japan has organization like DOC. If the DOC is none, many species the number of species are disappear. If there are organizations like DOC in the world, many threat-species do not disappear.

TRETY OF WAITANGI

On February 5th in 1840, ships came at New Zealand. They had different national flags and they came from Europe. Of course, they are Europeans. The reason why European came in New Zealand was to get the land. They wanted to own NZ by themselves. It is TRETY OF WAITANGI.

Captain Hobson had been sent by the British government to persuade Maoris. He tried to talk with Maori. Its content was Great Britain should take over the job of governing the northern part of NZ. But Maori would get to keep their lands and property. In addition, they would have the rights and privileges of Britain subjects. Then he claimed the South Island because Captain Cook who came from Britain had been the first to land there.

Henry Williams translated Maori to English from Hobson’s story. But Maori and English are very different meanings. This is an example, “kawanatanga” to describe the British government ruling over NZ.


Maori chief reject the signing to keep their lands and Maori’s language was changed the meanings by Henry Williams’s translations. But Finally, Hobson was a negotiator between Maori and Europeans. The word was “new government would protect their lands.” One Maori’s chief answered “Well.” As a result of this, February 6th in 1840, some Maori’s chief signed TRETY OF WAITANGI. They are given tobacco by European because Maori agreed with them. It is called TRETY OF WAITANGI.

☆Pioneer settlers☆

Pioneer settlers came from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. They settled New Zealand very hard. Their journey was uncomfortable. The ship wan too narrow and small, and they could not get enough fresh food or water. Therefore they gave many jobs and they shared them with men, women and children.

First, men's job were to clearn the land and looked after the livestock. Then they happened accidents when they were cutting down trees.

Second, women's job were to keep the family fed, clothed and healthy. Cooking was often on an open fire because food was not fresh. In addition, they had to fetched water from the stream and bread had to baked at home. Women even made butter to sell in nearby settlements. Nevertheless families were large, but many children died because of many diseases.

Finally, children helped on the farm and with household tasks because they were expected to work hard. In fact, they were independent and resourceful than their English cousins. They rode horses and were trusted with serious jobs. It was their job to keep up the wood supply for cooking. They helped their father and mother.

Hokey Pokey

I will introduce about Hokey Pokey. It is a flavour of ice cream, invented in New Zealand. The taste is so sweet and it's like a caramel flavour. This ice cream is always main desert in NZ. They eat after diner .But in Japan, we can't buy Hokey Pokey because it isn't sold in Japan. After I heard about Hokey Pokey, I wanted to eat it well. I searched web site which can buy this ice cream.