FREE invitation to students to (re)connect
Dear Parents,
Class of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 + future students
Most importantly, we hope that you and all of your family are well. Whether ‘juggling’ working from home and looking after your children and teenagers or bravely going out to work every day as a ‘key worker’, we know that all of our parents are facing big challenges as we all navigate our way through this pandemic.
This is a time when everyone in the world, in their own way, in their own situation, is facing the same problem. Coronavirus affects us all.
For the whole family, being locked in the house is a challenge. For children and teenagers, not going to school is a challenge. Living with coronavirus can be isolating and lonely for all of us.
“A problem shared is a problem halved.”
In response, we are organising a project to connect new More Than English students and reconnect old More Than English students from around the world to share their experiences of living through this global crisis. We are very proud of all the work we’ve done since 2015 to bring teenagers from every corner of the world together to share ideas, find new perspectives and develop new skills. Now that the world is facing a global problem that requires a global solution, more than ever, we need to strengthen connections between young people around the world.
We would like students to join us in an informal online Zoom discussion and share their personal experiences of the pandemic. It does not matter when you studied at More Than English: we want to hear from you! Maybe you are at university now or have started your first job. We want to hear from you! Equally, we want to hear from students who studied at More Than English more recently in 2017, 2018 and 2019! Also we want to hear from students who are booked to study at More Than English in 2020!
Register
The meetings are free of charge £00.00
Please register your child for our online discussion at this link:
We will send you a link to a Zoom meeting.
Meeting times:
Class of 2015, 2016, 2017: 1600 UK time Monday 4th May
Class of 2018, 2019, 2020: 1600 UK time Tuesday 5th May
What will we discuss in the first meeting?
We want to know about your personal experience of the crisis.
– Your town > how is it coping?
– Your education > impact?
– People > how are they reacting?
– ‘Lockdown‘ > your experience?
What will we discuss in future meetings?
If you enjoy the first meeting, we will organise future panel discussions, projects and interviews to include more challenging topics connected to the pandemic:
– Virology > the basics
– Governments > the role of
– Communication > from social scientists to conspiracy theorists
– Lessons of History > Pandemic of 1919
– Education – impact on
– A warning from nature? > do we want life to return to how it was before?
