6th Form trips to Germany
Aachen work experience programme
For many years, the German department at Queen Elizabeth’s has worked in close partnership with the Einhard Gymnasium in Aachen / North Rhine Westphalia to give QE students in Year 12 the opportunity to improve their spoken German through participation in work experience in Germany. Students from the Einhard Gymnasium participate in work experience in England in exchange.
The German students usually come to England for 10 days just before the Easter holidays, stay with their English partners and work in a placement that is often provided by parents or friends of Queen Elizabeth’s.
Our students travel to Germany after their AS exams, usually from the middle to end of June, stay with their partners and work in a placement in Aachen. Every attempt is made to provide our students with a placement of their choice and in the past, placements have been found with banks, lawyers, engineering firms, magistrate courts, hospitals, schools, libraries, book shops, pharmacies, leisure centres and computer companies.
Those studying Advanced level German have always found this venture extremely useful and interesting. It provides them not only with the opportunity to practise their German and to learn about the German way of life, but also offers them an insight into a career they might wish to pursue in the future.
Study trip to Berlin
This bi-annual study trip normally takes place for five days during the Easter holidays and it provides an important enrichment to the German curriculum in the Sixth Form.
The study trip has always proved very popular with our students in the past as it offers a tremendous range of cultural, architectural and historical experiences. The German capital has undergone radical changes since reunification of East and West in 1990 and presents itself as a thriving city where old and hypermodern form a very stunning symbiosis and where urban development occurs at a breath-taking pace.
An extensive programme of events is organised for our students and includes visits to museums, art galleries, the cinema, theatre, trips on boats and sightseeing buses, a ride up the television tower, shopping and leisure time, together with an excursion to Potsdam.
Study trip to Munich
In years that there is not a trip to Berlin, Sixth Form students are invited to take part in a study tour to Munich. The itinerary for these visits usually includes:
- Olympic Centre and Tower
- Nymphenburg Castle
- BMW Museum Bavaria Film Studios
- Pinakothek der Moderne (Design & Technology)
- Lehnbachhaus (German Expressionists) Deutsches Museum (World's largest Museum of Technology)
- Sightseeing Tour on a double-decker bus
- Day Trip to Salzburg/Austria
- Walking & shopping tours
- Cinema visits