Newick Twinning Association

Official Visit to Itteville May 2011

Whilst the Bank Holiday in the UK was not good this year, in Itteville the sun shone and provided us lovely weather for the weekend with our host families. On Saturday morning, a joint committee meeting was held to review the projects that we are working on. The Ittevillois are very keen to extend the link already established between our Primary School in Newick and the Jacques Prévert School in Itteville, so that it continues when the children move on to Chailey Secondary, which is a Centre of Excellence for Languages.  Arrangements were also discussed for our special twentieth anniversary next year. We spent the rest of the morning at a reception at Jacques Prévert School and saw displays of work the children had completed after their recent visit to Newick in April – this project between the schools is now known as “Ittwick”. On Sunday we visited Domaine de Saint Jean de Beauregard which had a fascinating pigeon house and beautiful gardens. We had lunch at Gif sur Yvette Country Club, and then visited an art exhibition at Chamarande. On Monday, we arrived back in Newick, after a short stop for shopping in Auchan, early evening.  We felt as though we had been away for much longer, but everyone agreed it had been a super weekend.

Here is a selection of photos from the weekend.

Joint Committee Meeting at the École Paul Bert

Head Teacher Thierry Pilia welcomes us to the École Jacques Prévert

Many Twinners visited a vintage car rally with some lovely old models on display (and for sale, even!)

Domaine de Saint Jean de Beauregard

An excellent lunch on the Sunday at the Gif sur Yvette Country Club

All too soon it was time to say goodbye