In June, four students from The English Martyrs School Sixth Form College spent two days living as pupils in Ampleforth College with four of their students, who then returned to spend two days with us. If you’ve never been, Ampleforth is both a monastery and an exclusive boarding school, which offers and educational experience quite different from that of our school. The purpose of the exchange was to give all the students an opportunity to explore the similarities and differences between each school in terms of how they seek to provide an education that is distinctively Catholic. By doing this we hoped that to better understand the nature of Catholic education and identify ways in which each school might learn from the other.
All the students involved thoroughly enjoyed themselves and had a unique educational experience. To quote Angelika:
‘Ampleforth has something very special and different, maybe because of the strong religion. Both are Catholic schools but the feeling is different when you are participate in school and social life in one school and then another.’
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