Up next in 10
Head of Xabia International College, Richard Wijeratne, joined Moody again this week for an update on the new secondary site, which is looking good for the upcoming school term. There was also news on the development of further extra-curricular clubs and activities for what will be a busy year with new levels of entrants and numbers on the waiting list.
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this is bay radio so busy old week this
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week
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straight back into the swing of things
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and welcoming back after uh
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a little bit of a break with appearances
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by other guests representing the college
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is
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mr witch richard winter running good
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morning good morning nice to see you
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moody you too welcome back in
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um now here's the thing it's um you know
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you get the things leveled at you like
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oh they're teachers and
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school people they said easy they have
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so long all those long holidays
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i don't think you've stopped have you
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there's too much going on no i think we
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we knew pretty well that this was going
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to be a write-off summer holiday-wise
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but it
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you know it's it's it's very good stress
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it's very good uh
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uh to be able to be working and having
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um the sort of uh
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challenges that we've had through the
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summer they're good challenges as
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opposed to difficult ones
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so much has happened so much is going on
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i have to say the staff
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in many cases haven't stopped either so
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i have to congratulate them and thank
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them because
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i saw a lot of them yesterday and it
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seems to be an ongoing process as we
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start to consider our moves for uh for
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september um
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now this is uh we've been saying
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exciting news because
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uh we've mentioned this pretty much
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every time we've been in but how's it
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coming along the new secondary sites
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yeah well
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i mean i i schedule yeah it's two it's
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two days behind
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so we uh we will take uh ownership of
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the building
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in uh on the fifth of september and we
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intend to
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move in well before and through from the
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fifth to the ninth and uh
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welcome our wonderful secondary pupils
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to their new home
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in kayakante ops on the ninth of
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september
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so loads going on we've got to obviously
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make sure that we have everything
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in place uh for them from an academics
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perspective but also from a covered
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safety
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um perspective as well so there's
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there's a huge amount of organization
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going on
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but it's not difficult we've got good
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people in the right places doing the
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right thing
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and i you know a huge shout out to to
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all of the staff because they're really
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they're really stepping up to it they're
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coming back into work um
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in the last week of august in order to
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help everybody
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try and make sure that we get everything
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over there and in the right place at the
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right time but yeah it's looking great
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it'll be one of those things i'm sure
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where um it looks like oh no we're not
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going to make this it's going to be
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and then suddenly everything just falls
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in place at the last minute well it's
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funny you should say that because about
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uh three or four weeks ago
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we we needed to have an inspection from
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the national association of british
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schools in spain needed to come and
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inspect the new building that's what
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they do it's a it's a matter of course
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that they have to do that in order for
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us to
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apply for the opening license and the
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most wonderful lady jill
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who came to inspect us told us that
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they'd seen she'd seen other buildings
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with longer periods of time to go um in
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a far greater
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issue about getting completed so she
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felt you bang on
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i mean she seemed to know more than we
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did but no the architects and the the
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constructors
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and the project manager i mean they
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really have
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pulled all all the stops out and worked
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extremely hard so i
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you know i congratulate them i thank
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them we have been nervous very nervous
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because we didn't want to start
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in the current site in order to have to
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move all the children
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we wanted to be able to start afresh yes
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that's going ahead yeah that'd be nice
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yes i get the impression that um you're
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the sort of you know
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how they describe the the duck or a swan
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uh very graceful
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surface but underneath paddling
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furiously yes one or two times you sort
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of your head goes below
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below the water but um no as i say once
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again it is a really
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great team effort um a huge amount of
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time has been put into it
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from all all quarters but um you know
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i also want to congratulate and thank
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the people who have
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invested in in us because you know you
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you might find it quite amusing but when
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i ring up um the the investors and say
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look we need this because we want to do
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that i need to
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i need 250 000 euros in order to put uh
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tvs on the walls and
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and and and network and and i need to
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buy sports equipment
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and it's not um oh can you justify that
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it's okay
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let's sort that one out anything good
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they've got their hearts exactly where
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we where where we need them to have them
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you know for us going forward
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so yeah thanks very much to them well i
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guess they do they have enough trust in
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you that um
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you know it would be justified they
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don't need to they don't need to see the
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paperwork and
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all your workings out well you know i'm
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a bit of a tight scotsman
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right so we've got to make absolutely
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certain everything goes where it should
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go and that we don't waste anything
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because um you know whatever money that
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we do have we want to try and invest it
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in in what the children are going to be
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doing so yeah um
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mike who runs a secondary school and
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steve who runs the primary school both
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of them are very very astute when it
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comes down to spending money
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money's got to be spent correctly i have
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absolutely no problem with spending
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money
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but we've got to make sure that it's
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spent in the right places and for the
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right causes and the cause
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all the time has got to be the children
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front and center so yeah it's it's it's
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really exciting i can't tell you moody
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the um the the the constructors are
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terribly proud
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to have been able to put a building of
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that scale of buildings sorry of that
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scale
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um up in basically just under eight
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months
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yeah with everything that's been going
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on i mean the the i guess they had to
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stop for a
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period of time and you've got other
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things to take into account when um you
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know
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as far as the building making the
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building coved friendly
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um you know that side of it actually in
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many ways is is is
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almost a more simple issue you know we
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can we've we've got our plans and we put
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them into into practice but
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um you know for the for the um
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constructors themselves when they had to
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pause
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when it had you know they had certain
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amount of difficulty with with poor
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weather earlier in the year
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you know you're always chasing your tail
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to try and catch up but they have
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and uh you know good people i'm really
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delighted that we that they were chosen
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and uh they've done a great job and i
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hope i hope they'll be extremely proud
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all we will ever do
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is if any other school came to us and
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said look um are you thinking we're
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thinking of building a new
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a new facility can you recommend a
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builder well there's no
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there's no question right well that's a
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good sign yeah absolutely and um
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here's the thing talking about the
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pupils going into the new school and of
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course your primary school as well
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it sounds like this year uh there's
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quite a few that want to get into the
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schools
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well um that's been part of the the the
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busy um
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process of the summer mike mills steve
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jarmon myself we've been
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extremely busy with new um new pupils
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new families coming to the area
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pupils moving schools wanting to join
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the xic family
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it's great but it does actually prove
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quite challenging
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as well because we now um i mean you may
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think it's a good thing
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i i think it's it is a good thing but
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it's also quite quite quite difficult
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where
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we've now got waiting lists in certain
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areas the nice thing is
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you know we're full we've got a capacity
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we never have any more than 20 children
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in any class
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that is a philosophy for the college and
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it works very well it supports the child
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it supports the teacher
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very important however you can end up in
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a bit of a pickle when you've got a
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family of two or family of three
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and we can accommodate one and of course
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the other one has to go onto a waiting
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list
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yeah so that is difficult for the
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children but um waiting lists are there
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for a reason
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people do move you know sometimes
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children our families have to return to
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their homes
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in in other countries we are very very
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international there are over 20
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26 different nationalities currently in
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the school and you know we're really
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really sad when we lose
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a loser family that's really important
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to us they understand that um you know
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ongoing there's every probability they
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come back
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um but if a family does have to go in
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with this whole covet scenario
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um we have had one or two of of of
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issues such as that
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um so there are places that become
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available but we've had uh the largest
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recruitment
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in the history of of the having
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international college this this year wow
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yeah it's massive what do you put that
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down to any can you point to anything in
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particular there's a number of number of
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factors a number of factors i mean
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over the recent years um there have been
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certain changes
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that uh not only contribute to the the
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family atmosphere but also to the
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quality of the product that's being
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provided
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we want to make absolutely certain that
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the children get the best they possibly
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can
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so that's down to staffing it's also
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down to facility
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because what we're trying to do is to
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reduce the amount of children on each
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site
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so we give them more space and more time
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so
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i think that's quite attractive i think
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the actual overall philosophy of the
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college is
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fundamental you know many many schools
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will say they have a family atmosphere
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and i'm sure they do
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but we actually do ensure that we focus
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on that point it is the
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whole family not just the children the
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children are paramount and up front and
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center as far as we're concerned all of
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the time but it's the
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it's the family behind that as well so
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we can work as a
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sort of triangle the school the family
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and the child in order to try and
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achieve what we want to what the
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children want to achieve
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and then another thing which i think is
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absolutely crucial here and and it is
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out and it's in the community is um the
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reaction of the staff
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to um the changes that have taken place
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over the last couple of years they have
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been
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really at the coalface of what we're
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trying to change and what we're trying
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to do
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the technology that we're using the
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approach that we want to have the upbeat
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approach that we want to have to
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challenges that they and children have
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the way they've reacted has been
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superb and i think that's one of the
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things that i love the most
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is when a member of staff can walk into
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the community and they will say somebody
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says to them
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so what do you do i'm a teacher all
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right you're a teacher where do you work
9:05
i work at the have international college
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all right what's that like fantastic
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because you can have the reverse i can
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tell you now you can have the reverse i
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mean
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so you you that i think is one of the
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key issues and of course as i said
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earlier
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if you have an ownership you have a
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group of shareholders
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who know what they want to try and
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achieve for the college and they want it
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to be something that's really special
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they find a tool and they just polish it
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and they polish it and they polish it
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and if they polish it enough then it
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shines and people see it and i think
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that's really quite key to
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what's happened now you just wanted to
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give a quick shout out to other people
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we've said you don't get a break but um
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you know some of the the staff are
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working through they have done they have
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done moody and you know it's sort of
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like the unsung heroes uh uh all of what
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we've been trying to do over the summer
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has required a great deal of
9:47
administration
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and that side of our staff have we have
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been really really dedicated
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and i do want to say thank you to all of
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the secretaries and the people who work
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with the finances and the
9:57
the administration they have been
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amazing um you know every call that is
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taken with every
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new family that's keen to join our
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family um
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it goes through them i mean they become
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like agony aunts they they support these
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families through
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trying to find places to rent cars to
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rent
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cars to hire um where they might um
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find a doctor and all sorts of things
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it's it's it's amazing the work that
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they do
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they keep us going and they do it with
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great grace and good humor
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um so many many thanks to all of them
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they they do a fine job they do it well
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and most the time with a great smile on
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their faces
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it'll throw up its own challenges as
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that's what everything does yeah sure
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um now obviously we've touched on quite
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a bit
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the online learning that's that's been
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going on that you've
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you know got down to a fine arts now i'm
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sure
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um how will that continue because you'll
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hopefully the
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students will be back at school yes but
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i'm guessing you can keep
10:51
some parts of it in place we have and i
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mean you know it's we had for about a
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year now
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been looking into offering an online
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program for those pupils who can't
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actually attend the college and this is
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internationally this is within spain
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which is back in the uk
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and it can be done in so many different
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areas and so many different subjects now
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so what we're looking to do is to
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provide an online service that is
11:14
second to none where we can actually
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provide support at all levels but we're
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actually focusing on primary level to
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start with
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because you've got one teacher and all
11:22
the class is learning at the same
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speed when where the where the challenge
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becomes a little bit more
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um complicated is where you're
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actually sourcing teachers to teach
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french to teach german to teach spanish
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science or all of these different
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components to bring
11:38
bring them together but that will come
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in time so the idea is that we will be
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setting up our own
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program a website where people can
11:45
actually dip into see the
11:46
see the different uh um courses that we
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offer and uh we already have
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some connections internationally and uh
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we will be working with them
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even down to you you have a whole school
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program where you can
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devote um the whole curriculum to either
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either sec whatever section of the
12:03
school
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or whatever section of the family that
12:05
requires that particular
12:07
instruction and teaching but i've also
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been asked whether we might be able to
12:11
provide an english program
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to schools where they basically have an
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extracurricular activity
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but that extracurricular activity would
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be um
12:20
would be taught through our own online
12:24
program so you would um have that every
12:26
every day from five to six for example
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so it's quite an interesting and uh
12:31
opportunity for
12:32
for the college and um we have some you
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know highly motivated people already
12:36
starting
12:36
to process this so it's the future it is
12:40
very much the future you can see that
12:41
people
12:42
are going to be working with distance
12:43
learning i think the lockdown
12:45
taught everybody so much about their own
12:47
businesses and i'm not talking about
12:49
just
12:49
just in teaching you know where they had
12:51
been traveling all over the place all
12:52
over the globe
12:53
um and they don't necessarily have to so
12:55
in fact they're not being quite so um
12:58
wasteful financially carbon footprint
13:00
you've got to think about everything
13:01
here really if you can do it remotely
13:03
yeah why not yeah you remember those
13:04
days when you had to go to travel to
13:06
hong kong for a meeting or something
13:08
it's completely different these days
13:09
totally yeah totally yeah um
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so talking to extra curricular stuff
13:13
because uh presumably you'll be able to
13:15
expand that a little bit there'd be one
13:16
or two things going on already
13:17
i i'm guessing yes i mean but with the
13:19
new school the more opportunities for
13:21
that i'm sure
13:22
absolutely this is this is this is key i
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mean one of the things we wanted to do
13:25
was to try and involve the community in
13:27
the college
13:28
so we have um we've employed we've taken
13:31
on
13:31
a tremendous guy he's a parent in the
13:34
college he has
13:35
enormous a wealth of experience in
13:38
running and organizing
13:39
extracurricular activities with schools
13:41
in the brighton area he currently works
13:43
with five schools
13:44
there five or six schools there and he
13:46
coordinates so many different activities
13:48
and sports
13:49
uh social dance adult adult
13:52
um training and learning so the idea is
13:55
that darren hambrook will join us
13:57
in september and he will start his
14:00
employment by
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organizing what we might be able to do
14:03
and making sure that we have everything
14:05
in place
14:05
in order to be able to have it as a safe
14:07
program but
14:09
the extracurricular activities will
14:11
range from
14:12
dance and drama through to pilates and
14:16
yoga
14:16
and english spanish computing
14:20
so many different areas and the idea
14:22
being that
14:23
we can actually bring people to the
14:25
facilities but mainly the new facility
14:27
because it's really quite convenient and
14:29
that we would he
14:30
intends to organize programs that would
14:32
involve the whole family so you wouldn't
14:34
have
14:34
a mum or a dad having to drop somebody
14:36
off and then having to go somewhere for
14:38
a coffee and then come back and they're
14:39
basically
14:40
wasting maybe they maybe don't see it
14:41
wasting but maybe they're just trying to
14:42
fill an hour or two hours
14:44
until their son or daughter has finished
14:46
the activity they're going to do so
14:48
to try and um run certain activities
14:50
concurrently so
14:51
um a child can come in and do their
14:53
activity whereas a mom can go and do
14:55
hers or a dad can go and do his so i
14:58
mean the facility will allow us to do
14:59
that and
15:00
that's exciting to us darren is has
15:02
started he started despite the fact he
15:04
hasn't actually um
15:06
begun in the college but i know he's
15:07
active and working with
15:09
various different programs in in in the
15:11
area
15:12
so it's exciting times yeah we have a a
15:15
a lot of people
15:16
ready and willing and keen to work on
15:18
that program but uh
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it's trying to involve people as much as
15:20
possible so that's what i mean we're
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saying extracurricular but it's not
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necessarily just
15:25
for the students of the school then no
15:26
no people from the community from the
15:28
community as well and uh one of the
15:29
other things that i'm you know feel very
15:31
strongly about is
15:32
is a good and purposeful summer summer
15:34
camp
15:35
which darren will run and then there's
15:38
also the um
15:40
the whole idea of uh study uh you know
15:43
study in during the easter time
15:45
where study courses that we can put on
15:46
to try and support young people
15:48
ahead of the time when they will do
15:49
their external examinations this is
15:51
key i mean it's all over the uk it um
15:54
all over the world actually where people
15:55
actually come in
15:56
in just before their uh gcse
15:59
a-level examinations and they get that
16:02
boost because they're taught by a
16:03
professional they're not just
16:05
um or they're revising with a
16:06
professional they're not just working in
16:08
their bedrooms trying to go through
16:10
their chemistry notes
16:11
to before which and terribly nervous
16:13
that they're not going to be able to
16:14
achieve what they hope to achieve when
16:15
you've got um
16:16
a professional in front of them who's
16:18
able to go through past papers and
16:19
support them with specific areas that
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they find difficult
16:22
this is key so darren's got a big job
16:24
he's a busy guy and he's
16:26
really really great entertainment um so
16:28
we look forward to good things in that
16:30
that's good if he's already doing that
16:31
sort of thing particularly in the
16:32
brighton area which is
16:33
there's a lot of people around there
16:34
that's that's where i came from to move
16:36
over here
16:37
um he'll have some good ideas already
16:38
and to put him to put in place
16:40
over here the summer camps and that sort
16:42
of thing they really come into their own
16:44
in a location like this as well they do
16:46
a lot more there's a bit more scope
16:47
there's so much to do you know from from
16:49
stand-up paddle
16:50
canoeing um you know kayaking they can
16:53
go to the horse riding stables they can
16:55
go
16:55
cycling they can do all sorts of
16:57
different activities on-site and
16:58
off-site so um
17:00
yeah i'm very much looking forward to
17:01
working with darren he's we've been
17:03
discussing this we've been planning this
17:04
for
17:05
over a year now and uh finally it's come
17:07
to fruition and i'm i'm really really
17:09
pleased that he's going to join our
17:10
family he's absolutely the right sort of
17:12
person for it um he's got enormous
17:13
energy he doesn't seem to stop he's
17:15
quite
17:15
quite tiring to to come to to have a
17:17
conversation with him i have to ride
17:19
people i know it's great oh good
17:22
and just uh finally then talking about
17:24
the the community that sort of thing the
17:26
loyalty initiative um the xic loyalty
17:29
which i've seen a little i got a glimpse
17:31
yes um you know in the i saw the card
17:33
yeah this is the one with the cards
17:34
it is exactly you showed me that and it
17:36
was like you know in those movies when
17:37
they open a briefcase and it you don't
17:39
see what's inside but it just glows at
17:40
you
17:41
this is what it looks like well just
17:44
explain a little bit i will i will
17:45
funnily enough the card itself was
17:47
designed by amy
17:48
um who works for time marketing she's
17:50
absolutely amazing
17:52
um but uh it was that the idea she
17:55
she designed a card that i think the the
17:57
picture on the card
17:58
actually um shows it displays
18:01
what xic's about it's a it has a
18:04
photograph of
18:05
of a couple of our pupils walking away
18:07
to have their lunch
18:08
and their their the friendship there you
18:10
can see is
18:11
is the way that they just carry
18:12
themselves and it's sort of it has that
18:14
family feel it's just beautiful it's
18:16
a brilliant brilliant piece of um of
18:18
artwork that that amy
18:20
found to be able to put on on the card
18:22
but the card is very i mean
18:23
the whole project is very simple it came
18:25
out of um
18:26
a conversation that um i was having with
18:29
my wife actually
18:30
um and we were trying to think of a way
18:31
that we might be able to involve the
18:32
community
18:33
um more generally in the college um we
18:36
are
18:37
here in harrier we're here on the costa
18:39
blanca and we really want to be
18:40
part uh of of that community and we want
18:42
the community to be part of our college
18:44
so the idea of the card was we know that
18:47
um and
18:47
and remember this year has been a a a
18:50
different year to all
18:51
too many and quite quite quite
18:53
incredible but in normal years
18:55
uh this part of the costa blanca does
18:57
extremely well with the tourists and the
18:59
visitors coming to join
19:00
our community they bring a huge amount
19:02
to the economy
19:03
um businesses do extremely well during
19:05
those times i hope i
19:07
i see however when the tourists go
19:10
the place quietens down quite a lot
19:12
despite the fact that
19:13
it has grown over the years but um
19:15
businesses quite down quite a lot they
19:17
need the support of the people who are
19:18
resident
19:20
so we thought we'd have that we'd we'd
19:22
create the the loyalty card
19:24
initiative where you or all of the
19:26
families in the college
19:27
receive one and um we've been into the
19:30
community and asked
19:31
various businesses if they might be
19:33
interested in joining it and basically
19:34
what they have to do
19:35
is to offer a discount to those people
19:37
who have the card
19:38
so if you want to go and get your
19:39
haircut which i don't do very frequently
19:41
but if you
19:42
go get your hair done you get 10 off
19:44
here you might get 50
19:45
15 off car hire there you might get a
19:48
certain amount of
19:50
discount from an insurance company or or
19:52
or i mean
19:53
it's it's far and wide you know we have
19:55
um people who offer
19:56
kayaking uh people who offer um
19:59
opticians
20:01
vet vets it's it's so so wide
20:04
so what it is it really took off and um
20:06
it meant that um
20:08
the the businesses themselves are being
20:09
supported by the residents of
20:11
of of of the cost of our our our school
20:14
and
20:14
and this area um and i think it's a real
20:17
positive
20:18
so um if you are and if you're keenan if
20:20
you're out there and you have a business
20:21
and you're quite interested in joining
20:23
our loyalty um um
20:24
uh initiative it doesn't cost you
20:25
anything what it does cost you is the
20:27
discount that you give to
20:28
to to to the client but um you know um
20:31
90
20:31
of something is better than zero percent
20:33
yeah somebody's coming to your business
20:34
so i think it's quite a good opportunity
20:36
so you just get contact with us at the
20:38
college um um search for us
20:40
uh google us and you'll find all of the
20:42
um the the email addresses
20:44
and um we'll we'll contact you brilliant
20:46
i mean you've got a real range of stuff
20:48
as you've
20:49
just sort of mentioned yeah um so is
20:51
there any way you can we can see what
20:52
yes what you do is um and this is on
20:55
board yeah you're gonna love this
20:56
because in fact
20:57
what you have to do is you've got to
20:59
download the international schools radio
21:02
app okay so we're not in competition of
21:04
course with no no we're all great
21:05
friends
21:05
but um you have to download the
21:08
international
21:08
schools radio that's how you search that
21:11
okay or
21:11
in your app store once you've downloaded
21:14
that and you've got that on
21:15
on your phone you'll be able to see that
21:18
there is a little area on the bottom
21:20
right that says more if you tap on more
21:22
you'll have a drop down menu and tap on
21:24
an area which says xic loyalty
21:26
and therein lies all of the different
21:28
businesses and the discounts that um
21:30
they provide and what you do is if you
21:32
tap on one of those you'll see a contact
21:34
a telephone number or address
21:36
and you contact that number and you just
21:38
say look i'm part of the
21:39
xic loyalty program i'm going to pop in
21:42
and
21:42
get my teeth looked at will i get my 10
21:45
discount and and you have the
21:47
conversation with them
21:48
so the the the idea is um the college
21:51
takes nothing out of it apart from the
21:52
absolute
21:53
delight and pleasure of being able to
21:55
bring people from the community
21:57
again in in contact with the people from
21:59
our own community and i think it'll it
22:01
will only grow
22:01
it's a it's a lovely thing to to have
22:03
and and well supported
22:05
and a good idea as you say because uh if
22:08
ever they needed the support of you know
22:10
residents spending some money um even if
22:12
they get a discount it's it's now
22:14
no i i firmly believe um you know if
22:16
you're going to
22:17
if you're going to get get 70 of
22:19
something it's 70 better than
22:21
than zero percent so um yeah i mean
22:23
thanks very very much to all of those
22:25
businesses
22:26
who are are part of the loyalty card and
22:29
um
22:30
thank you very much to our families who
22:31
are actually um you know supporting us
22:34
as a college
22:34
and hopefully they can support and take
22:36
advantage of a little bit of discount
22:38
you know if it's uh 2 5
22:39
10 15 euros here here or there it's
22:42
still a discount yep
22:43
all adds up absolutely well
22:47
we've covered a fair bit there thanks
22:48
ever so much for popping in because i
22:49
know you're a busy chap off to uh
22:51
interview folk and yeah i'm back but no
22:53
moody again thank you very much for
22:55
looking after us for i mean
22:56
the various people who have come in to
22:58
to to this to the radio station to talk
22:59
to you about uh
23:01
what we're trying to do and the energy
23:02
that's behind the college i i
23:04
they never feel as if they're being
23:05
interviewed they always feel as if
23:06
they've just had a conversation
23:08
so thank you very much for that well
23:09
that's how we like to do it here but
23:10
also i mean
23:11
the people that you've sent in yeah make
23:12
sure you send them in
23:15
they they've been great it's not exactly
23:17
been uh monosyllabic answers they've
23:19
been
23:19
a good value so uh it's all up on our
23:21
youtube channel to see
23:22
let's watch again as i say and as we
23:24
will do with this
23:26
indeed and thanks very much again to be
23:28
um you know i say every time
23:29
a good good group of people who look
23:31
after us and look after the community
23:33
and um you know they spread a very good
23:35
word very well very professionally and
23:37
um and we look forward to i look forward
23:38
to seeing you maybe in a couple of weeks
23:39
or
23:40
i shall send you in some other stars
23:55
you
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