University of the West of England

A few weeks ago one of my teachers at Fontys in Tilburg contacted me with Jo Barkham of the University of the West of England, and I asked her whether or not it would be possible to do a course at the University during my stay in Bristol. She told me that the courses would be finished by June but she did invite me to attend a lecture of Andrew Pollard, a man who has been teaching in primary education in England for years. He would give a lecture on 'reflective teaching' which would be quite interesting to attend.
And that's what I did today. On my way to UWE I took a picture of the incredible surroundings near the University.


After meeting Jo Barkham of UWE I attended the lecture which was absolutely interesting, although it was mainly focused on primary education. I was invited to the party afterwards (it turned out to be these students' last lecture at UWE) and had a chat with Andrew Pollard about primary education in the Netherlands. He told me that he is actually going to visit the Netherlands within the forseeable future to give another lecture somewhere in Amsterdam.


Some third year (nearly graduate) students asked me to have lunch with them on the extremely large campus of UWE (and there's four UWE campuses in Bristol!). We had a good chat and some beers and I'm going to watch the England against Brazil football game with two of the guys later today.



Most of the students went home around two, and after having taken some more pictures of the campus I decided to cycle back from UWE to Montpelier, of which I've made a short video.