Twenty- four students and three teachers of Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara, left for UK, on June 21st, to explore London, Kent and nearby places. Out there, they will have a first-hand experience of the family and academic lives of English students.

This is a part of a student-exchange programme that the school has with Cranbrook School, Kent. They will return on July 6th. The students and teachers are staying with families of students from the host school.

New Experiences

The exchange programme began in 1998, following the visit of Angela Daly, the then principal of Cranbrook, to Bhavan's. Impressed by the cultural and educative experience that she got, she invited the then principal of Bhavan's, Meena Vishwanathan, to visit Cranbrook. This set off to a regular exchange programme, with students paying visits to each other's schools every alternate year. This is the third batch of students from Bhavan's to visit Cranbrook. Students from Kent who visited Kochi last year were put up at their homes.