My Italian adventure with Nunnery Wood High School

Learning Come to Life

All of these were fantastic opportunities to learn outside the classroom and consolidate the students’ knowledge. Everything that they had learnt in Mrs Scoby’s and Mr Allen’s classrooms was coming to life before their very eyes. I am always mesmerised by this process; when something suddenly clicks in a student’s mind and everything falls into place.

In addition to this, and probably even more importantly, I have had the pleasure of seeing this young group develop their personalities. I have seen them make new friends, mix with people they have never met before and be each other’s homes away from home. I have seen them challenging themselves physically and emotionally, supporting each other, consoling each other and most importantly, looking after each other.

These are the reasons I love my job so much and I am so very grateful every time I get the opportunity to go out on tour and see this happening first hand.

How A Tour Coordinator Helps Your Tour

In my role in the office as a Tour Coordinator, I work passionately with the party leaders and teachers to plan the best possible itinerary for the group and to ensure that everything is in place for them whilst on tour; but when I have the chance to swap my desk for my walking boots and become a Tour Manager… that’s when everything falls into place for me too.

Then I see clearly why we care so much and we all work so hard at Rayburn: for those very moments; the moments we see these students developing and learning, for those ‘penny-dropping’ moments and those “wow” moments.

That is what makes it all worthwhile for me! (Even despite the very very early starts!)