Message to all readers of our web pages from Jonathon Surgenor

Hello or goodday to any New Zealand viewers, I'd just like to say a quick hello to anybody who has been able to link into the web site of Mereway Middle School.

We have just joined the British Council Interlink Project. What I hope to get out of the Interlink is to make more friend's, learn how other people deal with situations and what other schools methods of teaching different subjects are like.

It will also be good to compare two totally different countries, that are so far apart, and the different challenges they have to face.

A couple of miles down the road from my school is the town centre of Northampton. Across the road from my house there is a monument to Queen Eleanor , the wife of an English king in Medieval times. She died and the King carried her body across the country to her final resting place. Wherever he stopped to rest he placed a monument to her, declaring his love.

Northampton is in central England and there was once a battle between London and Northampton as to who would be the capital city. Northampton because it was closer to the centre, or London, because it was the biggest city of the time , Guess who won?

However Northampton is a major town close to the main motorway system that leads all over the country, so we can travel to lots of different places.

Thank you for reading my message and I hope you enjoyed what I had to say.

Yours sincerely

JONATHAN SURGENOR

MEREWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

NORTHAMPTON

ENGLAND