Reading - A Busy Day

The children of Genguan village in the south of China get up early every day and have breakfast. After breakfast, they start their long journey to school.

But these boys and girls don’t go with their parents. They always go with their head teacher, Mr Xu.

Mr Xu doesn’t take the students by coach or minibus. He goes with the children on foot and they walk on a path to their school in the mountains. The mountains are very quiet and pretty. But the journey is dangerous because the path is old and small.

The children walk behind Mr Xu for an hour. They go through tunnels and they walk on a very dangerous part of the path too. 

There is a safer path to the school, but it takes two hours. The school is called Banpo School and it’s in a nice place in the mountains. It isn’t very big and there are only forty-nine students.

At school, the children all have classes with their teachers and in the break, the boys and girls play or chat with friends. When school finishes, it’s time to go home, and the students start the long and difficult journey again.