We continue to be amazed by the energy and enthusiasm of Miss Haworth who has galvinised and developed our international programme with the assistance of her colleagues and the invaluable work of the Charities Sub-group of the Ethos Forum.

 

Through the course of this year, each year group has taken a continent as their focus and spent time in the mornings learning about their chosen continent and their individual counties within it. This is all coming together in the week beginning 5 July, when the Charities Sub-group has organised a huge range of fund-raising activities to take place every day. Please encourage your offspring to come prepared to give their pocket money to the very good causes described on our supplementary sheet.  

 

They will be able to participate in or observe a wide range of activities including: a re-enactment of ‘Lord of the Rings’ (hopefully the condensed version); Galapagos Islands ‘Hook a duck’ (I’m not sure that’s entirely in the spirit of conservation …); Egyptian body dissection show and mummification game (no human beings will be injured in the course of these activities); indulge in Australian body art (we’ve had to waive the uniform rules just a little to accommodate this); enjoy a demonstration of the New Zealand hakka and, of course, sample food from across the world, always a firm favourite. It’s intriguing that Zambia’s activity is ‘Soak the teacher’ – who would have guessed that our cultures shared a love of this (mostly) harmless pastime.