Chronicle April 2016

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Open Day Shell entry Saturday 14th May www.stedwardsoxford.org

French Trip

What better way to broaden your experience of French culture, history, gastronomy and language than during a five-day trip to Normandy at the start of the Easter holidays? Based in the Château du Molay near Caen, it was only a stone’s throw to Arromanches, Omaha Beach at St-Laurent (pictured) and the Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg (with its Titanic exhibition and nuclear submarine Le Redoutable). In Bayeux the group visited the Tapestry and interviewed the locals. Perhaps most popular for some were the visits to a goats’ cheese producer, a bread-making cooperative, a cider farm and a caramels factory. Or was it the snails, the frogs’ legs and the crêpes on the menu one evening?

Clay Pigeon Shooting At the end of February, St Edward’s entered two teams into the prestigious Fido May Trophy competition run by Harrow School at the EJ Churchill Shooting Ground near High Wycombe. Up against intense competition from regulars such as Millfield, Wellington, Marlborough, Harrow and Eton our teams certainly held their own through the six stands and the flurry. We hope that clay pigeon shooting can return to our regular activity programme in the near future.

Nick Coram-Wright

Grapes galore: Lydia Jones-Parry ( Yateley Manor Prep ), Celia Hodgson ( Westbourne House ) and Grace Allen ( Dragon ) dress up for the leavers’ photo