St Edward's Super Curriculum

From touring Sri Lanka with their cricket bats, to strolling the galleries in New York City, trips this year have taken pupils across the country and beyond. Travelling to the capital, History and Politics pupils visited Westminster and viewed the tombs of several key figures in Tudor history, learning about how burial monuments can give insights into their political and religious contexts. FOR THE EXPLORERS

research centre, and visited one of CERN’s nine detectors, ALICE, which is dedicated to heavy ion collisions in an experiment designed to study the conditions that are thought to have existed directly after the big bang. Later in the autumn, a group of Upper Sixth pupils taking Italian ab initio as part of their IB course enjoyed six days in the beautiful city of Florence. Each morning they worked on their Italian, followed by cultural visits to sites such as the Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria.

Going further afield, our young physicists flew to Geneva to visit the CERN nuclear

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