CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT WEEK
at post-18 options and a day at Oxford Brookes University. But it was Year 9 who experienced the starkest contrasts in a week that combined comedy, visiting the WW1 battlefields in Belgium and learning how animals are trained for the film industry. CEW began for Year 9 at Sibford with a visit from Richard Franks, one third of the comedy trio Three Half Pints … described by The Stage as ‘hilarity to the point of exhaustion’. Richard, who regularly appears on CBeebies, shared comedy techniques and taught pupils how to ‘trip up’ and throw ‘punches’ as they explored slapstick stunts and falls. The following day hilarity turned to heartache as they headed off to Belgium to tour the Battlefields of World War 1 and see for themselves the rows and rows of headstones that represent just some of those who lost their lives. The excursion was especially poignant for Finn, whose great great grandfather, Frederick Stanley Poulton, and cousin three times removed, Ronald Poulton Palmer, had both fought in WW1. Stanley enlisted in the Royal
Flying Corps and went to France. He returned very ill with mustard gas poisoning and shell shock.
Ronald, who was an English Rugby Union footballer who Captained England, volunteered for oversees service but his experience of the war was brief. On the morning of 5 May 1915, he was involved in repairing a trench, near Ploegsteert Wood in Belgium, when he was shot by an enemy sniper and killed.
Ronald’s grave is in the Hyde Park Corner cemetery and Finn was able to find it and reflect on the sacrifice made by his relatives. He later said he was ‘very proud’ to have been there. Year 9 returned to the UK on Thursday evening but there was still another surprise in store for them on Friday when they discovered one of the Cotswold’s best kept secrets … Heythrop Zoological Gardens, home to Amazing Animals,
Above: Year 10 pupils enter the tiger enclosure to make a junk model of a tiger filled with tasty treats. Right: The tiger comes out to play!
Far right from top: Year 8 in Norfolk; Year 12 in London; Rebecca lays a wreath during the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate; Year 7 playing adventure golf
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