This year’s French residential to Normandy’s Château de la Baudonnière, during February half term, was organised as a fantastic team effort by the College’s Modern Foreign Languages and Trips departments and the outside organisation Castaway School Travel.
Trips to Mont Saint-Michel and the landing museum in Arromanches, together with a whole variety of fun activities such as fencing, table tennis and snail-tasting, plus the chance to interview the Deputy Mayor at the Town Hall Saint Hilaire, provided brilliant opportunities for students to practice their French.
Course Leader for French Benedicte Morell said, “The A Level course film, Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malleand and novel Un sac de billes (a bag of marbles) by Joseph Joffo are both set during the second world war and so the trip to Arromanches was particularly poignant. Our students made me very proud to be their teacher. They behaved impeccably!”
