Y6 Educational Visit: St Pol de Leon, Brittany 23/06/2005
Dear Mr ...,
I have been prompted to write to you after seeing your pupils and staff whilst they were taking part in an educational visit to Brittany.
What a great credit and advertisement for your school! The care of the staff was exemplary and the attitudes and behaviour of the pupils was of the highest order. I have recently retired as a primary head teacher in the South Devon area, and it was a real joy to see pupils enjoying themselves so much.
My wife and I became aware of the children when visiting the local market in St. Pol and thought then what nice attitudes they had as they made their purchases amongst the local stalls.
That evening, whilst returning from a short break to do some shopping, we found ourselves in the same area of the ship for the overnight crossing. The children were amazing. No doubt they were tired and excited, but they didn’t disturb anyone and in the morning when I started to talk to some of them, they were bursting to tell me all about the marvellous experiences that they had had. What a shame there wasn’t enough time as more and more joined in with different tales!
I am sure the visit will be imprinted in their minds forever. I know how tiring it is and the responsibilities involved in taking pupils on residential visits, but the staff of the school should be commended for their care and efforts; it is clear that they have given the pupils so much to remember from their visit to France.
There were other passengers on the ship who also commented on the excellent behaviour of the children but, of course, most didn’t mention it to the staff or children.
I have written a short note to the children to say thank you to them as well.
Perhaps you could convey our best wishes to them and praise them for being such excellent ambassadors to the school, and to themselves. You can be very proud of all of them.
I am sure you and your staff are looking forward to a well earned rest at the end of a very busy term.
Enjoy the rest.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely
Mike Bailey
(published with permission)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Steve Long and Becky Davis for use of their photographs.Andy and Elaine for processing images, and editing and building the blog pages for me.
And especially to all staff and pupils, past and present, of Robertswood School.
Two more blog pages came to me after the fifteen went out so I have added them now.
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