During this year’s Gifted and Talented Summer School twenty four students participated in a range of activities and challenges. They also found the best week’s weather of the summer. They enjoyed a day out in the New Forest with a guided tour by a ranger, a visit to the reptile centre and Geography and Science related fieldwork.
On another day we welcomed Young Chamber and a number of representatives from the business world. The students were given an enterprise challenge where they had to produce a trailer advertising a new holiday programme, and include part in a foreign language.
This is the ninetieth year since the Armistice ending the First World War and students were given the opportunity to spend two days in Belgium. We visited an original trench system and several Commonwealth cemeteries. Several members of the group were able to locate the names of family members on the memorials.
The most poignant part of the week was attending the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate where we remembered those with no known grave. A group of students will be sharing their experiences in the Remembrance day assemblies in November.
Thank you to Southampton City Council for its generous subsidy of the Summer School and to the business community for providing some memorable prizes.
You may be interested in tracing family history through the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.cwgc/org.
