Our trip to Hamelin was such fun! We spent a couple of days in May in the historic town of Hamelin in Germany to meet up with our German pen pals. For the past year we had been writing letters to our pen pals in Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium and now we were very excited to meet them for the first time. Our pen pals had chosen a nice ice cream parlour to “break the ice” and from there we went to explore the legend of the Pied Piper and followed the “rat trail” through the picturesque centre of Hamelin.

The first half of term, and assessment week, ended in fine style with an inter-house rounders competition. Each house fielded two teams, composed of Year 5s and 6s, with a smattering of Year 4s, for this round-robin tournament. Many of the matches were very closely fought, but the eventual winners, on an aggregate of points from both teams, were St Chantal.