Students from Alton Convent School returned from an exciting nine day trip to Eastern Europe recently. Sixty pupils from years 8 to 11 descended on Berlin just as the German Football team fresh, from their European Championship Final defeat paraded around their city causing much amusement to the girls. Despite the festivities the girls visited the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie before departing to Dresden. In Dresden they visited the Royal Palace and shopped to their hearts content in the Altmarket and Prager Strasse.

On the 4th July Year 3 had a sleepover at school. When we arrived at 6.30 we unpacked our things and put out our beds in the Welsford Hall, some of them were really cool. We waited for our parents to go and when they had gone we went to the tennis court to play Miss McCallum’s new sport, called non-stop cricket. We were all rather hot and tired so we went for a barbeque and a drink. Lots of us had seconds of burgers or hot dogs and there were choc ices for dessert. After that we felt refreshed and we played Zulus on our way to the campfire. At the campfire we sang songs and toasted marshmallows. After that we got ready for bed and had hot chocolate. We had a story and went to bed at 11 o’clock! When we woke up we went to have breakfast in the Marian Hall and we watched a DVD until everybody was up. Mrs Bothwell taught us a great new game called Splat and then we went to the tennis courts to fly the kites that 3B had made. Before we went home we finished the game of non-stop cricket. It was a draw.