Visits and Exchanges
Geography Field Trip to Arran On 16th June, all the Lower Sixth geographers set off on a sixhour coach journey to the Isle of Arran. We would be staying the week at the Lochranza Field Study Centre where we would collect our data for our individual coursework. Before even leaving school we encountered a critter in need. A squirrel was trapped in a drain between CPS and The Avenue, luckily the helpless creature was saved when the maintenance team and a couple of our students came to the rescue. Thankfully the journey itself ran smoothly and to the excitement of everybody, we were greeted with surprisingly pleasant weather when arriving on the island. And the blessing of sun continued for the duration of our visit to Arran. On the first evening at the field center we were introduced to the campus manager Stuart as well as some ‘unique’ food and rainwater which was soon substituted for (better flavoured) juice! The main common room of the center soon became an STP hub, filled with constant cries of “TURN IT UP” and “BAZZAA” throughout all the episodes of Love Island which brought all 35 of us together at 9pm every night. Watching the world cup group stage matches was also another good
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opportunity for the fellas to take their minds off all the geography, especially as we witnessed England grabbing a late winner against Tunisia.
