Several quite different events have recently taken place at Hurst Lodge School. The whole school celebrated Shrove Tuesday with an Inter-House Pancake Race. Teachers and pupils alike used the full length of the dance studios and had great fun in competing for points for their House. The race was followed by lunch when the catering staff showed off their expertise in the tossing of pancakes before being consumed by the children - the pancakes not the staff!!
The MP for Windsor, Adam Afriyie, visited
Hurst Lodge School last Friday.
He spoke to students aged 4 – 19 and the staff about how he had become an MP and what it was like to be a Member of Parliament.
Mr. Afriyie spent 40 minutes answering questions about a variety of topics from “Do you like being an MP?” to “Do David Cameron and Nick Clegg actually like one another?” and “How involved do you get in international politics particularly when British citizens are stranded abroad?”
He then toured the school accompanied by Sofia Quick, a sixth former who is the School’s Head of Council.
Sofia has developed an interest in politics after putting the case for the Conservatives at the school’s political hustings during the election week.
Sofia was responsible for organising the visit and liaising with Mr. Afriyie’s personal secretary.
School Principal Victoria Smit said “We were very grateful to Mr. Afriyie for giving up his time.
He has the gift of talking to young people in a manner that they easily understood and even the youngest children felt happy to ask questions.”
Top this off with a visit to Rushmoor Organic Farm and you can see this has been a very busy couple of weeks for the school. More details of this visit are available in the events section of the Hurst Lodge website.
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