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Château trip to Normandy This Half term the Remove made a trip to France to explore the Normandy D-Day landing beaches, the war cemeteries and museums as well as some sites from the Middle Ages. “We were based at the Château du Baffy near Bayeux – the ideal base for us”, writes Christine Clemit, their teacher. “At the Château, on the last night, the local French chef prepared escargots and frogs’ legs for the pupils and teachers to sample. Our visits to the exhibitions and collections of memorabilia at the WWII sites were a very poignant reminder next, and our pupils were much affected by the evidence of Later on we made a journey to Bayeux to see the tapestry and saw William the Conqueror’s castle at Falaise but the trip was not all about history. It was also about experiencing French culture, language and traditions so we all spent a whole morning baking organic bread with a Dutch baker who established his ‘Co-pain Boulangerie’ in Normandy
for making bread but also taught the pupils some French and encouraged them to practise the language whilst they were working. Our visit concluded with a day at Disneyland Paris, which the pupils much enjoyed at the end of what had been a serious and quite emotional stay.” Christine Clemit, Head of French