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join us so that we could make a big family
party. We had been told of an hotel in Bruges where we would be
welcome for breakfast and lunch, and we could not have found a
better place. We have kept in touch with the family from that
hotel ever since and although Mr. Charles Van Hove died a year
or two ago his daughter and her three children and his widow
Irma Van Hove are still there and have visited us over here.
The preparation for those trips again involved
practically all our school in history, geography, mathematics
and written work of all kinds. Books were made after our visits
containing postcards, tickets, paper bags with foreign names on
them – all kinds of memories which I think will remain for
many years to come in the minds of all those who took part in
those visits. Of course activities do inevitably cause a lot of
mess and I would like to pay tribute to Mr and Mrs Duckworth who
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happy state. I would also like to pay tribute
to the work of the canteen staff. Although we did not have our
dinners cooked on the premises, they were bought from other
schools, the serving and the collecting of the dirty plates and
the stacking and the carrying was not easy work and they did it
cheerfully and efficiently. I would like to thank them very
much.
The last item I would like to recall took place on
Good Friday of my last year at the school. It was a mimed
version of the crucifixion under the guidance of Rev John Allen.
We started from the church door and made our way down the aisle,
freezing at certain points in our acting as Rev Allen read
appropriate portions of the bible and then carrying on with our
miming to the point of the picking up of the cross by Simon of
Cirene. The children entered into the spirit of the acting in
such a way that although we had no one representing the figure
of Christ, He was there and as |