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Turkish Delight
The spectacularly positioned hill-top theatre at Pergamon, the recently excavated stadium at Magnesia,
the incredibly well preserved houses at Ephesus, a reconstruction of the legendary wooden horse at
Troy and the new museum at Aphrodisias were just a few of the amazing sites visited by forty-two
classicists who went to Turkey over the October half term.
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Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day was observed on 11 November with the customary CCF parade and two minutes
silence at 11 am, which this year followed straight on from a service of Remembrance for Middle and
Upper School in the Amey Theatre.
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Tsunami Appeal Bike Ride
In the blazing heat of Japan in August, Milan Banerjee raised £450 from a sponsored bike ride, which
took in 465 km of the 720 km perimeter of the island of Shikoku. The money raised went to the
Save
the Children
Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief fund.
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