London Trip
Posted by John Naples-Campbell on May 30th, 2009
Last week seen the annual Knox Academy Activities Week and I ran this years trip to London. We took 20 S2/S3 pupils down to the Capital for 4 days.
Day One seen us leave school on a coach and head down, we arrived in London at about 3pm, unpacked and went to Lecister Square for dinner before going to see West End and Broadway Hit ‘Hairspray’. What an amazing, feel good show. The pupils loved it and loved meeting the cast afterwards too! Leanne Jones (the actress who plays Tracey) said how sweet and polite our pupils were.
Day Two we were up early to head to London Dungeons, pupils were given the chance to see a different kind of theatrical experience at the hands of this tourist attraction. After lunch in Tower Bridge we headed to BBC studios to take a tour of the famous building and find out how news, weather and programmes are made. Following dinner at Victoria we went to see my favourite West End show just now…. Wicked! After a standing ovation we headed back to our beds.
Day Three: Up early again and we headed for some culture as we were taken on a tour of Houses of Parliment and listened to the history of the building, I always find this fascinating (if not a little focused on England). Following a little look around the sites of London we headed to Covent Gardens for shopping and lunch, where very randomly I banged into one of ex pupils who is studying music in the city. Our evening meal was at TGI Fridays and we then filmed a short documentary about our time in London (after all this was the Lonodn Theatre and Film experience). We then went to see long time running play ‘The Woman in Black’, to which our pupils were a credit to the school. They sat in complete silence as the ghost story was told in front of them, the audience members around us stated how polite they were… but I think they were quiet as they were scared out their wits!
Day four: We left early and headed to Alton Towers where it was raining but that didn’t stop them having fun, after an exciting and tiring 4 days we arrived back in Haddington at 10.30pm!
I would like to thank The Cast of Hairspray who were lovely to our pupils, The staff at the London Dungeons were fantastic, The pupils who were a pleasure to be with, Miss Good for helping on the trip and to Mrs Craig at Knox for always encouraging her staff to run trips.