TWENTY-seven pupils from Mount House enjoyed the school's 13th annual educational visit to France.

Among the activities was a trip to Bayeux to see the world-famous tapestry depicting the 1066 Norman invasion, and the children compared those events with the D-day landings when they visited the British war cemetery in Bayeux, and the remains of the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches.

A day trip to Paris provided an opportunity to see the Arc de Triomphe, before walking down the Champs Élysées to the Place de la Concorde and through the Tuileries Gardens to the Louvre. After visiting the Eiffel Tower they took a boat trip on the Seine then headed back to Normandy.

Highlight of the next day was a visit to the Collège Jeanne d'Arc, a school in Brittany with which Mount House has an unofficial correspondence exchange. The children met penfriends face-to-face, some for the first time, and experienced life in a French school.

On the final day, the group visited Mont St Michel.