‘LE WEEKEND’, CHEETINGHAM STYLE
Pupils from Cheetingham CE Primary School played host to children from our twin town of Jument Sur Mer over the Easter weekend.
A total of 25 pupils from L’Ecole du Petit Cheval spent the four-day period staying with local families and experiencing life in an English village.
The weekend started on Good Friday in the church hall, when the excited French visitors said 'oh, la la!' to such traditional pastimes as worm chopping, tadpole swallowing and hamster cram.
On Saturday, the children were treated to a good, old-fashioned 'night down the pub’, during which the landlord of The Bull and Pizzle laid on as much beer as they could drink. A carefully staged fight between the two groups in the car park afterwards lent extra colour and authenticity to the evening.
The ritual Sunday morning hangover was followed by an eye-popping afternoon at the Traubert’s Heath abbatoir, giving the French youngsters the opportunity to see firsthand just exactly what goes into ‘le rosbif’.
Add to that a trip to the methane processing plant on Mungo Park Road, and it was a tired but happy group of eight-year-olds who said 'au revoir' to their hosts and set off for home on Monday evening.
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