French Horizons

27/05/2025

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, 18th-21st May 2025

This tour saw a great partnership develop between Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Ecole Bon Pasteur in Lisieux. The children from years 5 and 6 spent two full mornings at the French school, where they enjoyed a combination of music, sports, and classroom games. With afternoon visits to the Chateau Guillaume Le Conquerant, Village Fromager, and a mass service at the Basilica Saint Therese, this was a wonderfully packed itinerary which simply flew by! Dates are in the diary for 2026 and the children will keep writing to one another through the year.

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27/05/2025

Orchard Mead tour, 21st to 25th April 2025

A remarkably in-depth experience for the students and teachers from Orchard Mead Academy, with three days spent in partnership with the students from Collège Fernand Lechanteur in central Caen. Each day was structured with a full morning at the school, where the students divided off into various smaller groups to spend time experiencing the regular timetabled lessons with their French penpals, followed by canteen lunch all together.

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https://www.frenchhorizons.com/2025/05/27/orchard-mead-tour-21st-to-25th-april-2025/

27/05/2025

Winchcombe School tour, 1st-4th April 2025

Within a week of establishing contact between the College Du Bois D'Orceau and Winchcombe School, plans were immediately put into place for a tour so that the students could meet one another for real, it all happened in a flash!

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https://www.frenchhorizons.com/2025/05/27/winchcombe-school-tour-1st-4th-april-2025/

27/05/2025

Reddiford Prep School tour, 29th March to 2nd April 2025

The lovely primary school group from Reddiford Prep School enjoyed a fun weekend with us, based along similar lines to their tour with us in 2024. Sunday was a day of History, with a guided tour of the Basilica Saint Therese de Lisieux (all those steps up to the dome right at the top!). This overlapped with rehearsals at the venue with the visiting choral group from Ipswich High School, and the Reddiford children enjoyed listening to the sounds of the choir echoing round the dome! The afternoon was spent in Falaise with a visit of the Chateau de Guillaume Le Conquerant.

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27/05/2025

Ipswich High School music tour, 28th to 31st March 2025

A close link with the town of Honfleur for the Ipswich High School choir tour. They stayed at the Hotel Ibis Centre Historique, right in the heart of the old town, and their tour centred on their involvement in the local arts festival Paroles Paroles, run by local author/artist/creative Vanessa Simon-Catelin. Their first concert was in the picture-postcard village of Barneville La Bertran, at the pretty church which was opened up specially for the festival. A local watercolour artist was present too, producing some paintings during the course of the concert! That evening they went to watch a violinist-rapper (!) perform in one of a series of concerts at the Greniers a Sel. Their tour was completed with a performance at the prestigious Sunday Mass service at the Basilica Saint Therese de Lisieux. A fun and intense musical weekend!

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https://www.frenchhorizons.com/2025/05/27/ipswich-high-school-music-tour-28th-to-31st-march-2025/

27/05/2025

Kent College tour, 26th February to 2nd March 2025

A wonderful long weekend of musical collaboration with the visiting choir from Kent College Pembury. The first morning they attended the secondary school Collège Boris Vian, in the town of Mezidon-Canon, to perform to the students and engage in a Q&A session. The afternoon was spent enjoying the safari-zoo Cerza under some glorious winter sunshine!

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https://www.frenchhorizons.com/2025/05/27/kent-college-tour-26th-february-to-2nd-march-2025/

12/03/2025

12/03/2025

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12/03/2025

Hall School tour, 6th-10th Feb 2025

We greatly enjoyed welcoming the choir and orchestra from Hall School to us in February. Their tour centred on two big collaborations, firstly with the Ecole de Musique d’Orbec, in which we combined the visiting young musicians with a school orchestra in the town where the accommodation centre is based.

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