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Congratulations to our Year 13 Class of 2024 on your achievements today. We are very proud of you and wish you well in your next steps.

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We wish all our 6th Formers receiving results today the very best of luck. Our 6th Form team will be available all morning today to talk through your options and next steps.

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A minor setback this morning in that Bank of A was happy to exchange our £ on arrival, not so keen to give it back so we're expecting to be"stung" at the airport. Lunch at midi, départ for airport 1300 hrs

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It's been a morning of packing, unpacking & repacking & trying to work out how to get all our stuff back into the bags in which it came out. Photo is aerial shot of Chez Jeanne with various pads highlighted. I think we'd recommend it if anyone was out this way #toomuchbonbon

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Our last journey with Rhodin to the airport. The roads weren't any quieter; we won't be complaining of traffic in the UK for a while nor potholes!! Destination Mauritius 🇲🇬 🛫 🇲🇺

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First stagevif our return journey went smoothly. We've arrived in Mauritius which looked spectacular even in the dark. BUT...

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And so our long journey home begins. Rhodin our illustrious, dedicated driver, is seeking shade under Ben's armpit. He was 3 hours early to collect us😅 his passing shot was " see you next week?"🤣🤣 (if only!!) we managed to dodge the porters & checkin was fairly painless.

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URGENT MESSAGE- Not so good news- We're delayed in Mauritius. However, the team have been invited to dinner by Air Mauritius at Burger King #everycloud At the moment we are not due @LGW until 0855.Parents please allow an hour for us to come through. Will confirm as late as poss

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More from the lemur park later.. its supper time here. Our last of the trip 🥺 meanwhile here are the details of our return flight. We don't expect to be through until at least 0800 and will hang about in arrivals. Any changes to these plans will be posted here (if possible)

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A young male lemur put on a real show for us, annoying his Mum ( who is brown) for our entertainment too. #okayyouarequitecute

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Woah.... this chap was happy to get up close... welcome to the Lemur Park 🤣 we met some real characters and took lots of photos and video #letmeshowyoumybestside

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It was chilly this morning with cloud shrouding the paddy fields below our hotel Chez Jeanne.The team rewarded themselves with a slightly later start, breakfast at 0715. We left the hotel at 8 for today's excursion. First challenge..Tanna in the morning rush hour #whatrightofway

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We've had our last supper, topped off with an impromptu review of the trip (they were reminded that there's still 1 day to go) Clearly plenty of challenges have been taken on & many happy memories have been created. There's plenty to talk about. We'll try to update on progress.

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We've seen many contradictions as we've travelled across Madagascar. Billboards advertise multi national organisations or fashion styles, whilst many still wash their clothes in the "fairly stagnant"river & lay them out to dry on the banks #gratuitousphotoof2cvtaxi ❤️

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Our destination today was one of the country's lemur parks on the outskirts of the city. We were a little sceptical about what we'd see.. there was lots of bamboo...

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Then we spent some time with the classic ring tailed lemurs. They didn't mind posing for photos either #imkingjuliannoimkingjulian

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After a couple of hours of guided tour, we were more than happy to find out that lunch was included (Ben; aka chancellor of the exchequer; was even happier to only pay for drinks & a tip). Then onto the craft fair & serious bartering !

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Our last night on the coast saw us find a local restaurant with live music to celebrate an early birthday (photos to follow) when we got back to the Bamboo Club, a huge party was in full swing just behind our rooms. Not ideal if one is getting up at 4am to head to the airport.

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Although the tree didn't seem too impressed😉

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So we're back in the bustling capital (Tanna between friends) we had to wait for our rooms at Chez Jeanne, so headed into the local district to find some street food for lunch #theyregettingquitegoodatthisnow