English School organises trip to the north

THE ENGLISH School in Nicosia has arranged an educational trip to northern Cyprus and pupils can, attend provided they have their parents’ consent.

The trip, planned for December 4, will be a journey into Mediaeval Cyprus. Pupils will get the chance to visit historical Cypriot monuments, such as Kyrenia castle.

A representative for the school told the Cyprus Mail yesterday that the trip had been n the cards for a while and that it is 100 per cent educational.

“This is an extra curriculum activity that was organised by four of the school’s societies: History, Economics, Environment and Under the Same Sky. It is voluntary and very important that pupils’ parents sign the relevant permission slip, allowing their children to attend.”

Iacovos Theodoulou, a first year pupil at the school, says he wouldn’t be interested in the excursion. “I have been there already and, because I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t like to go there again.”

His father, Christos Theodoulou, said he had no qualms about his son going on the trip. “It would not bother me at all.”
Nor does he think that it would cause any danger to the pupils. “The days when something like this was dangerous are over.”

The trip will be supervised by six of the school’s teachers, three of which will be Turkish Cypriot.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.