Taylorian 2020

72 S ixteen Lower Sixth students met our teachers - Mr Hughes, Miss Hustwitt and Dr Lomas - at Terminal 5 for a short flight over to Geneva. After a picturesque journey over the Alps we arrived. After heading out for pizza and finding out just how expensive Geneva is, we came back and bedded down, ready for our tour of CERN the next morning.  Upon arrival at CERN the next day we received our crash course in particle physics from an OMT working there at the time. We then headed out to see the control centre, which wouldn’t look out of place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre. After further visits around the enormous site on the Franco-Swiss border, we saw the ATLAS control centre, where many of CERN’s greatest breakthroughs were made, including the observation of the Higgs boson. After lunch in the physicists’ cafeteria, we headed to Lake Geneva, a beautiful freshwater lake with amenities such as climbing boulders, water polo, and diving boards. After spending a warm afternoon in the sun, we headed out after dinner on an evening walk along the waterfront to see the Jet d’Eau lit up in spectacular colours. An eventful day came to a thrilling end with a game of poker, this time with the teachers involved. In the morning we headed to a solar and hydro-electric power plant on the outskirts of the city, where we saw the dam in full force and got up close and personal with the enormous turbines, hearing the hum and crackle of the power lines feeding the city. Moving on from there, we headed to the Red Cross Museum, where we were given a guided tour of exhibits such as gifts fromprisoners of war to Red Cross workers and the original Geneva convention, and learnt in detail how the Red Cross operates around the world, both in the past and in the present. On our way back to the hotel we saw the exterior of the UN Office with its many flags and fountains. I would like to thank our teachers for putting up with us for so long, and Miss Hustwitt for organising such a great trip. Daniel Jones (U6) Trips Trips Physics trip to CERN Work Experience in Austria S ix German A Level students took part in yet another successful work experience trip to Klagenfurt, Austria. The boys worked in departments such as ‘Citizen Services’, ‘Debt Collecting’, ‘Population Research’, ‘Personnel‘, and ‘Urban Planning and Construction’. It was a great opportunity to improve their spoken and written German. The trip also involved a tour of the University of Klagenfurt, where two of our students enjoyed an intensive German summer course offered by the university free of charge. A huge thank you goes to Mr Evans-Evans for accompanying us. Mrs C E Udell