Sri Lanka - October/November 2024

Our Sri Lanka Team 2024 enjoyed the most amazing experience in Sri Lanka this term. Our partner schools very much enjoyed working with Calthorpe Park students, who delivered a range of craft, sport. Drama and Music activities.

Thanks to Friday Fundraising and a wealth of initiatives the students have organised themselves, the total they have raised this year exceeded £15,000. This money has supported the building of a new preschool in a remote area of Eastern Province, supported a food programme across preschools funded by Ocean Stars Trust, and supported work in our partner schools in the town of Batticaloa.

For the first part of the trip, students visited temples, picked tea leaves at a plantation, saw elephants, both at an elephant orphanage and in the wild, and explored the historic city of Kandy, the final kingdom before British rule of then Ceylon. 

We have already recruited a team of students who will be joining us in Sri Lanka in 2025, but will be starting again the process of opening applications for our 2026 visit in the summer term this year.

Ross Walker and the Sri Lanka Team