In addition to our curricular fieldtrips, in October 2006 the department ran a 5 day trip to Iceland. 40 girls took advantage of the opportunity to see this spectacular country. Highlights of the visit included a flight in a 9 seater plane to Heimaey and climbing Eldfell, where the ground is still hot to the touch after the eruption in 1973.

We were also taken in a 4x4 coach along a glacial trough to visit a pro-glacial lake into which the glacier was calving icebergs. The geysers at Geysir were spectacular and the waterfall at Gulfoss was simply breathtaking, as was the visit to the fault line along which the Eurasian and North American Plates are pulling apart.

Perhaps the ultimate highlight was seeing the Northern Lights on our last night and swimming in the Blue Lagoon (a geothermally heated spa) on our way back to the airport (All photographs of teachers’ faces covered in mineral mud are banned!). We plan to run the trip again in two or three years.