If you are reading this and thinking, ‘This sounds good but
full on’, then you are right – it is! The schedule is jam-packed with guest
speakers, presentations, events and activities. But perhaps, for our students,
the most important element of a Round Square Conference is simply the
opportunity to interact with so many students from so many other countries and
cultures. By day two, all of our students had fully overcome any initial nerves
and shyness which they may have felt. By day five, the situation of mixing with
so many people from so many different backgrounds has simply become ‘normal’.
When better, therefore, to throw a party?
Billed as The Evening
Under the Stars, this was most definitely an opportunity for everyone to
let their hair down. We were driven by coach into what seemed a remote
mountainous area and then had to climb up a steep set of stairs – and there,
miraculously at the top, was a large party-venue. Live bands all night,
barbecued food under the stars and, at the climax, 200 or so bongos released to
the audience for half an hour of inspirational communal drumming. The Round
Square has got it all…
Tom Vignoles
Felsted School
Deputy Head (Co-Curricular)
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