In Germany children receive a ‘cone’ (Schultüte) of gifts and sweets on their first day at school. This September, the pupils in Inglefield House pretended it was their first day in a German school and made similar ‘cones’, which were packed with goodies.

This autumn, our  German assistant, Fräulein Mertes, has been helping the girls of Inglefield House to fashion Kastanien (conkers) into animals, an activity practised by many German children.