Solihull School students are expanding their horizons by taking on worldwide challenges after being awarded travel scholarships.
Seven Lower Sixth pupils at the independent school in Warwick Road have each received £200 towards their costs to work on social, educational and environmental projects in four continents over the next four months.
Lydia Jones and Jamie Turpin will be helping to teach English at The Wessex School at Concepcion in Chile, while Nick Hooper will be attending a course at an Ancient Greek summer school, each on an Ahlefeldt Pierson bursary.
The endowment set up by Gérard Pierson, a Solihull School teacher in the 1960s, encourages pupils to develop their understanding of a foreign language and culture through activities such as work experience.
Callum Fisher and Gregory Holland will be helping Shirley Baptist Church run a holiday club for orphans in Romania, while Christopher Bevins will be supporting wildlife at Imire Conservation Park in Zimbabwe as well as helping local children.
All three will be travelling on Bushell scholarships, named after Solihull School’s headmaster W F Bushell from 1920 to 1927. The fund was added to in 1998 by a large donation from the benchers of 1934 who met once a year for 50 years.
Elsewhere Jacob Small will be trekking the Tamang Heritage Trail in Nepal and raising money for New Futures Nepal, a charity that helps orphans and disabled children, with a grant from the David Grilli Trust, set up in the name of a former Solihull School teacher to help support individuals in adventurous activities.
David E J J Lloyd, Solihull School Headmaster, said: “The awards recognise the energy, enthusiasm and determination that our pupils put in to furthering their own personal development while also helping others throughout the world.”
Seven Lower Sixth pupils at the independent school in Warwick Road have each received £200 towards their costs to work on social, educational and environmental projects in four continents over the next four months.
Lydia Jones and Jamie Turpin will be helping to teach English at The Wessex School at Concepcion in Chile, while Nick Hooper will be attending a course at an Ancient Greek summer school, each on an Ahlefeldt Pierson bursary.
The endowment set up by Gérard Pierson, a Solihull School teacher in the 1960s, encourages pupils to develop their understanding of a foreign language and culture through activities such as work experience.
Callum Fisher and Gregory Holland will be helping Shirley Baptist Church run a holiday club for orphans in Romania, while Christopher Bevins will be supporting wildlife at Imire Conservation Park in Zimbabwe as well as helping local children.
All three will be travelling on Bushell scholarships, named after Solihull School’s headmaster W F Bushell from 1920 to 1927. The fund was added to in 1998 by a large donation from the benchers of 1934 who met once a year for 50 years.
Elsewhere Jacob Small will be trekking the Tamang Heritage Trail in Nepal and raising money for New Futures Nepal, a charity that helps orphans and disabled children, with a grant from the David Grilli Trust, set up in the name of a former Solihull School teacher to help support individuals in adventurous activities.
David E J J Lloyd, Solihull School Headmaster, said: “The awards recognise the energy, enthusiasm and determination that our pupils put in to furthering their own personal development while also helping others throughout the world.”