Summer Newsletter 2020

Business & economics hit the
big apple
One of the highlights for Business and
Economics students in this strange academic
year was the department’s residential trip
to New York, which took place just before
lockdown in February 2020. Fifteen year 13
students met Miss Mellor and I at Gatwick
Airport early on the first Saturday of the
February half-term break. As the students
began to gather and say goodbye to their
parents (who were obviously all distraught
to see their teenage boys give them a few
days peace!) it appeared one of the party was
missing.
To save embarrassment, this student will be
given a false identity… “Ringo”. It appears
that Ringo decided to put on a ring (hence his
alias) before going to bed the night before.
This caused Ringo’s finger to swell, meaning he
couldn’t remove the ring the next morning. To
cut a long story short, after 5 firefighters and
half the staff of Boots failed to get the ring off,
Ringo and his mum had to head off to hospital
to have it removed (the airline would not let
Ringo fly due to the air pressure).
Fortunately, Ringo was able to join us the
following day, having only missed a morning’s
worth of the trip.
Having an early evening flight (UK time) we
landed at JFK Airport at just after midnight
and, having cleared border control, arrived at
the hotel at 2am. This is only 9pm US time, so
the boys were not yet ready for bed - I can’t
say the same for the staff!
The first morning we headed across the
road to George’s Diner for the boys’ first
experience of a American breakfast in a New
York diner. They were not disappointed,
as they demolished piles of pancakes and
fresh fruit or mounds of scrambled eggs and
bacon. Our first day was centred around
the Financial District. We had a talk and a
tour at the Federal Reserve Bank, where
the boys got to ride the elevator 80ft below
street level to see the largest store of gold
anywhere in the world.
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