For the first time the Leavers' Trip took our Year 8's to France in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where they experienced everything from white water rafting to a local french tradition, a high ropes course and swimming in snow melt.
Here are some of their memories of the trip:
"The Leavers' Trip was the best I had ever been on. It was an early morning wake up call, but I was still energetic because I knew that in a few hours I would be in France ... When I arrived at school, I could tell people were excited, by seeing people bounding down the stairs."
"The flight was fine, even though there was some snoring coming from the teachers' direction."
"We arrived at the hostel in Seix and noticed straight away what we were in for - high mountain peaks and a rushing river excited the majority of us."
"On the first morning we were surprised with the dangerously fun (in some cases painful) experience of white water rafting."
"We got into our wetsuits and a few people looked a little like Borat and a few looked like Lara Croft."
"I think the whole year and not just me enjoyed rafting for the first time. I personally thought rafting when the river was dangerously high was the best, as well as when we got to jump out. One of my highlights was when Mr A-G jumped out of the raft and bobbed down the river, being hit by numerous rocks."
"During the festival of moving the animals up into the mountains, one of my highlights of the week came when Lee, Ollie, James and Spoons lost in a table football match against the girls and were forced to dance in the middle of all the parades."
"The second day was when the real adventure began and our four hour mountain hike commenced. We experienced some incredible weather conditions, which enabled us to act as more of a team."
"We were lucky in that the weather stayed fair all the way up, so it was a surprise to see snow at the summit."
We spent the night in a cosy refuge and enjoyed a well-deserved supper after a freezing cold swim in a mountain river of melted snow. I accidentally invented a slide down a waterfall, which left award winning cuts and bruises on my legs, but which everyone else enjoyed sliding down."
"That night, after supper, we sang old french mountain songs and then got some much needed sleep, even though I slept between Issy and Mrs Hoyland."
"The girls and Mrs Hoyland were all in one dorm with a massive "pyramid" bunk bed."
"On the second day of the walk, spirits started generally low as it was raining, but then Philly and some of the other girls started singing and we all joined in - this was another highlight of the week."
"I will now be remembered for my life saving rugby tackle, which saved the headmaster's wife from slipping down 50 metres of ice and off the edge of a cliff.
"To finish off the week, we did some high ropes, which were so high you felt like an ant."
"All in all, the week has been one of the best weeks of my life."
"I enjoyed the trip very much, but it was rather upsetting that it was my last Pinewood school trip."
With thanks to members of Year 8.
To view photos from the trip, please go to the Events Gallery.