On a glorious evening last Wednesday, Mr & Mrs Healy were delighted to welcome boarders and pupils in Year 7 and 8 (who had remained behind after school to attend revision classes) to their garden for a BBQ.

Music abounded and a compilation of Summer Garden BBQ Party Anthems were played on the PA system throughout the evening to add to the party atmosphere.

The catering team created some wonderful BBQ food and the pupils feasted on copious amounts of burgers, sausages and chicken legs as well as freshly prepared salad. For dessert, the children had a choice of Magnum ice creams which went down a treat.

The pupils were wonderful guests and had a great time, chatting, laughing, relaxing as well as playing various garden games which allowed then to expend some pent-up energy from a hard day’s work at School.

The photograph below shows two siblings, Karen and Karson, whose mother and two aunts where pupils at Bethany in the 1990s. The painting that they are holding was created by their aunt, Shirley, as a thank you gift to Mr and Mrs Healy when she left Bethany – this painting takes pride of place in their kitchen.

There are already some pupils looking forward to next year’s event with one Year 7 pupil offering Mr Healy some “pointers” on how he could improve it further for next year!