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If you find a red balloon, perhaps in fragments, with a tag attached to it, look carefully - it may be one of the 40 released by pupils from St Gerards School on St George’s Day, the school’s 40th birthday. At 1pm on Wednesday lunchtime, after an excited and dramatic chorused countdown from forty to zero, forty chosen pupils released their specially numbered balloons, each one tagged with the School’s address. Pupils and Staff watched as the helium-filled spheres sailed into the air, gradually shrinking into tiny red dots in the sky as they headed south east , towards Minworth., Coleshill.., Coventry…, …..London……. Italy……….. Kenya……….. Australia ???
The person who finds the balloon that has travelled furthest will be given a prize… and so will the pupil who released it. By Friday afternoon, an anxious school waited….. no news yet.
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