PUPILS from Cowley High School are about to jet out on the trip of a lifetime on Monday, July 12.

A party of 42 students and seven staff are embarking on a tour to Barbados.

The party includes two cricket teams, playing 11 games and a netball squad playing five games.

This is the school's first mixed sports tour abroad.

But it has previously toured Russia, Argentina, Canada, Australia and South Africa.

And this is the third trip to Barbados, having been there previously in 1990 and 1993.

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