Thursday, 20 January 2011

14th January 2011...

Today we did not have a meeting instead we had to put together a pre departure booklet for Prague, in our separate groups we had to find out different things to put into the booklet. Kaleigh is putting the booklet together and mine and Kristy’s role is to find what the climate is like in Prague using diagrams. Whilst we were researching the climate we found out that, Weather in Prague can change depending on the weather patterns. Prague has a continental weather climate with hot summers and cold winter. The best time to visit Prague is between May – September as this is usually when the weather is controllable, as its not too hot and not too cold, and the city is not overcrowded. During the summer period temperatures can usually reach 35C and in the winter can reach -15C. Spring and summer are usually he months to have the sunniest hours. Snow is rare in Prague during winter and rainfall is pretty much regular throughout the year, all seasons in Prague are beautiful, no matter what the weather is like.
As well as find out what the climate is like in Prague we also had to send Kaleigh the details of the flight details to add to the pre departure booklet the flight details are:
Flight Details
Flight 3065
London Standard to Prague 10th May 2011 16:40
Dep:  10th May 2011 1640
Arr: 10th May 2011 19:30
Flight 3066
Prague to London Stansted 13th May 2011 20:00
Dep:  13th May2011 20:00
Arr:  13th May 2011 20:55
Hand baggage
1 piece per passenger
Checked baggage
0 checked bags between all passengers combined up to a total combined weight of 0kg.
As we are travelling with hang luggage only we can pre-print our boarding pass before we go online and go straight to security at the airport.
Total cost of flights £759.56 being £69.05 per person.
Booking Reference: EHF1H9B

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Booking the Flights!...

Monday 10th January
On Monday Kristy and I booked the flights to Prague, this was because easyJet had a sale on a flights booked and this ended Tuesday. Me and Kristy booked the flights together as we are the Transport team and this is one of the jobs which we had to do. When you book the flights you must take everyone name down so we had do write everyone’s name making sure that they were spelt correctly. The flights were cheap compared to when we last looked at them. We have decided as a group that we would only be taking hand luggage which means that we will save time and check-in online and this saves us time at the airport. We are travelling to Prague on 10th May 2011 – 13th May 2011. We are flying from London Stansted airport, we have to be at the airport 2 hours before departure the flight is due to take off at 16:40 and land in Prague at 19:30. We fly back from Prague on 13th May and out flight departure time is at 20:00 and we are due to land at London Stansted at 20:55. The total price for the flights was £759.56 and this is for 13 people to travel to Prague This works out as £69 per person.

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

First Fundraiser....

We did our first Fundraiser on Friday 17th December, and we raised money for NSPCC this is a charity for children, and the event went really well and some of the money raised went towards our trip to Prague! We went round our college for about an hour to see if we can raise any money. We split up in groups to go around the college and these were Hayley, Steph D-C and Lorna, Ross, Steph B, Kristy and Gemma and Blaise, Kaleigh and me. As it was Christmas we all made an effort to look Christmassy and dressed as Elf’s or tried to wear something Christmassy. As it was the last day of term there weren’t many people at college, however we still raised £69.78 which was really good!! And it means that some of the money will go towards our Prague trip which means a little bit of the trip has been paid.
After we had raised the money Kaleigh and Lorna had to go to the finance department in the college to bank the money as they are the finance team. We are now planning our second fund raising event which will be sorted out by Blaise, Steph B and Hayley which means we will be able to raise more money!
I will keep you updated with everything which is happening! See ya later.

Saturday, 1 January 2011

First Meeting....

We had our first meeting on Friday 10th December, we had a list of things which we needed to do and as part of being on the transport team Kristy and I had to look at the prices of flights. As a group we all decided that we wanted to go to Prague on Monday 9th to Thursday 12th May we then all started to look at prices for the flights, we wanted to fly with easyJet and parents would drive us to and from the airport which means we wouldn’t have to pay for parking only petrol money.  We found out the flight roughly cost around £80 which means when we first looked at the prices they haven’t changed in price they have stayed the same which is good!!
As well as finding out prices for flights as a group we also looked at hotel prices, and attractions, however the meeting didn’t go that well as some people didn’t research the information which was needed.
We are trying to organise a fundraising event for on Friday 17th December, so come back to this page and see what happened!!