Students from a school in Bicester recently took the trip of a lifetime to Kenya to volunteer and learn more about the culture. 

During the trip year 13 students from The Cooper School spent time volunteering at a school, which involved teaching a class of children aged seven, as well as helping in a school kitchen.

The students taught a music lesson in which they taught the children the Hokey Pokey, which was a "big hit".

The kitchen staff taught the students how to make traditional native food such as chapati, by mixing the ingredients, forming the dough, rolling it out and cooking it on a hot plate.

They then served the food to the children, before departing from the school to visit a dump as an "eye opening experience" into the slums.

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The school said one of the highlights for many of the students at The Cooper School was serving the students in Kenya their lunchtime meal.

During the trip some students also helped by painting a new classroom, with others continuing to fix metal mesh to the insides of the windows to reinforce them.

After an emotional goodbye, they headed to a Nakuru dumpsite where approximately 150 families live.

As the students walked up the hill, all that could be seen was an avalanche of rubbish stretching for what looked like miles.

A spokesman for The Cooper School said: "This experience was a real eye opener for the students and as difficult as it was, it was also so heart-warming for the students to know that they were helping the locals by buying gifts they had made from the materials at the dump which were so incredible.

"The students and staff had a great time and have gathered memories and learning experiences that will last a lifetime."

The students then travelled to the Maasai Mara, where they saw wildlife including elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, jackals, cows and goats, and discovered that Maasai Mara is 176 times bigger than Bicester.

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The students also saw many other animals such as wildebeest, buffaloes, ostrich, elephants and zebras and walked along a river full of hippos and Nile crocodiles.

The year 13s thankfully did not miss out on the England game as staff at the camp allowed the students to watch the match.

The next day students started off in Maasai village, introduced with a traditional welcoming dance, with many of the students invited to join and embrace the culture by dancing alongside them.

They were then invited into the houses of the Maasai leaders who educated them on everything surrounding the village before travelling home the next day.