Eighteen girls from the Fifth and Sixth Forms toured the classical Greek and Roman sites of Turkey during a nine-day Easter holiday trip led by Ms Lucy Holden and accompanied by Head of Sixth Form Mrs Lesley Bailey.

See our picture gallery of the Classics trip to Turkey

The party flew from Manchester to Dalaman and began their adventure the following day with a visit to the ancient city of Caunos before boarding a gulet boat to view the rock-cut royal tombs on the Lycian coast.

The itinerary also included visits to the Mausoleum and the Castle of the Knights of St John's Underwater Archaeology Museum at Bodrum, the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, the spectacular ruins at Ephesus and the nearby remains of the Temple of Artemis.