BISHOP Perowne CofE College students visited sites of artistic and cultural interest along a route between their school and one in Birmingham.

This was part of the E-pic project, which is a collaboration between Year 7 and 8 students from Bishop Perowne, Birmingham's Hippodrome Theatre, Moorlands Primary School in Birmingham and Meadow Community Arts.

Students from Bishop Perowne spent a day at the Hippodrome getting together ideas for the project and recording a song.

Following this, the road trip gave them an opportunity to take video and photographs of different sites of cultural and artistic interest.

During the trip they visited Gheluvelt Park, Worcester, taking photographs of the war memorial and learning about its historic significance.

They then went on to Sandwell Valley Farm Museum where they were able to get lost in the maze, admire the collection of animals and hear about the history of the local community.

The final stop was Dudley Canal Tunnel where they met up with students from Moorlands Primary school for some lunch and a trip on the canal boats.

Some of the students had a go at 'legging' the boat through the tunnel and discovered that this had once been a common way of moving the boats along.

The aim of the project is to produce a DVD of the students' experiences and to circulate this to other schools as a sharing of good practice.