Bournville pupils challenged to rewrite Italian Job's ending

Jan 2 2009 by Tony Collins, Birmingham Mail

the coach, switch on the engine and stay there for four hours until all the petrol ran out. The coach then bounces back up so the gang gets out, but the gold ends up going over the cliff where members of the Mafia are waiting to grab it.

Dame Elizabeth Cadbury teacher James McCormick said that the gold challenge would be one of a day of tests themed around the well-known film.

“For example, the maths department will be getting pupils to work out how much a mini-boot of gold is worth, and the most efficient way to stack it, while the ICT department is helping pupils plan a getaway route from central Birmingham back to school.

“Thankfully, the RE department will also encourage the pupils to consider the morality of robbery, so we are not expecting a spate of robberies.”

The project is being supported by BMW dealership Sytner Birmingham, which is lending pupils a Union Flag-painted Mini to test their ideas on.

Teachers are leaving the task of choosing a winner to representatives of Coventry Transport Museum and the Birmingham Museum of Jewellery.