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Daily diary as reported from France:- Sunday 14 March 2010 Travelling over to France.....
Monday 15 March 2010 Everyone awoke early and spent the morning having a tour of the Chateau and playing games. In the afternoon, one group took part in an assault course whilst the other group tried out fencing.
Tuesday 16 March 2010 This morning our Form 6 pupils visited the market to purchase food for their lunchtime picnic followed by a visit to Mont St Michel and the supermarche! The weather is glorious....more news soon.
Wednesday 17th March 2010 Unfortunately, the telephone reception has been very poor and Mme Hall has only been able to provide sporadic telephone updates. However, we continue to receive photographs by email. More activities and games today plus an evening out at a restaurant....
Thursday 18th March 2010 Everyone is continuing to have a wonderful time and have participated in canoeing, fencing, archery and a French lesson today. Tonight is French night...Mme Hall is looking forward to donning her beret and we are all looking forward to hearing who eats the snails and frogs legs!
Here are some photo's of the French night...everyone looking the part with their berets and moustaches!
The evening meal included escargots and everyone tried at least one....some even asked for second and third helpings!
Friday 19th March 2010 All is well at the Chauteau. The weather is not as good as it has been but it is dry and the children are all having great fun....kneading dough and baking bread.
An early start tomorrow...up at 5am!
Form 5 Field Trip to Preston Montford Each year our Form 5 pupils have the opportunity to go on a 4 night residential to carry out fieldwork. In spite of some rain our Form 5 pupils enjoyed the outdoors to the full - activities included orienteering, small mammal trapping, pond investigation, taking river measurements and a valley and ridge walk at Ashes Hollow.
Form 4 visit to the Space Centre Form 4 spent the day at the Space centre as part of their Earth, Sun and Moon topic in Science. We started off with a theatre show in the Space theatre all about the Earth, Sun and Moon. We then looked around the galleries and climbed the 150 steps to get to the top of the rocket tower. After lunch, we did a workshop where everyone got to make their own rocket and launch it.
Form 3 visit to Harvington Hall
First we got off the coach and saw a huge building surrounded by a deep moat. It was like a mansion! After we put our packed lunch down we went to the chapel and Dr Dodd’s library to see the priest hides. They were for Catholic priests to hide from the searchers sent from King Henry VIII. The library’s priest hole was the cleverest. I loved being inside the priest hole.
about what they carried on their belt. I enjoyed this quite a lot.
guides had worked hard on the shop. Later we went to the Great chamber to see what the Tudors would have worn to a party. The clothing was fancier than I thought. We also saw how the Tudors did their old fashioned dancing. We had a go at doing a dance. I found this extremely easy. It was very different to the dancing we do now.
Howard and Catherine Parr) and the things the Tudors used in the wars and ship battles. This was really interesting. ……and two long coach journeys! Form 5 visit to the Islamic Exhibition Centre
Recount by George 5GH favourite section was the Family Life Section. We dressed up too. We learnt that there were 99 names for Allah and that a spider spun a giant web on the cave entrance so that no one could get in and there were dove eggs so that people would think the cave was deserted. We also went to a real mosque. I was amazed, the dome was beautiful. There were 3550 prayer mats and there was a chair as pretty as a throne. The man who sits on the chair is called an Iman. Recount by Tahmeena 5GH I liked dressing up as a muslim and having my picture taken. I learnt that there were more than 1000 prophets. You should start fasting at the age of 13. I liked it when we had a quiz. I also know that Muhammad was the last prophet on Earth. I also learnt that there are 99 names for Allah. I liked the part when we had to write our name in Arabic and did some colouring in the Fun and Activities Section. I liked the models that were showing the mosques and the routes that the prophets took to get to places and I especially liked the model of the cave with a spider’s web and dove eggs. I also learnt a few names of muslim scientists. |
