Summer Term 2008

5s Trip to Yorkshire
23 - 27 June

Annabel Hickson:
On 23rd June, the 5s set off for Yorkshire.  On the coach we played Top Trumps and Connect Four and we also all enjoyed Mr Bean’s Holiday which made us all laugh.

Archie Boyle:
We stopped at Rutland Water for lunch.  It is about half way to York.  It is the largest man made lake in England’s smallest county and we had seen it in a Geography lesson.  The lake is lovely and the ducks, geese and swans came to sit near us.

Annabel Edwards:
We were all so excited about arriving in York.  It looked such a nice place.  We unpacked in our rooms and then had a fire drill, so we felt safe. We got changed and some of us had showers.

Oliver C-H:
We had time for a quick walk and then had a 3 course meal.  Mr Moore read us a bedtime story and we were feeling tired and ready for bed.

Susannah Watson:
In the morning, we were a little early for the museum so we went into St Mary’s church and I was amazed.  A Japanese artist had made a little river in the church.  You could have a wish or say a prayer, light a candle and put it to float on the river.

Pippa Branfoot:
It was very relaxing and we watched the candles float to the other end.  When the candle reached the end, the prayer or wish was taken upwards to reach the heavens on some tall glass rods.  The church was very old, founded in 1020.

Tife Osho:
We went on a time machine to A.D 975 at the Jorvik Centre. We learned a lot about the Vikings including smelling some terrible smells that were around then.

Ivo:
Next we went to a place called DIG.  We learned about the job of an archaeologist and we did some digging ourselves to find bones and things like that.  Some of the things were very old. My mum joined us for lunch with some delicious chocolate birthday cake.

Helena St John:
We talked about what we would put in a time capsule and I thought I would put a watch, a game boy, a mobile phone, an electric toothbrush, some money and a passport.

William Payne:
After lunch, we went to the  Railway Museum.  It was brilliant.  We looked at Mallard which was the fastest steam train in the world at that time. Then we went to the Yorkshire Wheel which is a bit like the London Eye, and there was a fantastic view of York from the top.

Holly Allen:
The girls all went on a cruise on the river which told us about the history of York.  Mrs Costin bought us a lolly and we wandered slowly back to the hotel past York Minster and we looked at a few shops.

William Womersley:
On Wednesday we went to Eden Camp which is a World War 2 Museum built in an old prisoner of war camp.  Each hut showed something different about the war.  Some had smells of war like when a bomb had dropped. There was a u-boat and we could hear the echoes under the sea.

Alistair Gethin:
There were 29 huts and a children’s assault course which was really good fun. We spent a lot of time chasing around it. There were tanks and aeroplanes from WW2 and we knew a lot about it from our history lessons.

Aiko Eliot:
After lunch, which we had in a mess hut, we went on to Scarborough’s amazing beach. We got changed and swam in the freezing sea.  Mr Moore bought us some rock.  I didn’t like mine because it tasted HORRIBLE!  We enjoyed an exciting ride with some pirates into the bay.

Nikko:
We tried some sea food and I think we all felt really happy on the beach.  We were hoping to play more games but a huge dark cloud came and then it was raining heavily so we made a dash for the bus.

Gus Turner:
On Thursday, after a good night’s sleep, the football match and a very good breakfast, we went to Pickering.  We went on a steam train which took us up into the Yorkshire Moors.  We had lunch on a very high spot and it was really, really windy.

Lily Innes:
Mr Moore had to run after our lunch bags.  We went on to Whitby and went shopping.  We had £5 each and I bought Whitby toffee and something for my brother Andrew to hang on his door as it’s nearly his birthday.  There were lots of fishing boats in Whitby.

Tilly Butcher:
I bought some fudge for my parents.  On the way home we went to Goathland where the series Heartbeat was filmed. We saw the pub, the garage, the bus and police car.

Tilly Grace:
I looked out of the old fashioned wooden train and managed to get soot on my face!

Whitby is also famous for the Whitby jet.  It is a rock found in between other rocks and we had heard about it in Geography. 

Fred Cox:
I did some shopping and then we had a very good ice-cream which was made in Yorkshire.  We climbed on the coach and I went to sleep almost straight away. 

Lily St. John:
Each evening we enjoyed having a shower and coming down to supper.  The food was very good.  We had a tidy room competition which I think my dorm may have won.  We were marked each night and morning. We had a story before bedtime with some nice hot chocolate.

Georgina Higson Smith:
We were very well organised on Friday morning and had packed most of our stuff. We passed the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Village.  He was a Quaker who tried hard to give poor people good jobs in his chocolate factory and nice houses to live in.

Isabella Hall:
It took about three hours to get to Rutland Water again where we had lunch.  I think the ducks were pleased to see us again and were hoping to share our lunches.

Helena Foord:
It was a very good trip and these are the memories I have:  
The floating candles on the river in the church.
Beep. Beep, Error, Error on the time machine.
Looking at the tray of bones at Dig.
All of us on the boat cruise.
A World War 2 aeroplane.
Us all eating rock on the coach.
The boats at Whitby.

Juan and Carlos:
And arriving home to the best school in the world!