Our Trip To Hampton Court
Year 5's trip to Hampton Court all started at school doing all the boring things for instance, toilets, stickers and getting put into our groups. Since everyone waned to get that over and done with, in no time everyone was on the coach ready for a 1 and a half hour journey to one of Henry VIII's many palaces, Hampton Court.
We arrived at about 10:45 and we had another toilet stop. This one was quicker and without any problems Yr 5 Drew went straight to their first activity. The Audio Guides. This we did in our groups. So we quickly got the audio guides and set off. At first their was an introduction on Hampton Court, then more and more information, The first part mainly told us about the carvings on the walls and the stained glass mirrors. One of my faviroute rooms was a room called the horn room. And guess what this was full of? Horns of deer and elks that Henry VIII had presumably shot when he went hunting back in his time. When that was over everyone was starving because it was about 12:00 which, back at our school, was lunch time.
However we still had another tour to go, this time it was the kitchen tour and that was held by two men called Robin and Mark.First they gave us an intro on the different jobs people had if they were part of the kitchens. Next they took us to a few rooms. We got to see the meat and the pasteries, we even got to see and smell different herbs such as thyme, rosemary and sage. Then they took us to this room were they would boil a massive stew type thing that could take up about six children. At the banquets they would usually have up to about 600 people so it would be a lot of hard work.
Finally lunch arrived with the sun still scorching down on us. We went on to a grassy area and had our lunch whilst some people went to the toilet. Once everyone had finished their lunch we all took up our bags and headed off to what was thought to be the best part of the trip. The MAZE! Not wasting a second the whole class were let into the maze. Every single one of us were running around madly. I was in a bit of a group at one point and it took us about 1 and a half minutes to get to the centre. Bert got to the middle first. However some girls, not mentioning any names to a lot longer which was fine because we were all having fun.
Our final activity was an exhibition. The young Henry exhibition, in this one our teacher told us to find three intresting facts individually. And it was a lot of fun. Now it was the end of the trip though so we just had to say "Good bye Hampton Court" and with that we were on our way back to school.
Year 5's trip to Hampton Court all started at school doing all the boring things for instance, toilets, stickers and getting put into our groups. Since everyone waned to get that over and done with, in no time everyone was on the coach ready for a 1 and a half hour journey to one of Henry VIII's many palaces, Hampton Court.
We arrived at about 10:45 and we had another toilet stop. This one was quicker and without any problems Yr 5 Drew went straight to their first activity. The Audio Guides. This we did in our groups. So we quickly got the audio guides and set off. At first their was an introduction on Hampton Court, then more and more information, The first part mainly told us about the carvings on the walls and the stained glass mirrors. One of my faviroute rooms was a room called the horn room. And guess what this was full of? Horns of deer and elks that Henry VIII had presumably shot when he went hunting back in his time. When that was over everyone was starving because it was about 12:00 which, back at our school, was lunch time.
However we still had another tour to go, this time it was the kitchen tour and that was held by two men called Robin and Mark.First they gave us an intro on the different jobs people had if they were part of the kitchens. Next they took us to a few rooms. We got to see the meat and the pasteries, we even got to see and smell different herbs such as thyme, rosemary and sage. Then they took us to this room were they would boil a massive stew type thing that could take up about six children. At the banquets they would usually have up to about 600 people so it would be a lot of hard work.
Finally lunch arrived with the sun still scorching down on us. We went on to a grassy area and had our lunch whilst some people went to the toilet. Once everyone had finished their lunch we all took up our bags and headed off to what was thought to be the best part of the trip. The MAZE! Not wasting a second the whole class were let into the maze. Every single one of us were running around madly. I was in a bit of a group at one point and it took us about 1 and a half minutes to get to the centre. Bert got to the middle first. However some girls, not mentioning any names to a lot longer which was fine because we were all having fun.
Our final activity was an exhibition. The young Henry exhibition, in this one our teacher told us to find three intresting facts individually. And it was a lot of fun. Now it was the end of the trip though so we just had to say "Good bye Hampton Court" and with that we were on our way back to school.