Hi all, sorry for the late post, we have been busily helping our lovely year 6s get their bedding sorted. It’s fair to say some have had more success than others but with a little coaching from Mr Williamss, all was well.
Mrs Goalen has been briefing the girls on her dorm points system; her idea consists mainly of French pastisserie for dorm names and a complex points system for inspections. I look forward to seeing what the girls have in store for their inspections – dancing, bows on beds, singing are all not unheard of. It still feels a bit strange to be yelling across the field – ‘can everyone in millefeuille dorm come over to me please!’ But I’m sure we will get used to it.
As regards our journey, we had a slight delay getting over but the ferry was an exciting way to kick things off, the children got to see the white cliffs of Dover disappear into the distance as we sailed away, at this point a child pointed said cliffs and asked ‘is that France?’ – I politely informed them that we had only been travelling for 5 minutes and we still had to cross a small pool of water called the English Channel.
Nausicaa aquarium once again went down really well and the cries of ‘wow ‘ and ‘woah’ when the sea lions swam beneath us was a really nice moment.
Spirits were high on the coach thanks to our superb drivers Stuart and Ian, Stuart has come armed with a mountain of Haribo products which acted as suitable motivation for a good old fashioned game of bingo. We had two lucky children yelling BINGO to bag themselves a prize.
I will leave you all for now as I’m going to check in at the boys dorm – all of the children are happy and raring to go for the week.
Tomorrow it’s a tour of Rouen in the morning and we are going to visit a Nazi WW2 bomb factory on the way home, this is a first for a St Mary’s France trip and promises to be of great interest to us all.
I will try and blog tomorrow and hopefully I can make it a bit funnier!
Keep your eye on Twitter for pictures from tomorrow’s missions 🙂
Mr Powell