Tuesday, 5 March 2013

FRANCE 2013 - Day 1

Bonjour, we have arrived safe and well after a calm and sunny crossing.  After a long day travelling we arrived at Nausicaa aquarium for a quick look at various marine life.  Then we continued on to the Chateau for tea, which was a delicious sweet and sour chicken, full of excitement for the week ahead.  Look out for our blog this week.







TATTENHALL VISIT

Tuesday 5th March 2013

We woke up bright and early this morning - 6.30am for some of us!  After breakfast, Tom Theatre joined us at the Tattenhall Centre to conduct our day of drama.  He taught us some fanastic drama games, which helped us to warm up our bodies and our voices.  Tom taught us how to become a character and then stay in character.  We learnt how to turn our bodies into a ship, how to become a stormy sea and how to project our voices so that they can be heard by an audience.  We have certainly learnt a lot of drama skills today, which will help us with our production in May at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.  Today has been a lovely sunny day and so we have enjoyed time playing on the adventure playground again.  We have eaten very well, in fact we have probably all put weight on over the past few days!  We had a hearty breakfast, a huge lunch and we have just polished off spaghetti bolognese or sausage and mash followed by crumble and custard or fruit.  I think we will all sleep well tonight!  We will have lots of news to share with you tomorrow.




Monday, 4 March 2013

TATTENHALL 2013

We arrived safely at the Tattenhall Outdoor Education Centre at approximately 10.30am.  We were given a guided tour of the centre and then we chose our bunks in the domitories.  It was such a beautiful sunny morning that we went outside and enjoyed playing on the adventure playground.  After 30 minutes of playing, we were all feeling hungry and so we ate our lunch.  Mr Astbury arrived at the centre at 1pm.  He told us some interesting information about the Tudors and then we went on a walk through the village of Tattenhall.  Mr Astbury is like a walking Wikipedia!  He knows lots of things about the Tudors.  He was able to answer lots of our questions.  We now know about Tudor entertainment, food, clothing and lots more.  We wrote it all down in our notebooks before we forgot everything.  Tea was served at 5pm.  We had pizza or chicken gougons followed by rice pudding or fruit.  Lots of us had seconds.  It was delicious.  After tea we were impatient to get into our pyjamas.  Hot chocolate and a story to end the day is perfect!  Lets hope we all have a good nights sleep.