Today Nursery went on a trip to Framlingham Castle. The
children walked there and back brilliantly, listening to their adults and
keeping safe. When we got to the castle we shouted down the well to see if
there were any dragons living there. We enjoyed listening to the echo, but
didn't get an answer from any dragons. Some of the children wondered if they
might be asleep.
We sat on the grass and read our book "In the
Castle". We noticed that the castle in the book looked very much like our
Framlingham Castle, with a similar doorway and walls. The book helped us learn
about life long ago when people lived in castles. We had a gallop as knights
across the grass and then walked like Kings and Queens. We then climbed the
scaffold stairs to the wall and walked all the way round, looking at the mere,
church and houses. We spotted narrow windows for firing arrows through to keep
the enemies away and fireplaces, towers and chimneys. When we were just about
to come back down one of the children spotted a dragon by the door on the top
of the wall! We thought he looked lonely so we took him down to have snack with
us. We had a run, found some numbers and then we practised our storytelling
song before heading back to school. We decided that the dragon might like
someone to look after him and so we brought him back to Nursery with us to meet
Red our counting dragon. We wondered if they might be cousins. Fancy finding a
dragon at the castle after all!
The children were a delight, great fun and good company on our
adventure. We were very proud of them all!
A HUGE thank you to our helpers too!
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| Sharing a book at the castle |
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| Wall walk |
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| Being dragons! |
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| Looking at the mere from the top of the wall |
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| Our new dragon friend! |
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| Singing in the castle. |
