Thomas Adams Modern Foreign Languages

About 100 pupils and 10 teachers will be going to Paris for Easter 2008. We are going for 4 days leaving on Wednesday 19th March and returning on Saturday 22nd March. We will be staying in a purpose built centre about an hours drive from Paris. We will tour Paris for one full day, going up the Eiffel Tower and sailing along the Seine on a bateau mouche. In the afternoon we will visit the Sacre Coeur and the artists’ market. On the second day we will visit Paris Eurodisney. You should look out for blanche neige and the barbe a papa !

We’re all hoping for ‘la vie en rose’ ! It sounds good….

Mrs Pond

There are 34 pupils and 4 teachers who will be heading for the home of the Christmas Market in Cologne on Thursday 13th December. We will be flying by Easyjet and staying in the Meininger Youth Hostel in the centre of Cologne. If it is successful it will be available to more pupils next year.

It should be a great way to practise your German and to kick start Christmas !

Mrs Pond

I found the french trip a fun trip. even on the bus journey i found it fun. when we got to france we didnt go to the hotel we went straight to the cheese farm. we couldnt find it at first but after an extra hour we found it, so oviously we didnt have as long as what we first expected to walk around witch was ok because the smell was awfull and there wasnt really that much there to do. so we moved on to the water park where we spent the rest of the day there. we went back to the hotel where we had tea and spent the first night.on the second day we went to we did the history tour. we went to w world war one memorial and a medievil battle scene. we went back to the hotel were we had activities. on the third day of the trip we went to a theme park witch was the most enjoyable trip we went on. the next day we went to a market and brought our gifts. we headed back. and that was the end of our trip. it was overall a great trip.

We went on a trip to St. Omer in France from
Monday 4th of July to Friday 8th of July.
We stayed at the Chateau d’ebblingham. It was better than your week! Read the rest of this entry »

Well the French Trip was fun wasn’t it? We went to st. Omar, quite alot of people got bus sick because we travelled alot of the time. On the journey down we travelled for nearly 12 hours. The best bits were the theme park

Tuesday 4th July 2006

We left Thomas Adams school at 00:30 hours. I managed to get the back seat on the coach with my friends Sarah, Lauren, Beth and Ashley. We set off on the road to France. We were expecting to be on the bus for 6 - 7 hours to Dover, then to catch the ferry to France. Beth and Lauren slept for about three hours. Sarah and I only slept for an hour.

When we got to Dover we were told we could get straight onto the ferry which was just about to leave. We were on the ferry for about an hour and a half. At least we could walk around and stretch our legs. When we got off the ferry we set off to find the cheese and goat farm which was our first visit of the day. It took an hour to get to the area and another twenty minutes to find the actual farm, we were going around in circles!

When we found the farm we saw some goats and we tasted some sickly pancake stuff. After lunch we set off for the water park ‘Aqualud’. We were all looking forward to the water park because it was the weather was so hot.

When we got there we were told to take our shoes and socks off and then to goand get changed. The girls wore bikinis and the boys had to wear speedo’s. At Aqualud there was and indoor and outdoor section. The outdoor section had a green twisty slide, a yellow vertical slide, an octopus you had to try and jump on, a climbing frame and a track you had to go around in a rubber ring.

Inside there were three jaccuzzis, a big pool with a wave machine and a black hole slide which you went down in a rubber ring. There was also a ride called twister, where you slide around in bowl and then drop into a deep pool of water. There was one ‘cool’ slide that me and my friends all went on at the same time, sliding down and dropping into a pool then down another slide and dropping into a different pool etc. Lauren kept bumping into this good looking lad called Kevin. We stayed at Aqualud for 2 to 3 hours, on our way to the chateau (where we were going to be staying) we fell asleep on the back seat of the coach.

When we finally arrived at the chateau we unpacked and went for tea. For starter we had cheese pancakes, for main course chicken wedges and for dessert chocolate brownies.

After tea we played football for 3 hours then it was time for bed. I shared a room with Bethany, Lauren and Sarah. I slept on the top bunk.

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Hey ppl wat’s happin???

france where can I start???

DAY 1  

well…..1st we went 2 a goats cheese farm…OMG neva goin gain no offence 2 da lady but it stank and to be quiet onest I h8 animals part frm fish coz they cant touch ya… nxt we went to AQUALUD tht was awesome i went on da blk hole tht was alrite..but I wnt on da rapids loads I luvd it!

DAY 2

2day we went to a a WW1 museum der were loads of manikin things and they scraed the life outta me…I swear one of them was lookin at me  ………. nxt we went to another WW2 museum it was da battle of AGINCOURT OMG there was dis slideshow thing and the man tht was speakin in it kept sayin`THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT’ we were all wettin ourselves!

DAY 3

2day went to Lille to go shoppin I bought some florresent pink goth/e-mo gloves (whteva u wanna call them)… one of me roomies bought a mac frm mango and da best thing was tht it was on sale! Bargain!! lol….. nxt we went to a AWESOME theme park it was called Bellewarde and it was on the Ypres border, or something like tht. I went on niagara tht was a ace water ride coz I got drenched!

DAY 4

Last day wht a same I dont wanna go!!! well b4 we went home we went shoppin and I bought loads of stuff anything u can name!!!

C yal bye bye!!! lol XXXXXXXXXXXXX

On Wednesday we went to a world war 1 museum and memoral place it was “very interesting”.  We went into a sort of slide show about what would have happened during the war and what it would have looked like.  As we were listening to the last one all of a sudden there was a big thud on the floor.  WAZ had fainted through dehidration.  Pen, Ash and me were so frightened we were shaking.WAZ was ok in the end after miss had given him 2 glasses of water !

This was the best trip that I have ever been on. Because we went to so many cool places. So I’ve written a diary for each day to show what we did. Read the rest of this entry »

The trip to france was good the goat cheese farm took a long time to find when  we got to the farm it was very smelly after the goats cheese farm we went to aqulud it was really good becouse we got to cool down.

we weny to a world war 1 musium and we sour loads of graves and we there was also some trenches. we also went to a theme park and the rides were well cool there was some that soacked u and some that were high.

the best part was were we got to go shopping we went to a town and shopped for a while.

on the night we were going to france i thought that the year 7’s were early and everyone else was late.

the end …………………….  

the french trip was ace but …

4th july

at midnight we set of well it was not exactly midnight as miss was l8 but wen she arived we set of and left our familys behind that was upseting but fun and after a long 6 hours on the coach we cort the ferry at dover to france that took us a hour or so

then we wer in france we headed of to the smelly cheese farm(yukky)we wer given this pankake thing it was mank( i was nerly sick in france cos of the smell of the pankake )after this she showd us the goats she was so mean 2 them as ther was about 50 odd in 1 tiny pen and the calfs she was hitting them i could av cryed how she treted them

then we went to aqua lud that was fab it was the best thing we did in the hole week ther wer lots of slides and fab pools and stuff

5th july

we went 2 a war museum it was ok but a tad boring but okish

nxt thing was i carnt remember but o well it dont matter

6th july

we went shoping that was fun i bort lots of earings witch i love i went wiv alice becky+laura they are all me m8s cos they r fab

after that we went to the feam park that was fab but evary 1 left me but then i found ppl i went on the rappids 5 times

7th july

we went to a little village to go shopin 2 the market that was funny cos i bort some sweets and i did not under stand the lady as she was tkin in french then i asked her it in english and she did not under stand so i asked laura

then we set of 4 home thats it

The French Trip was really good. I found it really exciting, except we spent most of the time on the bus!  It felt like we were living on the bus!  On the Tuesday when we arrived in France we were going to go to a french cheese farm but we had trouble finding it, so Mrs Pond asked a farmer, but he didn’t know where it was so we were on our way to Aqualud (like waterworld) when we went past the cheese farm……but of course we had to stop there! On a really hot day we went to a really really really……………..smelly goat’s cheese farm.  The smell was absolutely revolting.After that we had our dinner on the way to Aqualad.  Aqualud was fantastic.We went to the indoor and outdoor swimming pool and went in the jacussi!  It was brilliant.We then went to the chateau where we stayed.

The next day we went to 2 museums. One was a war museum, called Notre Dame de Lorette and the other was a medieval museum at Agincourt (25 October 1415 !) between our visit of these museums we went to a dairy farm where we had lunch.  The food there smelt horrible, especially the cheese tart but the chips were nice and we got to drink coke.  Afterwards the lady at the farm took us to a basement where they age the cheese.It was sssssoooooooo funny because everyone was holding their noses.

The next day we went shopping in Lille and then ate our dinner on our way to a theme park in Belguim.  That was fantastic.  I had a really good time.  Me and my friends went on the rapids there like 4 times!

The next day was the day we left but before that we went to a french market at Aire sur le Lys where we went shopping for a bit!  There were lots of bargains.

Well. What can I say, absolutely fantastic! Its hard to choose what to talk about, so I might be here a while. Read the rest of this entry »

I found the french trip a fun trip. even on the bus journey i found it fun. when we got to france we didnt go to the hotel we went straight to the cheese farm. we couldnt find it at first but after an extra hour we found it, so oviously we didnt have as long as what we first expected to walk around witch was ok because the smell was awfull and there wasnt really that much there to do. so we moved on to the water park where we spent the rest of the day there. we went back to the hotel where we had tea and spent the first night.on the second day we went to we did the history tour. we went to w world war one memorial and a medievil battle scene. we went back to the hotel were we had activities. on the third day of the trip we went to a theme park witch was the most enjoyable trip we went on. the next day we went to a market and brought our gifts. we headed back. and that was the end of our trip. it was overall a great trip.

Un petit poulet = chicken.

DAY 1

Hello my name is Thomas and I am writing about the French trip we went on at the start of July, we had a really posh coach. We where on the coach all night then we went to a goat farm and got free waffle thingies. Later we went to a water park called aqualud and had loads of fun. For tea we had skankey cheesey pancakes for starter then, chicken, wedges and soggey brownies.

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Well we had an interesting time didn’t we? The French Trip 2006 was in st. Omar, it looked a bit like England. iI felt like we spent half of the time on the bus which isn’t good really! the first day we left at midnight, we were supposed to any way but some people were late including one of the teachers!!

The weather was good but it did thuner on the first night and kept people up. Miss got a little bit  very moody at midnight when people wouldn’t go to sleep, we couldn’t help being excited could we?!?

The next day was spent at museums one of which was the museum of the battle of Azincourt when was that again… 25th october 1415, I swear that it was brainwashing us!! next day was the theme park when everybody was wet from the rides including the teachers!We also whent to two french farms one sort of smelt a little bit.

But it’s all good we had a bunch of fun and i don’t think many people wanted to go home 1. because it was fun and 2. because people got tyravel sick!!!!!!

The French trip 2006 was very good we went for four days and it was very good on each day we went to at least two activities.

On the third day we went to a theme park in Belgium that is called Bellewarde it was very good and on one of the rides we got drenched.
 

The trip to the france was a long and boring bus journey. We set off from adams car park at 12am on Monday 3rd July. After 7 hours on the coach, and an hour on the ferry we arrived in France! The first place we went to was the Supermarket, and of course, the teachers felt the need to fill the coach with wine. After a short break we continued on our travels, next stop, the smelly cheese farm. It was really hot, and everyone was tired, so some people stayed out in the shade whilst others looked at how the cheese was made. After that we went to a swimming centre “Aqua Lud”. Some people went in, whilst some sunbathed. After the past exhausting 24 hours, we went back to our accomodation. ‘Chateau D’ebblingham’. We all had something to eat and then went straight to sleep. But then there was the Thunderstorm :-/. The rest of the week flew by, we went to some war museums, and a medival museum, and we also went shopping, but the best day was the theme park in Belgium. We went on the big water rides, and got completely saoked. So we ran upto the King Lion [not a real lion, a dressed up man] and hugged him! Overall this trip was really good, and we met some new friends on the boring bus journeys. Hope to go again soon..  

It was 12pm on the 3rd july 2006 in the school car park when we met to leave for france. Unfortunatly for the teachers, everyone was really loud because we were all so excited! The journey seemed to go on forever,  but eventually we got to the ferry port at Dover. We got straight on the ferry, because it was ready to leave, which was lucky because normally people have to wait to board the ferry. The ferry journey went really quickly, even though everyone felt ill from the bus journey! On the third day, we went to a theme park, that had lots of water rides. This was really fun because everyone was so hot! The trip went really quickly!

♥The French Trip♥
My favourite day on the French trip was actually the third day.

We went to a Theme Park in Belgium.

It was really really good [:

I liked the King Lion because he hugged us

&& he was a cool cool Lion [:

We all went on the big water ride.

&& Megan’s skirt went see-through

&&; so did my top

But it was okay, because we went on a big fast ride to dry us off.

The End__x

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When we went to France we went to the Aqualud it was so fun and i went on the rapids lots of times with Becci,Alice and also with Tom.we then went on a slide it was so fun we went on it about 25times. after we got out and got changed we got on the bus and me Alice,becci,tom and ben were messing about and talking to mr Queen. me and ben were playing the waving game. i was anoying mr Queen.

Monday 3rd July
 I got up at quarter to midnight to go and catch the bus from school. When we got there the bus wasn’t there and neither was Mrs Pond, so we waited for a few minutes and then the bus arrived and then a few more minutes later Mrs Pond arrived.
 

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