The battlefields trip is a journey that a few year 9’s will never forget. The journey to France started outside Skipwith house. As soon as everyone was on the coach we drove to Dover in high expectations, however we where all exhausted from the 5am start. We all arrived in France after having an interesting boat journey over the channel. We visited the first of many cemetery’s and were amazed by the stories of the deaths of thousands of young solders. After we finished all of the battlefields and cemetery, we started heading off to the hotel called the Tea Room and so we all headed up stairs and went to bed. And so our first day our battlefields trip was over.
It was day two and we headed off to the battlefields for the whole day. We were all in deep shock when we saw the huge craters and shell explosions in the trenches and not to mention the space between the German and British trenches. Once again we go back to the hotel at about 7pm in France. We all settle into the hotel for the last night. After a restful night at the Holiday Inn express we all made our way back to Shiplake to be reunited back with our parents. To be quite honest he best part of the trip must have been watching the fantastic film of War Horse on the way back to England, but I did spot mistake in the movie and surprisingly that was that the German trenches being straight, the reason this is wrong is because the trenches had be curved because of a few reasons. For instance you can not down shoot a bullet through the trenches with there being curves of mud around the trenches.
I would like to thank …
Mrs. Stratton
Mr. Cooksey
Mr.& Mrs. Brown
Mr. Morgan
by Christian H. Marks
