Our class trip to Hampton Court(M)

We got there on a train reading books! We still had quite a way to walk still before we got to the gates of Hampton Court. On the gates, there was metal with fake metal pears on it! They were painted beautifully in gold! I think they look really good and I expect the builders and the painters like it too!

Once we got in, we put our coats and bags on a peg thing near a teaching room. We went in and a nice lady taught us about the Tudors, and their portraits. We all watched a slide show about how to draw portraits. The lady then gave us sketch pads and stencils and sketched a portrait of our Tudor model, Valentin!

Next, we picked up our bags and coats with us and went to have our lunch in the lunch room. We only had 10 minutes to finish our lunch! I was very full after lunch and it linked to our next stop, the kitchens!

In the kitchens, we found fake food and mostly fake pies! Mrs Buck let us off in the room and we found fake soup, knives,fish, fire ,fresh meat, soup scooper and fake bowls. When we got to the nearly last room, it had real onions,lettuces, fire and herbs. there were a few plastic eggs on straw though. Next stop, Henry's Drama room!

We met a pretend Henry there! He was doing a show with other people. Mrs Buck gave me and Briony a metal heart to present as a gift to Henry the VIII with Lady Margaret. Henry loved it and said he would hang it on his bedroom wall! Then we went to the gardens.

In the gardens, there were lots of beautiful flowers and plants. They all had a label with the plant name on. In the back row, I even found a flower whose label was written in Chinese! Wasn't I lucky?!

I enjoyed our first year 4 trip. It was the best trip ever(and the most tiring trip ever!)! Then, we went back to school!