Our Day Out!

On Friday 12th July, 2002, we all went to Walberswick for the day - 250 children and 25 adults. Here are some memories of the day. You can also click on the little photos on the left and below to see them enlarged.

One of the first things we did when we got there was to have a paddle. It was a warm, sunny day,but the water was quite cold. However, it did warm up,either that or our feet went numb. A lot of people got soaked, and not necessarily by choice; some people were paddling while very large waves crashed on the shore and drenched them. Others decided to jump in. But even though we did get wet, everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. -Chelsie

When we were at Walberswick, we built a sandcastle. It was me,Jamie,Adam and Daniel. We had a moat; the water was from the sea. It did not dry up because we collected stones and put them in the bottom of the moat.We made the towers, and made the entrance door and put in detail with a thin stick. We collected shells and put them as the windows. We found a big feather and put it on the top tower. But later when we left we knocked it down, and that was the end of our giant sandcastle. - Lewis

The day we went to Walberswick, there were loads of sand dunes and prickly grass, it was called marram grass. It hurt and made my and Gina's feet bleed. Jumping off the sand dunes, we dived into the sand below. We got it here, there and everywhere. Apart from the Marram grass, we had a great time, and never wanted to go home. - Ellie

Firstly, I went paddling. It was cold at first, but I did get used to it. I went up to my knees, but my legs and my trousers got completely wet. When a big wave came I got soaked. When I went home on the coach I had to wear a towel around my waist. - Jessica

After the beach, we went crabbing. The school record so far that day was 62 crabs by one class. The creek was so dirty we couldn't see the bottom. The school provided crabbing lines, but some of us brought our own instead. The bait was either chicken, turkey, ham, bacon or (if all runs out) children! Each class were crabbing for about 45 minutes. As class four were crabbing first, nearly all the crabs were hiding where we couldn't reach them. However, class three did beat the record with 111! Cool! - Alice

On our school trip to Walberswick, we went under a bridge to catch crabs. We counted them and beat the other classes amount that they caught. When I had the crab catcher I caught about 15 crabs.The water was very muddy so therefore the crabs were dark-reds, browns, greens, yellows, oranges and them sort of colours. When we put all our crabs together, we came up with 111 crabs for class 3 and class 4 (who were before us) caught 64. After catching the crabs and putting them in the bucket we had to let them go. There were Jelly-fish in the water 1 big one and1 little one. Some of us picked the little one up in our nets but Mr. Knott said not to and Gina ended up killing one because she kept picking it out of the water with her net so it died and sinked to the bottom of the water. - Rio

When we went to Walberswick we did some crabbing. It was extreme fun, and there were millions of crabs there. Gennice managed to catch 58 crabs in 45 mins. Cale also caught around 40 crabs but he had two crabbing lines. There were some people who only caught one or two crabs like James and Reece. Some of the crabs were massive and some were tiny. Most of the crabs were dark green or brown, but some were red. At the end when we let them go we had at least 100 crabs. Everybody enjoyed crabbing, even though some people didn't catch many. - Reece

When we got to the sluice I dived for a line with bait on the end. The bait was turkey. I pulled it out and saw there was a big crab on it. I grabbed it and it bit me with its big claw. I was quite successful, because I caught 10 crabs. When I pulled it up for the last time, there was a huge crab on the end. It made me drop it, and I lost my bait. - Michael

We went crabbing and Gennice and I caught the most. I was crabbing, and netting for four people. Gennice caught a big one. Jason caught a big one too, but dropped it. I ran and scooped it out of the water using the net. - Cale

On the way to Walberswick we had traveled about 30 to 40 miles. Eventully we got there, first we walked down to the beach to have a bit of fun . Furthermore, we then walked down to the bridge to go crabbing, Gennice caught the biggest crab. Altogether, our class caught 111 crabs. When we went down the beach the second time, some of the children from our class started to bury Jason. Once the tide went out, Michael went running down to the water with his t shirt off and got soaked because of the crashing waves. - Zoe

At Walberswick we went paddling. We were allowed to go up to our knees. Some children did not listen to the teacher. Michael jumped in up to his neck - he had no other clothes to change into. Some of the waves were big, and the sea was rough. Daniel lost his sock in the sea. - Jason

When we went to Walberswick most of the class helped bury Jason. We dug a small hole, where he crouched, and started to fill it up. When we finally finished filling the hole up, we made a head rest and placed more sand around his neck so he couldn't move. Furthermore, we put large stones on Jason so he would be weighed down even more. When we had eventually finished, Jason stood up; however his feet had sunk so deep into the sand that he could rock backwards and forwards. At that point everybody had left Jason to dig himself out. In the end Jason got out, but had lost one of his trainers in the process, so Mr Knott had to come over and help him find it. -Alex