Do class teachers still ask you to write on the topic, ‘What I did on my holiday’? They did when I was at school and I. like everyone else, hated it. To be honest, I used to set the task for my pupils when I taught in the classroom – and they hated it!
I had a lovely, peaceful holiday in the Dordogne, France. The weather was beautiful, there were millions of butterflies and we did lots of walking, reading and not much else. Possibly quite a boring holiday for some people, but it was just what we needed.
Something interesting did happen though.
One night we went to the very pretty town of Sarlat. It has more listed buildings per square metre than anywhere else apparently. We had a very good meal and then went for a little walk and came across a fire!. It was on the ground floor of the building of the photo and extended right to the roof. The ground floor consisted of shops, but the rest was derelict. We spent quite some time watching the excellent fire crew working. They were very good and I particularly liked their helmets, all silver, reminded me of something from Star Wars or Dr Who.
It was very interesting and no one was hurt which was excellent news.
Now I’m back I’m off to do a bit of flute practice.
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Hi Liz,
I’m going away next week too and I’m going to France with school!!!!! I hope there aren’t any fires where we’re going though! We’re staying in Brittany.
Unfortunately I can’t take my flute but I think I need a rest anyway, what with exams and such. I hope you had a nice holiday!
Love lucy x x x
We used to right about holidays when I was at primary school. Now were all a bit older and supposidly maturer we get slightly more interesting and detailed topics like Shakespear. I hated writing about holidays as it is depressing when your small and stuck in a stuffy classroom to think about the nice time you had (and it’s not exactly enthrauling either). Even worse than writing about holidays – what you did at the weekend, purley becaus eit gets very tediouse if you do it every week. An writing about school trips is somewhere down there as it takes the fun out of going. As I said that before though I’m free of that now as I’m free of primary school.
Pleased you had a good holiday Liz!
Rachel :0)
We used to write ‘What We’d Done At The Weekend’ every Monday
I can remember being bored every monday and writing complete rubbish what I had not done.
I now have to write big long essays in English for my teacher with bright Yellow frizzy hair – not joking! – It’s scary!
We used to always have to bring something in from on our holidays aswell and talk about what we did.
Thomas