On Wednesday 27th November 2019, Mehvish, Phoebe, Sophia, Wiktoria, Alamin, Finley and Oliwier set off on the school minibus and travelled up to Alnwick Garden. We had packed the bus with buggies, snacks, changes of clothes, wellies, camera and packed lunches. Waiting to meet us when we arrived was Toni the Elf. She took us to the ‘Winter Bumpers’ Area – which was as much fun as it sounds!! We whizzed round and round, backwards and forwards – and bumped into each other lots of times while we were strapped safely with our classroom adult into a type of bumper car which had a big inflatable tyre around it – there were lots of shrieks of laughter!!

Then we followed our Elf along a path which led to…can you believe it – Santa’s Grotto!!! He was there, in a shiny red suit, big black boots and a great big white beard. We think he must be very clever because he had Christmas gifts for all of us. We each had our photo taken with him before we waved him goodbye.

By then we were ready for our lunch so we headed to the warm Pavilion Café. After we had eaten, Toni the Elf guided us to the ‘Winter Playground’ where we played in a sheltered area – in real snow!! All too soon though, it was time for us to get changed into warm, dry clothes and then have a look around the shop at all the bright, shiny, twinkling decorations before we had to get back into the minibus to travel back to school.

What a fabulous day!!