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Monday 8^th February

The coach arrived at Loders at about 10:40am after standing outside in the rain for 10 minutes. Finally once our luggage was loaded onto the coach we all piled in and we were off. The coach trip was long and tiring, I had a book to read and a packet of jaffa cakes to munch on! It was quite stuffy in the coach and all the windows were steamed up. A lot of people were making a lot of noise so it was hard to concentrate on my book and I had eaten all my jaffa cakes so I did what everybody else was doing, chatting. The year fives were all very excited and were asking a lot of questions about Leeson house. We went up a hill and before us was the gates to Leeson house. We drove through the gates and up Leeson's long driveway and pulled up in front of the house. We unloaded our bags and took them to the games room (a large hall) and then made our way to the classroom block to make base camp.

By Timothy Butler.

On Monday morning Yr5+6 went to the stone museum in Langton Matravers. It was a fascinating building , the roof and walls were made out of stone. In the yard outside there was a strange looking object. It had two stone uprights with a oak log attached to a big barrel with a chain around it.

When we went inside Mr Saville showed us some Purbeck stone. It had thousands of shells in it which Mr Saville said were water snail shells which had died and floated to the bottom of the river. He also told us that there were 24 different layers of Purbeck stone, the 8^th being called Grub. In this layer, the rocks were so compacted that they could form a ceiling for the miners to dig under. This meant they could dig under farmer's fields without them knowing about it! Mr Saville showed us a cart which they brought the stones up with, a chisel, a mallet and a hammer, also some pictures of the mines.

Before we left he told us what the strange looking object was. It was used by a donkey to pull the cart with the stones up out of the mines. By walking in the opposite direction the donkey lowered the cart back into the mine.

Mr Saville told us so many things that I can't fit it all on this page!

By Myfanwy Lloyd

MAKING BEDS

When we arrived at Leeson House which is a Field Studies Centre in Purbeck (Dorset) we unpacked our bags. Our first job was to make our beds, we found it very difficult but we made them in the end!

FIRE DRILL

We were then told to stand by our beds and wait for the Fire Bell to ring. We were told to stay calm, keep quiet and leave the building in a neat and orderly manner.

We went onto the patio outside and we had a register to check that everybody was there. When everybody was accounted for we were able to go back into the house.

BY KATE CARTER

We went on a night walk up through the town and past the fields but we stopped one or two times and on the second time we stopped Barry told us a story about all the constellations. It was too cloudy to see all of them. And I'll tell you what, it was so sticky that we nearly got stuck. Then we got to a certain field and we all crossed one by one in the dark. I just about made it and we went back to Leeson and just about everyone's feet were cold.

BY NATALIE STOODLEY

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