A surprise trip, a celebration of the end of SATS. Destination had
been unknown, but children had been told not to bring swimming costumes
(a lot of them thought that they would be going to Waterworld).
On the way the coach driver kept changing directions to fool them. No one guessed where they were going until they spotted the Trentham sign.
Zac was so impressed that he wrote a report in his diary (the first time he has used it since he had it as a Christmas present!)
Dear Diary,
Today guess where we went? Monkey Forest. My class and I went there and we had a fantastic time.
The guide said that there are 40 monkeys altogether and she said that they are wild. When she said that, Zarah was really scared and wanted to go back to school.
I was the first person to spot a monkey. It was like I was the most popular boy in the class. Anyway the monkeys behaved very well and the class did too!
It was a shame I forgot to bring my camera, the Barbary Macaques were posing really nicely. I could finally see a monkey with my own eyes.
We saw baby monkeys that are only one week old because they were born a couple of days ago. Zarah wanted to cuddle them because they looked so cute, but we had to follow the rules. She wasn’t scared of them now.
The baby monkeys were really funny, they kept play fighting and grooming each other.
It was great watching the monkeys swinging from tree to tree and one of the monkeys fell off three times, but he kept getting up and doing it again.
Arda pretended that one of the monkeys was our Teaching Assistant. He shouted out her name and beckoned the monkey to come over. The teaching assistant didn’t mind at all and really laughed.
The male monkeys had massive big teeth, it looked as if they were vampires but they weren’t, they were only monkeys.
Nathan shouted that he could see a group of monkeys curled up in a tree asleep. The trouble was, he shouted so loudly that some of them woke up. He said that they were looking very grumpy. This wasn’t surprising after the way he had shouted.
Then we spotted one jumping from branch to branch – I was scared. We saw a big one that was 16 years old.
They eat oranges, apples, bananas, cabbage and grass.
Sydney said that it was the best day of his life. He was really excited.
When we were on the coach going back to school, Artur said that it must be brilliant to be a monkey – no learning, no need to go to school, just jumping from tree to tree and eating nuts.
Our teacher was very pleased with us – said that it was a pleasure to take us out.
Ali missed it all because he felt sick in the morning and his mum
didn’t want to risk him being sick on the coach. He missed the
best school trip ever!
