The children have recounted their marvellous day out on the 5th May, 2022. These are their thoughts:
Alice – Year 4G –
It was splendiferous weather as we got on the coach to start our journey to the Roald Dahl museum. I felt hopscotchy and excited as I sat next to Jack on the coach. We talked almost the whole way there. We arrived and walked to the museum. It looked a bit like an ordinary house squished between other houses but was painted a beautiful pale blue and had Gobblefunk painted on the front. Inside there were wonderful exhibits and information everywhere about Roald Dahl.
Sophie – Year 4B –
Our first job was to partner up and make a character. We went over to the dream jar (from the BFG) and changed our voice at random. It came out all deep and funny! Using different magazine faces we make a new chaotic face. We had a lot of fun dressing up into the different costumes. My partner Imogen, looked wonderful when dressed up, she looked like Toad from “Wind in the Willows.”
Gregor – Year 4B –
Our next stop was the Boy Gallery. Here we saw Roald Dahl’s old school bag and we could dress up in his old clothes. We had a chance to look at his life as a child. Afterwards we went to the Solo Gallery. We were able to dress up in pilot’s costumes and pretend to fly a plane. Roald Dahl was a pilot before he was a writer so we could understand more about his adult life. We visited his writing hut. It had a chair with a board on top of it so he could work. The guides explained that he used to work for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon. This sounds like a good job to me
Simran – Year 4G –
Finally, at long last, we had a fabulous lunch. I sat on a table with Evie, Isla and Blaise. We talked about all the fun we had and what we though was in the gift-shop. Before we left we had a play in the playground which was such good fun. We had had such a wonderful day that we were not ready to go back to school. On the trip back I imagined myself being someone like Roald Dahl and think that he is such an amazing author, he is truly the world’s number one bestselling author.
Alice – Year 4G –
I would recommend a visit to the museum for all Roald Dahl fans as there is lots to see and do and it’s a gloriumptious day out!
Glossary:
Wondercrump: wonderful or splendid
Splendiferous: Splendid or marvellous
Hopscotchy: to feel happy or cheerful
Gobblefunk: words invented by Roald Dahl
Gloriumptious – and experience that is glorious and exciting.
