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Year 4 trip to Chepstow Castle

‘I think I’m going to come back to Chepstow again, it’s really good!  We went up the spiral staircase and went on the archers’ posts.  The slits in the walls were quite narrow and the King’s room was the best.  It had a loo going over the river Wye.’
Rory Yeatman
 
 

     
 
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‘Chepstow Castle is really interesting; it’s nice to see how the Normans built castles.’
Kieran Hill
 
‘That was one of the best trips I’ve ever had!’
Tom Wadey

     
 
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‘It’s amazing how Chepstow Castle has lasted, especially the great tower which is about 1,000 years old.’
Abdullah Faheem
 
‘That was the most adventurous history trip ever!’
Sophia Ali
 
‘The figurines at the top of the castle were impressive because they looked real.’
Eleanor Cox
 

 

     
 
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‘It was great fun, but mainly educational.  It was a wonderful trip!’
Elijah Halstead
 
‘We played bows and arrows on the ground.  People hid and from the balcony we pretended to fire arrows down.’
Joshua Plenty
 

     
 
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‘I thought it linked well with our history lessons.  It was great to have a real visual of the imaginative pictures we had in our heads.’
Tarun Darvay