The Kingcombe Centre

During June the Year 2 children from Parrett and Axe, Sticklands and Beaminster Schools went to the Kingcombe Centre near Hooke. We took some lovely photographs of our day out and when we returned children from Parrett and Axe School wrote about what they did on the computer, using the digital photographs as inspiration.

We Went river dipping and we had to lift up rocks.  We had to wave the net around in the water to catch creatures.  Lots of children got water in their boots but I did not.  We caught a baby bullhead fish and then we had to put it back carefully. - Annabel.

We had to shake the rocks to get the fish on the run so we could catch them.  We put them in a tray and looked at them. We found little creatures and then we put them back.- Charlie

In this tray there are animals that live underwater. I used the net to catch the animals.  I held the net up and my partner moved the stones. At Kingcombe I had fund and I met other children from other schools. - Oliver

This is a damselfly.  We saw it near the river when we were river dipping.  It's wings are like green glass.  I liked the river dipping best because we got to catch creatures in the river.  Once we had a look at them we put them back in carefully.  - Sam 

This flower is called a wild orchid and this is a very rare flower so it is against the rules to pick them.  Orchids grow in the hay meadow and there are only a few left.  We saw lots of yellow flowers too called eggs and bacon. - Abigail

This is a cricket, its like a grasshopper.  You find these in meadows, fields and patches of long grass.  We had to sneak up and PLOP we caught a minibeast. - Rory