Our Trip to the Eden Project

The Eden Project
On Monday the 17th of September 2001,the years 3,4,5,6 from Bickleigh On Exe took a sunny day out to the Eden project. They didn?t just go to look at the plants, the years 3, and 4 were on a mission called the leach socks, and the years 5,and 6 were to take a trip around the world finding different plants, and then be questioned in one afternoon.
In the hugely exstrodanary greenhouses they were all climbing the steep slopes, looking up, and down at all fabulous plants, such as: Cooking banana trees, ginormouse pumpkins, tiny pineapples, yellow flowers with black dots in the middle, and chewing gum plants with pinky-purple leaves.
On the way back to be questioned, they had to stop to take a few photographs of the fabulous sites.
After the questioning they set off for the long ride back to school.

By Christopher Knab.

Our Visit to the Eden Project

We went to the Eden Project on the 17.09.2001, a Monday, with years 3, 4 and 5 of Bickleigh School. There were two coaches waiting for us when we got to school, both Forward Travel.

When we finally clambered on to the coach with our bags we didn?t know what a wonderful spectacle the place we were going to was going to be, until we got there. There were over 1000 hexagons made out of fibreglass specially constructed to make 6 domes. Which made up a shape that looks like a giant weight, with three domes at one end and three domes at the other. There was a warm temperature region and a hot temperate region.

Once we had found a parking space we walked down to Eden where we met a lady called Sam in the education zone. She told us about Eden and split us up into groups of ten. Then left us to eat our lunch, everyone squashed theirs down.

Soon everyone had eaten and we went to our separate workshops, where we had an hour to memorise six different plants and what their use was. Then we came back and played a game called navigator, my team won.

I learned a lot of new things about plants that I never knew before. One of the best things was finding out that the main ingredient of chewing gum grows on a lice. I had a wonderful time at Eden and learned lots of new
things.
By Sam smith

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