Reception trip to Lyme Regis

The Reception class thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Lyme Regis. The weather was perfect for us to experience at first hand all the things we have talked about on the topic of ‘The Seaside’. We walked along the promenade, past the ice cream coloured beach huts and the RNLI lifeboat station, to the Aquarium, where we hand fed the grey mullet and held starfish.

We had found a nice spot on the beach and settled down to a bit of digging in the sand and sandcastle building when the lifeboat siren sounded and the lifeboat was launched. It was all very exciting! We weren’t sure whether it was just a practice, or a real rescue. Then whilst we were enjoying our picnic lunch someone spotted a dolphin or a porpoise in the bay!

Just like our story of the lighthouse keeper, the scavenging seagulls were very interested in our sandwiches! We all had an ice-cream and before we got back on the minibus for the journey back to school, we stopped at the lifeboat station to discover that there had been a real rescue; an exhausted windsurfer had been rescued 600 metres from the shore at Seaton.

What an eventful day on the beach!