VERY, VERY early in the morning handsome Mr Robson came banging on everyone’s door to wake us up for the wonderful day ahead! Once we came downstairs we started with our morning prayers.

After that, we had our scrumptious breakfast, but we called it food mania! Once we finished our breakfast, we went upstairs and were filled with enthusiasm (Miss Corr’s favourite word) for the day ahead. We then set off to the tram station to make our way to the canal cruise.

When we got to the canal cruise, we chose our seats and we found out some really interesting facts about Amsterdam, its history and artistic heritage.

After about an hour of cruising, we got off the boat and spent some time souvenir shopping, splashing our cash (on gifts for our parents of course).

After this we decided to have our lunch at Dam Square. Jessica felt sorry for the pigeons that were around us, so she wanted to feed them a bit of her lunch.

This was a big mistake because when she fed one, an entire tsunami of pigeons attacked us! After the drama with the pigeons we decided to go for another shopping spree at the plaza across the road.

The last activity of the day was visiting the Anne Frank house. When we arrived we spent some time in an educational workshop. The lady working with us was very impressed with our knowledge.

After that we went to the actual Anne Frank House/museum. It felt so surreal actually being there not just looking at it on photos. We all felt a mixture of feelings such as being moved, because everything we felt and touched had also been touched by the Anne Frank family, and fortunate for being able to see and experience this moment.

Half way through the tour, a lady started to moan about us skipping the cue WHEN WE DIDN’T! so fiery Miss Berrett stuck up for justice and proved to the lady that she was wrong.

Over all we had a fantastic day! We got to discover more facts about Amsterdam and a little bit more about Anne Frank. We can’t wait for tomorrow and for Mr Robson to wake us up bright and early!

By Jake, Akshainee and Sania (keep reading)

P.S.

I just wanted to let all of the parents know how amazing all of your children have been this week so far. So many members of the public have commented on their impeccable manners and excellent behaviour.

We spoke with a member of staff at the Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday who was hugely impressed with how respectful our children were during their visit. She is visiting Scotland soon, and now plans to come and visit us in school.

We had our educational workshop at the Anne Frank House and we were all totally blown away by the depth of knowledge the children displayed during this session. The leader, who is a high school teacher, said she genuinely has not worked with a group of children of any age who had such a good understanding of the Holocaust and the events that surrounded this.

We have had a great couple of days with the children, and they have been an absolute credit to all of you and to the school.

Mr Robson