Today was a much reduced group. Lecielrouge were off to what sounded like a v boring london trip [lol!! just absolutely green with jealousy - a preview of the dr who experience! looking forward to hearing all about it.], and at the last minute Jax and Merry couldn’t make it either. SO a quick readjustment and a slow lazy start! It had an inauspicious start, in tht DH had swept the conservatory and then loads of the mess was in an old laminated tablecloth . unfortunately i didn’t know this, and next morning when putting furniture back i disturbed it, and all the mess went all over the floor again 
not happy!!
We had a much lazier session that usual, as had less children to do each craft [and thus some spares as well], but also less crafts for them to do as the negative. We started with all the children taking turns to bounce on the trampoline, and SB organised the ones currently not bouncing into building the trojan horse. my orig idea would have been that we would have done it peep thro, a bit like joseph, but they built a fab 3d structure instead and painted it. at the end of the day, when dry, they took turns being hiding greeks in the horse, or howling trojans on the ramparts!
The next bit was music with G, she had brought a variety of instruments that might be similar to those in ancient greek, and we had pretend aulos with 2 recorders! was it a shawm with the hidden reed? anyway, we enjoyed being v noisy!! snack had a greek flavour with olives and humousthen some started with instrument making, others with greek pots, and yet others with the olive winner wreaths. there seemed to be a fair bit of remembrance/knowledge floating around, so something is going in 
and the greek pots looked really good.
lunch was the standard pasta, but hoping that next time we might bring and share greek style? some more trampolining, then more of above, and also some Agamemnon masks, cunningly made with tin foli rather than beaten gold an interesting greek war game – which the boys spotted a cunning winning strategy for fairly quickly, and some music theory paper prac for those planning the exam this time. SB surprised me by 90%! lets hope she reads the questions properly in the exam and does as well then. Wrapping up with trampolining, photos in the trojan horse, and a nice cup of tea . brownies and judo for sb, and bb and i are relaxing on the sofa
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Yay for reassuring theory mark!
Look forward to seeing the photos
(Btw, did you mean *fewer* children and *fewer* crafts?
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:¬P i might have done
It was a rauschpfeife. http://www.earlymusicshop.com/product.aspx/en-GB/1002905-moulder-rauschpfeife-sopranino. I don’t remember mine costing that much, though!
thankyou
Sounds like a fab day
Would like to make the pots here too so if you have any spare 
We had a terribly dull day walking round a tardis, confronting daleks and weeping angels….twice!!
Very jealous as usual. Sounds like a fab day
Especially the music 
E did a prac paper today and got 87% which is her highest so far 
and if she hadn’t repeatedly writted semiquaver rests rather than quaver rests she’d have been in the 90s.
sounds a great day as per usual
Love the pots.
So sorry to have missed out – had many tears from both of mine throughout the day at not being there
Looking forward to joining you at the next one :-).
Oh i am so grumpy we missed this
Just admiring your Trojan horse. The other day C and Jasper decided our large cardboard box would look good as a tank. So they painted it in camouflage-splodge green and stuck a cardboard tube on it to be the gun, then Jasper had to change into his dpm clothes to be the tank commander. I think they were having an autonomous moment at the time while Jonathan was doing something with the computer. So all you’d need would be a time machine, and that would have given you an alternative to break the siege of Troy.
i think i might be on the side of the trojans tho – it always strikes me that the trojans, apart from paris, are portrayed as quite brave and noble, for a hated enemy, really.