Nicky Nook Hike

The children had an exciting adventure hiking up Nicky Nook, spotting trees, streams, mud, fences and amazing views along the way. As we walked, the class began making up their own alliteration phrases, inspired by everything they could see, hear and squelch through!

The walk certainly wasn’t short of drama. Archie and Ranell managed to get themselves properly stuck in the mud—not just their feet, but their shoes and boots actually disappeared into it! There was a lot of laughing, a bit of slipping, and eventually some very muddy rescuing. Kai showed incredible bravery too. Even though he’s not a fan of heights, he pushed himself to keep going and ended up walking most of the way up the hill with a big grin on his face. Meanwhile, Frankie and Ollie seemed to think the hill was a racetrack. They zoomed ahead, dragging poor Mr Meadows into a full workout as they powered up the steepest parts of the route!

During our rest stop, the children played around with more alliteration, testing out tongue-twisting phrases and trying to outdo one another with the silliest (and most impressive) ideas. The next day in class, we looked back at the photos from our adventure and used them to help us create a whole-class alliteration poem. It set the perfect tone for diving into our next topic on poetry.

Here’s the class poem we created together:

Brilliant Bleasdale bowed to the beauty,
Watching great, green, growing grass,
Amazed by the humongous, healthy hills.