A glorious final day here in France. Amazingly the weather has followed the same pattern as the previous two years. No rain, overcast at the beginning of the week and then glorious sunshine.

Last night's dinner was a starter of salami and then a main of chicken (some form of) and tagliatelle pasta finished off with chocolate mousse. For those who are a bit concerned where the bread had gone, it was there-in plentiful supply.
A good night's sleep was had and a slightly later wake up of 7.45 followed, before we experienced breakfast once more and behold! there were some croissants added to the table and very nice they were. Don't worry, everyone's favourite 'the bread' still topped the charts.

Morning activities of indoor iniatiatives (done outdoors?!) and circus skills followed. Mr Powell proved they he had spent far too much of his youth playing with a diabilo. Needless to say he didn't impart any of the knowledge to the children but just spent a nice trip down memory lane for an hour with his diabilo.

We then strolled off to Criel Sur Mer beach and what a wonderful sight it was (see twitter). Glorious sunshine, a reasonable pack lunch and 60 Y6's thrown in for good measure. Having been thoroughly stressed out by the ice cream shop last year I attacked it early and with more gusto this year. I put my action plan into practice and reaped the rewards.... (always learning). Mr Campbell finally had his moment of a coffee away from the children (amazingly it has been 4 days) although we were only on the other side of the glass! He was a bit impatient waiting for his ice cream, but I insisted the children went first! A few beach games then ensued before we made the pleasant walk back.

The excellent cider farm, just beside the centre, was then visited whilst the last of the activities were finished off-archery, fencing.One girl " I've always been more of a gymnast than an archer!!" Mrs Turner got stuck in on the fencing and Mr Powell had a david/goliath moment, when he was defeated by one of the smallest girls in Y6!

The children then had a good hour of free time on the field in glorious sunshine. Disco or watching England this evening before the journey home. I'm not going to lie, the pain of watching England is going to be an interesting experience with the 20 of them that want to watch it. I'm not sure if it is going to make it worse or better or who I will celebrate with when/if we score.

Must dash to dinner,  where the birthday girl is going to have a surprise cake. I showed her dad's comment from twitter and she was delighted. It's also the frogs legs and snails starter so is not worth missing.

We have had a very enjoyable week and some great quotes from the children to keep us amused.

Yesterday (Day 3) when I was talking about the 'centre' i.e. the place where we had stayed for the past 3 days, one boy put his hand up to ask where it was. This going abroad thing can be very disorienting.

Twitter updates tomorrow on the way back. We go to a market very close to the chateau in EU and then start our journey back. Hoping that the world's biggest car park will not be playing it's usual Friday afternoon tricks.

Please wait for the children inside the school gates and we will give out passports and any cheese that has been bought there. They will wheel the suitcases back in from the coach on the road-the coach can't get in the drive as it is too big.

Au revoir.