Dove Cottage

On Wednesday the 19 September the Year 6 pupils went to Dove Cottage, Grasmere. Home of the famous poet William Wordsworth. The journey was an hour drive but it was worth it in the end! When we finally got there we got put in to groups. We all went off and did separate activities, one group went off into William’s house, another group went into the museum and the last group read a poem about a little girl named Lucy Grey.

The group that went into the house had a look around and wrote poems about some of the things in Williams’s house. Then they went into the garden. The guide said that when William lived at Dove Cottage there were no walls around the garden, but now there is a stone wall around the whole cottage.

Meanwhile group two went to the museum which was next door to his house and they got a question sheet on William Wordsworth’s life. You had to look all around the museum trying to find out the answers to the questions!

The last group went into the education room to match up some verses from the poem Lucy Grey. Then they read the full poem, some people even said it out aloud. The guide said the black verses and the pupils said the red verses.

Writing poems in Dove Cottage

 

 By Holly and Jayme (Yr6)