Staunton

I've been keeping a close eye on the weather forecast lately as I suspect a lot of others have been too! Any sort of break in the weather needs to be utilised well as it doesn't seem to last long.

Having a pretty good idea that it was going to be a nice afternoon I decided on getting the work done in the morning and heading off to Staunton http://www3.hants.gov.uk/staunton for the afternoon to make use of what is left on our Culture all pass http://www3.hants.gov.uk/culture-all/passport.htm
I really haven't got as much use out of it as I would have liked this year and still unsure whether to renew it or not at the end of the month. I think we have managed 3 trips to Staunton, a trip to Manor Farm, Basing House and Hillier Gardens . Counting it up it has saved us £20 so it was just about worth it but not sure we would have gone if it wasn't for the pass. If I make the effort we might get in one more trip before it runs out.

We started the day with some maths first, then packed out picnic and headed out the door.

We had a lovely afternoon looking at the butterflies and farm animals.

We had the play area to ourselves where the kids played hide and seek.




We explored further down the the site to where we haven't been before and discovered a little educational hut where we spent some time doing worksheets on birds and looking at the displays of skulls etc

Made it through the maze and found a robin on the way.

In the evening C started his programming course http://www.youthdigital.com/mod-design-1.html which will teach Java and he'll end up with a mod for his Minecraft account by the end of it. Bought as part of a homeschool co-op which is great as otherwise it would have been around £200 each! We paid around £80 each which is still pricey but I hope worth it.