Things I think our teacher said on the school trip
Look! A river! Who can get closest to the edge?
Remember to bring some of the exhibits back with you.
Make sure to keep the tops on your water bottles nice and loose.
Now get with your partner and push each other down the hill.
Make sure you both get grass stains on your school clothes.
Three stars for walking along the wobbliest wall.
Put your half-eaten yoghourt in your backpack.
Save some crisps to put on the minibus floor.
Scream football chants all the way home.
Listen if you want to.
Remember to bring some of the exhibits back with you.
Make sure to keep the tops on your water bottles nice and loose.
Now get with your partner and push each other down the hill.
Make sure you both get grass stains on your school clothes.
Three stars for walking along the wobbliest wall.
Put your half-eaten yoghourt in your backpack.
Save some crisps to put on the minibus floor.
Scream football chants all the way home.
Listen if you want to.
This poem is copyright (©) Rob Walton 2025
About the Writer
Rob Walton
Rob Walton is a writer, performer and teacher from Scunthorpe who lives in Whitley Bay, where he writes poetry and fiction for children and adults. His poetry for children has been published by The Toy Press, Tyger Tyger, Parakeet and The Dirigible Balloon, and features in anthologies from Macmillan, Bloomsbury, The Emma Press and others. His collection of thirty very short stories, Please Don’t Read the Footnotes Please, is published by The Emma Press.
