A train carriage crammed with kids
as giddy as geese, giggling
telling tall tales and
Swapping magic tricks.
To London on a school trip
they speed through winter fields,
suburbs blanched by frost
lost on their excitement.
Lunches packed and boxed
stowed safe in bags and packs.
Teachers cluck and fuss
as happy as their charges,
for a day away from school,
from the grind of teaching plans
and the staff room's gaping silence.
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