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School Trips and Activities
The first thing you’ll want to know is that all of your children at happy and having fun! There has hardly been time for any worry as we have been busy with room preparation and activities. The next thing we would like to say is that not many children can put a cover on a duvet!
The start of our trip has been joyous. We've had excellent effort, teamwork and behaviour from children and perfect weather. We arrived on schedule and first toured the site. Children were excited to look around the activities and were already saying that they could see it would be an amazing trip. We went to a classroom and the children discussed all of the things they expected from the trip, including the learning attitudes they could show and the experience they would gain. They were very impressive and were able to talk a lot about resilience, creativity, teamwork and independence.
After the talk children found out who they would be in a room with and went to start to unpack. Despite their excitement, they were all helping each other out as much as possible. When we went around some of the bedrooms did look a bit like an explosion in a laundry factory, but the children tried hard and with a little help they were all set up. After this we ate lunch (thank you all for packing these).
After lunch we began our activity programmes. Children were split into four groups with Mr Berry, Mrs Balint, Mrs Cushing and Mrs Patel as group leaders. Please look through the photographs to see which activities your child went to on Day 1. They may be in a group with an adult who is not their teacher, so check through until you find out which group they are in. They will be in this group for the duration of the trip, so you will know where to look in future.
Dinner followed the activities and currently children are working on their diary entries before our last activity, a whole-group night walk. Finally for today, we will meet for storytime and some photos with our teddies. Check back tomorrow to see pictures from these, as well as the next activity photos.
Please rest assured that your children are having a great time and are feeling well settled already in the centre! They have also represented you and our school brilliantly, in particular in the way that they have celebrated and supported each other.
Have a nice evening and check back again around this time tomorrow!
- The Pentagon, a high-flying set of tightrope challenges, with children harnessed and in helmets
- Fire lighting, in which children built their own fires using sparking ferro-rods (you can google it...)
- The Forest Adventure, a three hour trek through mud, water, muddy water and watery mud, with stops and challenges along the way
- Obstacles, including physical challenges and exploring dark and wet underground tunnel complexes
- Shelter build, in which children learned knots and worked in teams to build wild shelters which were then tested and rated
