Mission Impossible and the Silver Maze

These activities are really well designed to promote team building. The children were amazing - as each activity progressed they became better at listening to each other, sharing ideas and taking their time. The instructors are incredibly patient and experts at bringing the focus back to the problems. The mud is optional - usually. I will try and get pictures of each of the children but it can be tricky to be in the right spot at the right time.

Adventure Course

Dry Slope Skiing

Some of the people in these photographs showed amazing perseverance and resilience. Skiing is hard and getting back up when you fall down is even harder - these people earned their tea.

The latest batch of pictures. The children did really well. If you are wondering why the children all have their arms out in such odd positions it is because the instructors were asking them to help with their balance.

Nethybridge Day 2

We are going to try our very best to upload as many pictures as possible but the connection here is slow. We have had a super first day with adventure trials, a zip wire and skiing. The children have really challenged themselves and persevered to get the very most out of the activities. They are making us proud.  More photos to come....

Term 3

Here is a snapshot of what was a very busy Term 3.  We will endeavour to update the blog more regularly this term so that we can share our learning and the things we are enjoying doing.

Health and Wellbeing

As part of our Health and Wellbeing activities we decided we would try and see the world from a different point of view. We had to try create a model out of play dough, but we all had to do give up doing something - someone couldn't talk, another could only use one hand, someone had to close their eyes and someone else had to stay on their chair and they couldn't move out of the chair. It was a lot more challenging for everyone than they expected. The person who was had their eyes closed had to cooperate by telling people what they had to do because they couldn't do much and the person who couldn't move from their chair was very helpful because they can use their arms and talk because they just had to stay on their chair, the person that couldn't talk had to either write stuff down or try give signals with their hands and the person that could only use one hand was helpful but it would've been hard. We tried this activities to learn and understand more about disabilities.

Creative session with Britt

On Thursday p7 had a visit from Britt Harcus. We were learning about what people in the past wrote like. We got to have a shot to write using feather quills, charcoal and bamboo. 

We also got to look at some of her grandad's belongings from World War 2,  like ID cards and some photos. Britt had brought in an old fashioned typewriter that she got from her mum.  When you used it you had to press the buttons really hard.