Day 3 N-Residentail

Welcome to day 3 of our blog.


The suns shining (at last), we are going outside to play cricket,  football and anything else the group choose to play.  Everyone is happy and full of beans and looking forward to the fun packed day ahead clay modelling, scavenger hunt and collage making. 


Guest bloggers Emily Woods and William Limburn.


Today we have been doing a wide range of fun activities including: Scavenger hunts, football, cricket,  playing on the parachute, cheerleading, eating ice pops and making lots of items out of recycled boxes and bottles.


At the start of the day everyone charged outside to play some games such as football, cricket, bowls and parachute. Some of us played bowls and then later on played cricket, whilst some of us played an intense game of football (William and Joshua were team captains! Well, while most of us were burning our energy, Jack Halford was lying on the ground almost asleep lol.  After the intense game of football had finished, the cheering of the football results (and me giving him a little nudge) made Jack arise from his almost slumber and join in the exciting games most of us played on the parachute.
As well as all this we also made clay models and cups, we could make what ever we wanted  some people also said my cup looked like a well.


After a well deserved lunch break, every one was full of energy for the most amazing scavenger hunt. We all got into pairs  and collected our bags (William and Brooke Conneely were the first to collect their bags. After we had all collected our bags, we opened them to see what we had to find, for example: Something prickly, 10 of something, a 4 leaf clover - which me and Joshua  Limburn found easily. After about 50 minutes in the sun, we came in and everyone enjoyed an ice pop, then we realised that Josh was missing, so we had another scavenger hunt on our hands. But don't worry we found him eventually!


Tomorrow we are going to Made By Me for some fun painting. And tomorrow is Emily's birthday!

I am Spartacus!

Still alive Mr Seymour!

Hiding Matthew?

Proud of his masterpiece Josh!

Looking good Christianna

Thumbs up!

Ta Dah!

Master craft!

You are not suppose to eat it Julia!

Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters ... or Bailey and Kai

Zapp ...Pow

Cheese!

Anyone know how to get out of here?

Residential day 3 Wednesday

Hi it's Harley again

Early wake up call for Mr Seymour today - someone needed him at 4.30 am and had to knock very hard on his door to wake him up. Everyone else waited until the 6.45 am call. Breakfast at 7.15 am today I had weetabix, soggy toast, mango and apricot yoghurt - others had sausages, hash browns and beans.

We had a break in between breakfast and first activity, time for showers, room inspection and playing outside.

No rain today, which is impressive.

Bush craft was amazing, we built fires, using flint and steel to light them and then had to keep feeding them to keep it going for 10 minutes. On to den building using logs, sticks and hay; big enough for all of us to get in (14) We named our den Hayden (get it!), sadly we had to knock him down but we did give him a minute's silence. Our teachers didn't think we could keep quiet for a minute but we managed it.

This took us all morning and other groups did aeroball, abseilling, obstacle course and laser storm.

Lunch was pizza and fruit. More activities in the afternoon. Nightline was really fun - we were blindfolded and had to go round an obstacle course keeping one hand on the shoulder of the person in front. Fencing was cool. We learned to be 'on guard', lunge and thrust using a foil. Don't worry we wore masks and bibs. Aeroball was very bouncy, (basketball on trampolines).

We took the Kingswood squirrel mascot around with us this afternoon - spot the best way to carry a squirrel in the photos.

Tea was a fab roast dinner and choc ices.

This evening was bottle rocket - one group named their rocket Sally, raised it as their own and when it hit the cloud it died so needed a funeral.

While writing the blog we can hear the others at the campfire.

Freddie has joined us as a blogger. He was emotional about Sally's demise but enjoyed the session. Fencing was great - he really enjoyed thrusting his foil in to his cousin (Alex) - he did survive. He loved the aero ball; it was fun bouncing up and down and trying to get the ball in the hoop. Team Tech was difficult - they had to build a low building with all the bricks. Tomorrow he is looking forward to buggy building and the nightline and apparently bush craft and the obstacle course are good fun. Disco tomorrow!!!

Looking forward to getting to bed tonight.