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Breakfast on the final day
Posted on March 20, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
Final big breakfast before our last adventure.
More from a year 4 perspective
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdavieswoolsery | Leave a response
Day two photos taken by the children.
Dinner and Movie Night 🍿
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
Following a lovely roast dinner and ice cream for pudding we had more technical issues. Finally we managed to have Movie 🎥 Night .
Team building skills group 2
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This afternoon after archery 🏹 group 2 were challenged to team building skills. Challenges included lowering a stick while keeping it level, going through a tyre in the quickest time and passing an object over the biggest gap using teamwork. Both teams set a new record of 2.95 seconds for 4 people going through […]
Caving. How dark??
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
We had an amazing time caving, learning about stalactites and stalagmites and watching them form before our very eyes. Many of the year fours demonstrated their knowledge from this terms science lessons, identifying all three types of rocks. Everyone showed great determination, resilience, teamwork, and showed fantastic character facing their fears. We are so immensely […]
Archery 🏹 group 2
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
After lunch it was group 2s opportunity to demonstrate their archery skills. Well done to the team with Ada, Elsie, Ashley, Jenson and Raife who were the winning team. Congratulations toEnna who was the highest individual scorer. Special mention to Louie who got a bullseye 🎯 and popped a balloon 🎈, Hugo also popped a […]
Team building before lunch
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 5 responses
Before we were allowed lunch we took part in some team building activities to develop our communication, planning and practise skills. Well done to the girls who set a record of 3.9 seconds of getting five people through a tyre.
Archery 🏹
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | Leave a response
This morning we split into two groups to do the days activities of archery and caving. There was some great shooting with The Shruggers winning the team event. Tyler was the highest individual scorer and special mention to Emmie who was the only one who popped the balloon 🎈. Nobody was able to hit the […]
Start of Day Two
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
After a great night’s sleep ( all children asleep by 10pm). A relaxing start to the day with some games and then an enormous breakfast before making our lunch.
Day One photos from a Year 4 perspective
Posted on March 19, 2024 | By cdavieswoolsery | 5 responses
Throughout the day, the children have passed around an old phone that they have used to take photos of what they have seen from their perspective.
Bed 🛏️ time
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 2 responses
Ready for bed at the end of our tiring but exciting first day.
Dinner and night time orienteering
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 3 responses
After a lovely pasta dinner followed by sticky toffee pudding, we ventured out once again. This time it was in the dark and we were orienteering around Pixies Holt. We had to locate 17 different dibbers around the site as well as a square stone, brown thing, yellow thing and a stick as long as […]
Moorland walk to Yar Tor and Sharp Tor
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 5 responses
This afternoon we enjoyed an amazing walk being dropped at Sharp Tor and then walking to Yar Tor before walking back to Pixies Holt. En route we saw a rainbow, Devil’s matchsticks, a skull and bone as well as a grave and a four thousand year old house from the Bronze Age. We also […]
Fuelling up before Moorland Walk
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 2 responses
Enjoying lunch after making our beds.
We’ve arrived 😀
Posted on March 18, 2024 | By cdaviesvsp | 1 response
After a quick stop to have a first view across Dartmoor we have arrived safely at Pixies Holt.
Surfing
Posted on June 16, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp
It was back to the sea for our penultimate activity: the waves were pretty fierce but everyone threw themselves (sometimes literally) enthusiastically into surfing.
Final Meal!
Posted on June 16, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp
Goodbye, Bude, you’ve been amazing!
Bouldering
Posted on June 15, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp
It was lovely and shady on the rocks this afternoon. Great climbing from everyone!
Climbing
Posted on June 15, 2023 | By dmarksvsp | 2 responses
This afternoon we have had the opportunity to have a go at climbing up the side of the Adventure Bude building.
High Ropes
Posted on June 15, 2023 | By jrichardsonvsp | 3 responses
What an amazing morning on the high ropes! Everyone showed determination and resilience on All Aboard, Jacob’s Ladder, Leap of Faith, the continuous trail and The Rack.