{"id":391,"date":"2018-10-17T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/?p=391"},"modified":"2018-10-17T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:52:12","slug":"battling-the-elements-in-botley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/2018\/10\/17\/battling-the-elements-in-botley\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling the elements &#8230; in Botley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may have been rainy on Thursday, but it certainly didn\u2019t dampen spirits as the Year 6 children took part in activities that required teamwork, perseverance and commitment.  One of the activities was den building where children worked together to build a structure that would be waterproof, provide warmth and be large enough to fit the group of 5 children inside. What the pupils produced was very impressive.  Children went on to develop their survival skills further by learning how to build and light fire; no easy task in the rain! <\/p>\n<p>Teamwork continued with an assault course requiring balance, strength and stamina whilst listening and talking to others to complete the course as a team. The final activity, \u2018camo-tracking\u2019, encouraged the children to get nice and muddy in order to hide in the forest, playing a number of games that required the children to move stealthily through the forest area without being seen. The children embraced all the challenges with admirable persistence. <\/p>\n<p>They are now getting dressed up ready for this evening\u2019s entertainment&#8230;the disco!<\/p>\n<p>Mrs L Knight<br \/>\nAssistant Headteacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may have been rainy on Thursday, but it certainly didn\u2019t dampen spirits as the Year 6 children took part in activities that required teamwork, perseverance and commitment. One of the activities was den building where children worked together to build a structure that would be waterproof, provide warmth and be large enough to fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}