Hello everyone!

We hope you’ve had a fun week, we certainly have!

Here are just some snapshots of our fantastic few days away! On the Wednesday, we created sticky mosaics collecting colours and textures in nature, create clay tree spirits, played on the paddock, created a clay oven, made a wall out of chalk and made  an earth bag structure! And that was all before dinner which was scrumptious pizza and salad, with carrot cake for afters! To help our dinner go down, we set off on our night walk along the South downs. We were lucky enough to catch the sunset and it was beautiful!

Day two started with ball games on the padlock after a large breakfast! We then played the bee game, in which we could only communicate to our fellow bee team mates by buzzing and shaking our bottoms! We then hopped onto a tractor and explored the farms on the downs! We saw goats, sheep, pheasants, birds of prey and some of us caught the glimpse of a deer!  Next activity was orienteering! We loved this and could really show off our map skills! We also had a WW2 presentation on exploring artefacts!

After our broccoli and cheese potato bake for dinner, we headed to the woodland house for campfire stories and songs. Walking home in the dark woods was rather exciting, but we were glad when we got back to the lodge for a hot chocolate and biscuits.

On the last day, we woke up well rested and had another large breakfast. This gave us enough energy to go on a tinder walk and how to create a fire using different materials. We then worked in teams to create a den! It was a competition but we all won with our amazing den building skills!

We had a wonderful time and Mrs Jackson-Nash, Mrs Moore and Mrs Emmerson said we were fantastic and went to bed very well!

We can’t wait for the Year 6 residential!