Day Four at Fairthorne!
A brilliant day so far… Team challenge obstacles, Paddle boarding and archery
Fairthorne 2024 Day One and Two update
Monday
‘No Warm-up phase for these guys’
The year 6 children have fired straight into their activities on day one and seem in high spirits!Wide Games after dinner tonight should settle some energy levels too! Resilience and Cooperation – learning values of the school – have been in abundance already!
More to come tomorrow.
The Year 6 Team
Tuesday
‘The Big Debate – Which has been best so far?’
Children have been fiercely debating over dinner their points to which activity and which meal has been best so far! Kayaking,abseiling and Pioneering have appeared popular as have the Nandos-style peri-peri chicken last night and the bacon rolls yesterday morning!The children have become familiar with where the ‘dry room’ is in Ben’s House already and have been reminded that the best place for a towel to dry would be hung up over their bed railing and not at the bottom of their suitcase!!!
ALL children are eating very well and helping clear their table after each meal which has been great to see
Day 1, in Ben’s House!!!
We are here and arrived safely!
The children have enjoyed their first two activities, a lunch and an evening meal finished with a rigorous night hike through the woods of Fairthorne. Some songs were even sung at our half-way point, which included the classic ‘Bungalow’ song!!! Children improvised and got stuck into it, in readiness for Camp Fire night on Thursday.
Hot chocolate and some classic, much appreciated biscuits were consumed by all about an hour ago and now we are hoping for a seamless transition into skin-care regimes, tooth-brushing and sleep!!! Fingers crossed for the last one!
Photos to follow tomorrow night.
The Year 6 Team
From clapping rhythms to reading music!
On Tuesday this week the children were once again fortunate to be taught music by Mrs Richardson, Head of Performing Arts at Oaklands. This week, she quickly built upon the skill of reading and clapping a rhythm to using colour coded notation on a stave. The Year 6 children picked this up quickly, so she then introduced them to nursery rhymes on a stave using their knowledge of the position of notes E, G, A and C. I think we were all amazed at how much we had learnt in half-an-hour!
We look forward to welcoming Mrs Richardson back in a couple of weeks.
Have a great St Peter’s Fest and weekend.
The Year 6 Team
A visit from Father Jeremy.
Year 6 pupils were delighted to welcome Father Jeremy into their RE lesson this week. We were extremely grateful to Father, who must have come to us already somewhat exhausted from leading a liturgy and then speaking with Year 2 for an hour! If he was tired, he didn’t show it and used all the time available to develop our pupils’ understanding of the Gifts received from the Sacrament of Confirmation. This is a tricky topic to explain, but Father Jeremy had the children hooked with real-life examples of what each Gift means, and how they bring us closer in our relationship and understanding of God and what He wants for us. It was also interesting to hear Father’s stories of how Confirmation has given people the courage to lead and contribute to the work of the church in a much greater way.