Year 6 Residential 2023

Monday

After emotional goodbyes, we all have smiling and happy faces at PGL today! We met our group leader for the week and found out where we are staying. Everyone has been incredibly mature when organising their rooms, snack collections and when making decisions as a group!

We had a tour of the site and a lovely meal together - lots of very full tummies!

We ended the day with a game of AMBUSH!! It’s very similar to hide and seek but it is played as a group. We had to be super quiet and seek very carefully!

We will put pictures up here every evening where possible as WiFi is limited; click or tap each picture to make it larger - we are looking forward to the rest of the week!

Miss Jeebooah, Miss Saied and Mr Tooher

Tuesday!

We may have been a little trigger happy with the pictures today! Just goes to show how much fun we have been having.

Today we had a lot of fun outdoors with activities such as: orienteering, trapeze, problem solving, Jacob's ladder and giant swing - definitely check out the pictures from the giant swing - you can really see the moment the swing dropped!!

Some of us had the chance to take part in some fencing. I think the children might have enjoyed the chance to poke Mr Tooher with the foil a bit too much!!

We finished the day with a PGL Tournament which involved games such as dodgeball, hot seat, tic-tac-toe (with a twist) and ultimate frisbee to bring some fun competition to our trip!

If you can’t see pictures of any groups taking part in an activity that others have completed, fear not, as all children will have the opportunity to do all the same activities!

We think the fun has caught up with us as there are some very sleepy heads tonight who are snoring away incredibly quickly but looking forward to yet another fun day!!

Miss Jeebooah, Miss Saied and Mr Tooher

Wednesday!

All attempts to take less photos ended in simply taking even more today than yesterday!

After the excitement of TWO birthday celebrations, we all split off to get on with our activities for the day.

We enjoyed things such as: fencing and Jacob's ladder (for those that didn’t do them yesterday), all aboard, trapeze, aeroball, problem solving, zip wire and a sensory trail.

There was lots and lots of climbing today with activities like trapeze and all aboard! Everyone was climbing to new heights to leap for the bar - some even completing some pull ups to show off their muscles! All aboard saw 4 children climbing up to the same platform and completing challenges whilst up there. So many of our children conquered their fears with this activity!

Zip wire saw our children soaring about the heads of all passers by and gave us a taste of life in the clouds.

Aeroball was highly anticipated by the children and saw them bouncing away and playing a basketball like game in teams.

Last but by no means least, the sensory trail saw (or didn’t see!!) us use senses other than sight to navigate a small wooded area, crawling through tubes and climbing over small obstructions using our hands and communication skills with each other!

We finished the day with a singsong around the campfire, of course with a marshmallow each to get into the spirit (Miss Jeebooah and Miss Saied toasting them to PERFECTION!)

We are looking forward to our last full day with the kids tomorrow and will have even more photos to share I am sure!

Miss Jeebooah, Miss Saied and Mr Tooher

Birthday celebrations today!!!

The moment the birthday boys woke up!

Thursday!

The penultimate day here at PGL and we were graced with the presence of Miss Sexton; the children were definitely happy to see her! Being near the end of the week doesn’t mean the fun stops early. We will be going right through to lunch time tomorrow with activities before we head back to Westcourt!

Today saw some amazing activities going on with some catching up on the sensory trail, Jacob's ladder and aeroball!

We also had a lot of rock climbing, abseiling, buggy building and archery going on around the site.

Rock climbing was a blast and the sun made an appearance at the perfect time, with plenty of children showing off their inner Spider-Man and zooming right to the top!

Abseiling saw us doing the polar opposite to rock climbing… FALLING (safely of course!) Everyone was amazing at keeping their legs straight and taking the plunge to lean right over the edge of the tower.

I’m sure some of the children have an inner Robin Hood in them as we had bullseye after bullseye at the archery range!

Next, we got our Scrapheap Challenge on with some buggy building, using wooden poles, plastic drums and rope to make our own little vehicle, unfortunately it wouldn’t make it to the McDonald’s Drive Thru as our little legs got a bit tired after a fair few pushes!

The evening found us competing in some team building challenges like build the tallest shoe tower and make the longest line! We finished with making a package to cushion the fall of a water balloon - with only one surviving that was promptly throw at our amazing PGL group leader!

We are looking forward to finishing off our activities tomorrow and seeing you all again when we get home!!!

Mr Tooher, Miss Jeebooah and Miss Saied