Day 5…

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The time has finally come to leave Rookesbury Park. We have just finished packing our suitcases, and are waiting to start the first of our final two activities – initiative exercise and team challenge (team 1) and mini beasts and fencing (team 2).

We’ve had a great experience and enjoyed doing things we’ve never done before.

We have really enjoyed reading everyone’s comments and can’t wait to see everyone. We’re looking forward to home cooking, watching T.V and getting some proper sleep.

More pictures will be uploaded soon.

Good bye for now…see you all soon.

Over and out from the Blair Peach Bloggers.

 

Day 4…

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The penultimate day had finally arrived!! After breakfast, we split into 2 teams again and started off with archery and initiative exercises.

Archery was amazing because we learnt how to aim an arrow at a target, however, pulling back the string was more difficult than it looked.

The initiative exercises were very challenging as it required a lot of thinking skills before you attempted each exercise. After lunch, both teams did the rocket launch and mini beasts.

Rocket launch was extremely exciting as we had to make our own rockets out of plastic bottles, then fill them with water, attach it to a pump and…pump until lift off!! They went flying!!

The mini beasts activity was interesting because we had to search for creepy crawlies under leaves, wood and stones. We even found an unusual love bug!

To finish off the adventurous day, we headed back into the woods for the camp fire. We watched everyones’ talents, sang songs and told riddles and jokes.

When we arrived back at our rooms, we had a sweet, little treat and fell fast asleep…

Day 5 coming soon…

 

Day 3…

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After a good rest, we were ready to take on day 3 at Rookesbury Park!

We were split into 2 groups and half of us took part in a sensory trail activity, whilst the other half did ‘survival!’

During survival, we  made shelters out of tarpaulin sheets, rope and nothing else in the woods. It’s amazing how little you need to be able to survive in the cold, wet woods.

The sensory trail required us to completely trust in each other and work as a team, whilst relying on our other senses when one (sense of sight) is taken away from us. It was interesting to see what was in front of us when we lifted our blindfolds!

Next, we faced our previous days fears and took on the climbing wall which was down the other side of the abseiling tower. Each of us climbed to our comfortable heights and all of us were impressed with our ability to climb higher than we thought we could.

After lunch, one half of the team took part in the buggy activity and the circus activity (swapped from yesterday) and the other half did climbing and the sensory trail.

To finish the day, Mr Canning and Miss Jiggins took some of us to play football, before we prepared for film night… The bloggers are now off to join the rest of the team to watch ‘Despicable Me’ and relax!

Goodnight!

Day 4 coming soon…

 

 

 

Day 2…

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Abseiling – Day 2

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Day 2 of our trip and we all managed to wake up, despite having such a late night. After our filling breakfast, we went on to the first of our activities – abseiling!

Abseiling was a huge challenge for everyone, and we all attempted to take the big jump down. Everyone met their own challenges – it was such a huge, scary height and so many of us faced our own fears.

The second activity was fencing for half the group and circus skills for the other. Fencing was extremely exciting for all the children, even with a stuffy face mask and we got some great pictures of our amazing moves. Circus skills was very tricky, especially when we had to juggle with 3 bean bags. Our favourite trick was learning how to use the flower stick (pictures coming soon).

Moving on to our third activity of the day…

Buggy challenge and dance mania!

Buggy challenge pushed us to use our creativity to make a moving buggy out of plastic, wood and rope. We all succeeded in being pulled along by our own inventions!

Dance mania required us to compose our own dance sequences and the girls and boys had a dance off! It was very tiring but we all improved our dancing skills!

Mini Olympics finished off the last of the day activities and we all learnt the hammer throw, the discus, the shot put, the javelin and the long jump! Everyone learnt something new and pushed their skills to the Olympic limit!

On to the last activity of the day, after dinner, we all took part in giant Cluedo. It was like a giant board game of Cluedo and we had to solve the mystery of who murdered Billy Banana…

Find out how we solved the mystery in Day 3’s blog…

 

Day 1 …

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Orienteering – Day 1

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Year 5’s trip to Rookesbury Park started with a short coach trip to Fareham. The weather was looking grey and wet, but luckily it became brighter whilst Year 5 were doing their activities.

But before that, we were shown around the massive house and grounds and of course, we were shown our rooms . No time to unpack though, as it was time for our first activity … Orienteering and Team Challenge! Orienteering was challenging but one team finished 9 out of 10 stamps, which  was really good considering they were so well concealed .

Later on after dinner, we gathered together for Nocturnal Safari! We learned about nocturnal creatures and even searched for some in the woods . Then,  two children at a time  pretended to be  nocturnal creatures by wearing blackout goggles, whilst all the other children tried to get past them without being pointed out (heard).

Finally, it was time for bed … But do you think any of the children could get  to sleep ?

DAY 2 COMING SOON!

 

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