Ms Rumbol
Had a very successful trip to Stansted Airport on Friday with Year 12 Travel & Tourism students. They had a tour around the Airport, talks from Had of customer service about how the airport operates as a business, plus talks from Airfield Ops, Fire crew and Cabin crew. They were impeccably behaved and the presenters were very impressed with their knowledge and enthusiasm. I think the highlight however was the fact that they were allowed to meet and mingle with the Borussia Dortmund football team who were flying out that morning! Couldn’t have planned that better if I had tried. This resulted in lots of very happy students and ‘selfies’ that they will treasure forever!
Ms Rumbol
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A huge thank you to everybody who donated so generously to the shoe box appeal this week. Over 100 boxes were filled ready to be sent to children and adults in time for Christmas.
“Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.” William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Every year, there are national events that give us the chance to support others in a worse off position than us – Comic Relief or Children in Need are two obvious examples. And every school, every pupil will be involved in other efforts to help those in need of our support – through sponsored events and fundraising. Is it a sign of weakness to need the support of others? Is it only the feeble who need other people to help them get up and function effectively in the world? In any group of people, whether it is a school class, a club, or a group of friends, there will be those who are stronger than others and those who are weaker. Most of us will be somewhere in the middle along that particular line. But we all need the support of other people – and even if we don’t feel we need it at the moment, there may come a period in our lives when we do. But if we do not believe it is our place to help others and show them support, why should anybody do the same for us? First day:
It all started when we turned up to the school nice and early and sorted the last things out before we squeezed the suitcases into the coaches and headed of to hatfield forest. We were in tribes of our own choice and our first activity was fire, sadly we could not keep our fire lit so we got the camp leader, Glen to help us out. We cooked kebabs on the fire, They were not very tasty . Our next activity was shelter and as a tribe we had to build a shelter, we then had the chance to sleep in them. I thought that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and i took the chance and slept for the night. second day: One of the camp favourite was a game called predator, the objective was to get to the man in the woods without being spotted. You had 5 seconds to run and on five he would turn around and send anyone he sees to the starting line. We had a big cooked breakfast in the morning, we then had cutting tools/survival bracelets and had our nutrition talk and went on a lovely walk around a miniature part of the forest because it was huge. We had pizza for lunch and trap making, followed by popcorn. One of my favourite activities was the camouflage and concealment, we got to wear face paint on our face and played games, we then watched how to panass salmon, they then cooked the salmon and bon appetite dinner was served!! We then later around the campfire and sang songs and met up with the other camps. We all had big discussions about our funny experiences so far at bushcraft. I then slept in the shelter for the second night third day: We woke up to delicious american pancakes with divine chocolate sauce. We learnt about wilderness survival and I had to race in the winter survival bag and we won! Later on the camp tucked into the lovely rice crispy goo. The main activity was the bushcraft challenge, we had to build a small hut, a fire, trap and also help heal our tribe leader. We sadly could not sustain a fire but we borrowed a fire for some lovely marshmallows. Following that for lunch we had fajitas for lunch, they were scrumptious. All camps then packed up, said our goodbyes and left the camp. |
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March 2016
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