Thursday

 

Day 4 - Thursday 21st March

Group 1

Today group 1 had breakfast, we had toast, cereal and bacon rolls. The bacon was so nice it tasted of creamy heaven. We had coffee and tea and orange juice. After that we got ready for gorge walking. We got our waterproofs on and woolly bears and our bog boots and got into the mini bus. It was so wet the grey seats were black. We had to walk for a little bit and we were very hot and tired when we got to the gorge. We walked in the gorge and it was cold. Our boots got instantly full of water. The first slide we did was pretty slow, but we got pretty wet. The second slide was fast but dry, then we got to the giant pool and everyone jumped. It was as deep as Megan. Then we got to the mini waterfall and we got a picture taken. Then a long walk back to the mini bus in drenched in water. Then we got back and had lunch, freshened yup and got ready for the climbing tree. Only 6 people got to the top (Lao, John, Evie, Ella, Freya and Mrs Smith). Once the tree climbing was done we did an eco game. The first one we did was that we were given an egg box with 2 contrasts written in the lid. We had to find 3 things that match each of the contrasts and the other groups had to guess our contrasts. Then the last thing we did was the loop challenge. We had to put the loop over everyone. We had to do this before 16 seconds but we got 18 seconds. And that concludes Thursday’s activities.

Morgan and Lao

 

 

Group 2

Today are group are doing hill walk and tree climbing. At first we went on a hill walk for 4 hours. And when we were walking up the hill every one was really far up but Kieran was really far down the hill but he did not give up and he cot up with the group and made it up the hill. After everyone was back in a group we finished climbing up the hill. Then we walked back down the hill we went back to Lagganlia and took a rest then we got ready for tree climb. As we walked to the tree climb we found out it was a different tree than we thought it was. Almost everyone almost made it to the top and we all tried are hardest. After the pupils went Mrs Miller went at a very fast pace up a tree as tall as the school lunch hall. After that we got ready for tea we had pizza or fish.

Kieran and Cameron

 

Group 3

Today our group went out on an adventure we went to the mountains called Greag Leathan and Greag hiuthfachan, on the way up the hill me and Paula fell on me. About 10mins later we stopped and Keira stopped for like 20mins and everyone went away and we got lost but we found them. When we got half way up the hill we had a 2mins silence and hot chocolate or hot juice. After a yummy lunch we used flint and made pine needle and apple tea with the Kelly kettle. Then we started to climb down the hill and found a baby deer. It was asleep but we checked and it was a girl so we called her Ruby we had to leave her but it was good anyway.

Ruth, Paula and Rebbeka

 

Group 4

Today started off with the usual breakfast consisting of toast, cereal, orange juice, tea and coffee and bacon rolls. After our lovely breakfast we all rushed back to our bedrooms to do last minute tidying for our room inspections at 9:15. Thankfully everybody hot high scores. Next we gathered at the library with our instructor Jess to talk about the day ahead. We went to the bike store and lined up (shortest to tallest) to get our bikes. Once we got our bikes we practiced on the Lagganlia grounds then went on to cycle on rougher terrain. The first big hill we went down everyone was really nervous but fortunately nobody fell over. Later on we attempted Andy’s challenge which is a very steep hill that you have to try and cycle up. It looked far easier than it actually was! At Andy’s challenge their was bumps, scrapes and bruises but we all battled our way back to the centre to have a delicious lunch.

 

Later on that day we prepared to go kayaking down at the pond. We headed down to get wet suits, buoyancy aids and paddles from the Watersports store and then we got helmets from the main store. Eventually when everybody was changed we started to head down to the pond – with one person going off the path into a ditch to get a ball that we lost earlier. When we finally got to the pond we found a kayak that fitted our leg size. After Jess pushed our kayaks into the water we paddled around to learn how to control our boats. Unfortunately two certain people were not vey controlled (Jamie and Kirsty) and capsized after only about a little more than a minute after being in the water. Finally when everybody was in their boats we played a game where you had to collect the floating balls from the surface of the water. The next game we played was a game of frisbee in teams. To win the games your team had to make ten consecutive passes without dropping it in the water or having the other team get intercept it.  If that happened, the other team start a new 10.  We were sad to leave but had to get to the centre to get changed out of our cold wetsuits and checked for ticks.  After we were dry and showered we came back for hot chocolate with Jess.  Everybody was really excited about tea tonight as it was pizza or fish (both came with chips and salad).  It was really yummy!  We all enjoyed our tea.  

Kirsty and Emma

 

 

Group 5

TODAY’S TOP 12

What a bunch of human teddy bears

The slide of Chill

Kissing the back of the waterfall for 7 years luck [‘or chance’ says Sheldon}

Holey moley…. Jumping Cannonballs!

Team Lunch…what no napkins???

Moon Boots? No… Snowboarding boots

Slippin’ an’ a Slidin’

Sideways, Backways, Forwardways Anyways Allways… 

Bumpity Bump Crash Bang Wallop.

Finally, the three hard questions…. Hmmmmmm.

Presentation Time… New Sisters……!!!

Certificates. Didn’t we do well. Thanks Sarah.

Hammy and Connor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group 6

This morning we woke up at 9:15am we met with Kevin and he told us what we were doing, it was hill climbing. After the chat we got boots and waterproofs from the store. Then we went to the minibus and went to the hill. We got to the top of the hill but on the way there we saw lots of animal tracks, there were red deer, reindeer and grouse poop! We saw some grouse eggs but they were eaten by a predator. On the way back down the hill Kevin slipped on his bottom! Soon we went in the forest and Kevin showed us a wooden hut called Utsi’s hut. We had lunch in the hut and then we learned how to make a fire. So we made a fire and toasted marshmallows and got some chocolate for all our hard work.

Reece, Sam and Ryan

 

 

Group 7

Today’s adventure was Archery. We did Archery for 2 hours. At the start we could not even hit the target at first. After 20 minutes we did a competition, we started at thirty and we had to go down to zero. Steven, Harvey and Alannah won it, but the others were not far behind. We had a brake and then started again. We had another competition we had ten rounds Vinn came first with 17, then Alannah with 16 and then a few others Harvey got 73 and Kristi got 87 then we all cleared up and had lunch. In the afternoon our group “The Yipsters” which stands for Young Independent People went rock climbing, we got of the minny bus and got strapped into our harnesses. We walk to a big rock and TG got the ropes ready, whilst we played Chinese whispers. We got into groups of five and one person would climb and another would be the bell person they pulled the loose rope wiles the others pulled on the rope we all worked as a team.

Harvey and Kristi