Wednesday 8 June 2016

Long, long Wednesday

Weather report - start of the day foggy, burnt off by mid-morning and bright sunshine for the rest of the day.  Lots of activities and lots more fun with lots of personal challenges.  Let's hear some...


Wednesday-group 2

Scott T                                                                                          Scott R

Today our team climbed Meall a’ Bhuachaille in the Glenmore forest park it felt like my thighs were on fire. When we got to the top we had our packed lunch and hot chocolate. After our lunch we went down a steep hill. On our way back we passed Loch Morlich. We walked eight miles in four hours ad ten minutes. It was hard but the view was beautiful.


 

Tuesday Night.-group 3-Danny, Kate and Ewan

On Tuesday night we did orienteering, the weather was dismal. But that did not stop the midges. A lot of teams got lost on number nineteen; it got a lot of us lost. We teamed up with other Orkney schools.



Wednesday-group 3 Danny, Kate and Ewan

Morning

Our day started with getting equipped to go absailing.   We went to a forest with a random cliff in the middle. Rafa got the gear set up, Erica went first and made good speed. Soon after Ewan was good until – he crashed landed. Yet Danny and Kate wasn’t keen – but Danny had the power and made it alive. On the other hand Kate got tricked and ended up doing something she did not want to do. Over all absailing was great with the help and encouragement all of our friends, but most of all Rafa.

Afternoon
In the afternoon we went canoeing! , it was so much fun and we need to say a very big well done to Kate who tripped on the ledge of the canoe and fell in! We worked on paddle skills. After we went swimming we played catch. We round up the canoeing as fun, though sore.

 
 

Wednesday-group 1

We went canoeing and we did archery. In archery we had competitions. We did boys vs. girls, the boys won the first one by six points and Charlotte won overall on the second one the girls won by 48 points and Megan won overall. We also did tree climbing which was a big tree that had wood blocks on it, it was very hard but almost everyone made it to the top. Megan went first (very brave of her). If you get to the top you get to ring the bell and in between the archery and tree climbing we sat and Mike (our very awesome instructor) gave us sweeties and biscuit.

Then we got stuff for canoeing and got on the bus to loch Insh where we canoed & played some games. Justine & Thorfinn were the first to capsize. In the first game Mike threw some tennis balls and we had to sail towards them and take them into our boats and count how many we had. After that we had a swim and went back to the centre we had tea and went for our night activity which was  night line it was an activity that we were all blind folded and went around a course following a piece of rope!

By Leah and Jessica
Note from Mrs. Coltherd – we saw ospreys circling their nest.


 
Wednesday-group 5

Hello!

Today my group went on A LONG cycle around Glenfeshie. It got a bit tiring going uphill and over bumps, roots of trees and stones. We also did tree climbing it was a MASSIVE tree!

I (Erin C) only got half way and chickened out. Some people got all the way up! What! Also, Erin C dropped and kept falling for 213 seconds.

And thats around our day it was AMAZING BYE!

By, Morgan & Erin C

Wednesday-group 4

This morning me and my group went canoeing, it was very hard at the start but me and my group got the grip of it eventually. Jude our instructor showed us how to turn around in a 360 degrees turn again we got it eventually) Jude threw some plastic balls into the water to see which boat got the most of them. Then we went to an island in the river, lit a fire and made hot chocolate. At the end of the lesson we got to capsize the canoe and go for a good old swim. By Josie 7E

 

After lunch we took a minibus to a forest with a big cliff in it to go ABSAILING.First we had to walk up the path with our harnesses and helmets on, we set our bags down and when it was our turn we got the ropes hooked on to us. When we went down we had to lean back so we were sideways. I flipped upside down when I was half way down the cliff on my second go but I managed to get the right way again. On the way back through the forest we picked some leaves called wild sorrel and they tasted like apples. By Eylee

P.S the wild sorrel was edible.








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