July 7th 2017
Resilience and teamwork in abundance!
Year Six enjoyed a varied week of activities with two days spent off-site followed by Wednesday and Thursday at Moulsford. The week focused on building resilience and teamwork - something which the boys demonstrated in abundance.
On Monday and Tuesday the boys went to Rushall Farm near Bradfield for a series of outdoor activities ranging from sheep herding (minus the dog) and river dipping to archery, climbing and even caving! Before camping out for the night we also stayed up late in the hope of detecting bats (unsuccessful) and enjoying some extremely varied displays of talent around our campfire (happily more successful).
Wednesday saw us back in school using everything the school site has to offer to teach boys a number of skills for a challenge day on the Thursday. These included signalling methods, raft construction and team-building exercises. As if this wasn’t enough, we then went for a journey by canoe and on foot for a barbecue before returning back to school for a mass sleepover in the theatre. Incredibly we all did get a decent night’s sleep!
Thursday centred on a teamwork challenge which had boys constructing protective packaging for some tomatoes (so that we could throw them from the sports hall balcony), a mini raft to transport them on (so that we could throw them in the river) as well as an archery competition and signalling challenge (a disappointing lack of throwing). At the end of all this we engaged in some organised chaos with Moulsford’s second annual tomatina!
Thoroughly exhausted from two overnight stays, multifarious outdoor activities and throwing hundreds of tomatoes at one another it was definitely time to head home! Thank you to all of the staff for making this week such a success and the boys for getting stuck into everything that was thrown at them (including the tomatoes).
