We are off to a great start for our Year 3 & 4 residential.   Our day started with a tour of the site and going through the all important safety rules for our visit before we were took all our luggage to our rooms and started unpacking and getting through our first team work challenge of making up our beds.  Putting fitted sheets on bunk beds is not easy, but everyone was able to make their beds and get their duvet the right way around in the cases.   We ate our lunch in the dining room to enjoy some shade, before spending some time starting our journals then heading into our two afternoon activities: areoball - think basketball on a trampoline - and orienteering around the site.   

These sessions were great fun and everyone really enjoyed working together and being competitive.   By the end of the afternoon, it was getting very hot, so we decided the best way to cool down was with an enormous water fight.  By the end, everyone was soaked and laughing their heads off.   It didn't take us long to dry out playing some games in front of our lodge then everyone had a shower and changed for dinner.   

Chef Alex cooked up 'the best mac'n'cheese I've ever eaten', 'delicious meatballs' and treated us all to chocolate brownie and ice-cream for dessert.   All 24 plates were spotless at the end of the meal.  

After dinner we organised our rooms ready for our first inspection, then headed off on a 4KM walk along the shoreline towards Chidham.   We saw beautiful scenery, recapped lots of our history, geography and science curriculum and admired the golden sunset.   Having made it back at 9:30 all teeth were brushed and everyone is settled into bed.  

This link will take you to a video showing all the photos from today.