Year 4
Bowles Residential Trip
We
We were
were finally
finally there!
there! We’d
We’d arrived
arrived at at Bowles.
Bowles. Thrilled
Thrilled
voices
voices chattered
chattered among
among a a very
very excited
excited Year
Year 4. 4. Everyone
Everyone
scrambled
scrambled off
off the
the bus,
bus, excited
excited to to collect
collect our
our suitcases
suitcases and
and
start
our
adventure.
The
first
challenge
was
rolling
our
start our adventure. The first challenge was rolling our
cases
cases up
up the
the steep
steep hill
hill to to our
our dormitory!
dormitory! It It seemed
seemed never-
never-
ending!
We
already
knew
it
would
be
an
exciting
day
ending! We already knew it would be an exciting day
ahead.
ahead.
We walked up the hill to the ski hut, full of excitement and clipped
our boots into our skis ready to go! We had some practice at the
bottom of the slope before tackling the button lifts. There were a
few very funny falls - our teachers found it hard not to laugh at us as
we lay on our backs, skis in the air! We skied higher and higher until
we reached the red slope. As we skied down, the cold breeze flew
past our faces like we were on a real mountain. We had a smashing
time!
We screamed for our lives as we whizzed down the zip wire,
heading at impressive speed! Our friends caught us by the feet and
brought us back to Earth. We all had jobs to do to help each other
complete the challenge - runners who fetched the clips, stair pullers
to help us climb down and a cheer squad .
The arrows were sharp and pointy and the bows were
enormous and long. It was really good fun, but quite
difficult. We had to wear an arm guard to protect against
the string scraping our arms. We played a game where the
colours on the target board represented ingredients in a
cake. Our teams had to hit every colour so we could have
the ingredients to make the cake! … we don’t think our
cakes would have tasted very good!
As we walked into the crystal clear water of the pool we saw
the equipment we would need for our raft building task. In
front of us were several tangled ropes, some narrow planks
of wood, four plastic drums, and six puzzle pieces. Piece by
piece we created our raft . Ropes were tied, wood was
lashed together with rope (somewhat hap-hazardly!) and
the rafts were launched… they went down like the
Titanic!
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