We had a lovely breakfast of sausage, bacon, beans, tomatoes and toast, and/or cereal and fruit to set us up for our first two sessions today- the HILL WALK! We drove, by coach, to local National Trust land and began the long climb to the top. This was a challenging walk, up some very steep and rocky inclines but the view from the top was spectacular!
The session was led by the centre’s Chief Instructor who said that Chad Vale children were the best group he’s taken on a session for as long as he can remember and that the children were a credit to themselves, their parents and school! We were particularly impressed with the lack of whinging (that we normally get when asking Chad Valers to walk anywhere!) and the excellent effort made by many children, who although found it difficult, persevered and completed the activity!
The same may not be said for certain rooms who finally went quiet at around 1am, only to be wide awake and intent on waking everyone else up (in the boys end of the Lodge) at 4.20am. Some stern words were uttered by sleepy teachers and all went back to bed for another couple of hours. After today’s walk, we are expecting an earlier night’s sleep from all rooms, and our very early risers will be having their lights off extra early this evening (to ensure they awake refreshed and ready for Wednesday. ;-)
Top quotes of the day:
“The food is great here- can we take them back to do our Chad Vale dinners please?”
“I lose socks. My dad will tell me off if I lose my socks”
Will be sharing the tweets sent later with the children and will attempt some replies, however internet access is only available till 8pm here so I’m having to run down to the office to update the blog when I get a spare 10 minutes. Also have patchy mobile service but will try to text replies to your Twitter messages- please keep an eye out for messages on http://twitter.com/chadvaleprimary Thanks for everyone’s messages, if you haven’t seen it appear on our feed it because we’ve not had time (or connection) to retweet! How did we ever survive without t’internet?!
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