What an amazing day we have all had! After a surprisingly calm and restful night’s sleep, the children were up and ready to go this morning. We have been so proud of how all the children have eased in to their new routines and embraced every opportunity they have been given. There has been incredible team work, acts of bravery and a steely determination to try new activities.

To make the day even greater, it is Adam’s birthday and what an unforgettable day it has been! We have made sure throughout the day he got all the ‘birthday boy’ preferential treatments from being first up the magic ladder to leading his team up the ghyll (even ‘seconds’ at dinner time). After dinner, we all gathered together to sing for the third time today ‘Happy Birthday’ and celebrated with this magnificent cake, that we can’t wait to tuck in to as our evening snack!

Mrs Harrison and Mr Nay’s group today, enjoyed a lovely canoe across the lake to do a spot of climbing up a rock face. Then this afternoon, we had wind surfing on the lake- the children were fabulous at this!

Mrs Mather’s group had a wonderful walk up the ghyll this morning and then in the afternoon faced their fears on the ‘leap of faith’ challenge and balancing on top of poles.

Mrs Webster’s group this morning completed the high ropes challenge and climbing and then had a very wet walk up the ghyll this afternoon.

We really could not ask any more of these children, they are giving everything such a good go, but most importantly working as a team and really looking after to one another.

What a pleasure they are to take away! They will most definitely sleep well tonight after such an active day!