Bright and early this morning, we all got dressed and showered ready for our room inspection and breakfast. We all scored well on the tidying and enjoyed a tasty meal of sausage, egg and beans. After breakfast, we had to get ourselves prepared for water sports activities.

Filled with excitement, we all hot footed it up to the water sports chalet to meet our instructors and get all of the equipment. With a wiggle and a squeeze we made it into our wetsuits (with only one split bottom seam!) and listened to the safety talk carefully.

The beach was a little walk from the centre along some twisty paths; very tricky to manouvre an oar or padel through these but we all made it in one piece. When we arrived at the beach, we used our excellent listening skills again to make sure that we all stayed safe and had fun. Miss Surman had one final check that she had the correct footwear on and then it was time to take to the water.

Everyone really enjoyed their time in the canoes and kayaks even if we needed a little helping hand at first. Miss Bairstow even lost a shoe in the quicksand and had to borrow Miss Surman’s to walk home. Thank goodness for the emergency high heels in Miss Surman’s rucsack!

Back at PGL, we all warmed up with a hot shower then enjoyed a lunch of burgers, chips and salad. I hope we will have enough energy to enjoy our afternoon activities and of course, the disco!

Tight squeeze!

OOOOPS!!!

“Thisis great fun!”

What good listening skills you have!

Some of us learnt some great survival skills today. How to build a shelter and start a camp fire using flint. It was a tricky and physical task that needed a lot of team work and concentration but we got there in the end. I’m not sure I would want to test the shelters out in the bad weather though!

Smile!

You can do it!

We better go now and catch up with Mrs Hudson and the others at the campfire, singing songs and enjoying toasted marshmallows. (I hope they saved us one) Pictures will follow tomorrow. Fingers crossed for an early night tonight. Miss Surman and Miss Bairstow

Then we were onto our activities.  The groups spent the morning doing Aeroball, Zip Wire and Archery and fantastic fun has been had by all.  There were a few nerves and tears on the zip wire but once Miss Surman composed herself she was ok!!!!!  All of the staff participated actively and Mr Pearson was lucky enough to secure himself a knife, fork and spoon to eat his dinner with due to his archery precision!!!  Aeroball was a new venture this year and has so far proved to be the most popular.

We are off to lunch now and we will blog again as soon as we can.

Getting kitted out for the Zip Wire.

Some people are just far too excited!!

On Friday night we took off on a night hike around the country lanes that surround the PGL centre and we had great fun.  The PGL staff made sure we were kept nice and safe as we had to be aware that there were drop spiders and drop bears lurking in the trees.  We also saw some houses that belong to the rich and famous and by the time we got back we were all ready for a hot shower before bedtime.

Beware of the drop spiders!

After a short coach journey to Southampton, it was time to get on the ferry.  We quickly settled ourselves on the seats outside and enjoyed waving goodbye to the mainland as we set sail for the Isle of Wight.  It was avery calm journey and the sun even made a brief appearance for us.

It was only a short distance from East Cowes to the PGL site and, before we knew it, we were checking in and meeting our leaders.  Scott, Connor and Georgie explained all the rules to us and we listened really carefully. 

THEN . . .  it was time to unpack our belongings and settle into our rooms.  Interestingly, the boys made short work of getting their rooms spic and span and the Room Points were allocated accordingly.  

It didn’t take us long to unpack and then the time we had all been waiting for . . .  DINNER TIME!!!!  The options were roast pork or battered cod, with potato wedges, peas, carrots, salad bar and waffle with toffee sauce.  DELICIOUS.  Many of the children had seconds or thirds and there was even a ‘fourths’ for one person!!!  At the end of our meal we sang Happy Birthday to Jack and we are looking forward to sharing his birthday cake after our night hike.  We are off on that at 7:30pm and we’ll update you with more pictures from that later.  We are missing you all lots but having LOADS of fun!! 

Please click on the link below to view the menu for week beginning 13th May 2013

Menu for this week is – WEEK 2

And part 2……the KS2 newsletters!

Year 3 Newsletter Summer Term 1

Y4 Curriculum Newsletter Summer 1

Y5 Summer Curriculum Newsletter 1

Y6 Summer term news letter

You should all have received your curriculum newsletter last Friday that outlines what your child will be learning this term and how you can help at home.  We are all very excited about the final term’s exciting topics and can’t wait to show you what we;ve been up to on the website!

Here are links to your child’s newsletter:

Moonstones Newsletter summer term page 1

Moonstones Newsletter summer term page 2

Foundation Stage 2 Newsletter summer term

Remember school is closed today for the May Bank Holiday!  See you at 8.45 tomorrow.

Don’t forget that suncream!!

Please click on the link below to view the menu for week beginning 6th May 2013

We used layers of milk and white to make sedimentary.

Then we made igneous rock.

We had to press really hard with our hands to apply heat and pressure to make a hard, smooth rock.

Finally Miss Parker made metamorphic – that involved lots of heat so she dipped her chocolate rock in tea! We then left it to cool.

It was such a fun lesson!