Lakeside 20-24th May 2002

Year 5 spent a wet but wonderful week at the YMCA National Centre at Lakeside on Lake Windermere.

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Sleeping in tents and enjoying three activity sessions each day all the children met and overcame personal and team challenges during the week.

Activities included:

• Negotiating a ropes course

• Riding a runway "ZIP Wire" over water

• Orienteering

• Canoeing in open Canadian style canoes

• Climbing on an indoor climbing wall

• Abseiling down a tall tree

• An 'Earthwalk' - getting close to nature

• Paddling a large canoe (14 people) to the Lakeland Aquarium

• Walking to and visiting a Victorian bobbin mill

• Archery

• Negotiating an obstacle course

• Flying through the trees on the "King Swing"

• Kayaking

• A camp fire for the whole party

• Rock Climbing and Abseiling 'real rocks'

All the children were a credit to themselves and the school the whole time and kept up high spirits despite very wet conditions with heavy downpours and sometime thunder and lightening