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Everdon Residential 2008

On Monday 12^th May, Class 2 went on a residential visit to Everdon Activity Centre. The weather was glorious throughout our whole stay and enabled us to remain outside from dawn ‘til dusk.

On the first day we went ‘Stream Dipping’ in the village stream, where the children caught and identified a wide variety of ‘bugs’.

In a nearby wood, we did a ‘Blind Trail’. The children, again blindfolded, and wearing helmets, followed each other around the woods, one hand holding a rope, the other the person in front – a true test of trust! Georgia Darlington thought the day “was a great and fantastic day for everyone!”

The following day’s activities involved a visit to Everdon Stubbs, where first the children explored the woods on a ‘Bear Hunt’; each pair taking the lead and making decisions on which directions the group should follow, the aim being to become as lost as possible! Next we went ‘Tree Hugging’: the children were led blindfolded by their partners to a tree to ‘hug’ and investigate, then led back (a different way!) to the start. On removing their blindfolds, they then had to locate the tree they had ‘hugged’- a true lesson in disorientation!

On the following day, we visited a wood at ‘Foxhill Farm’, where the children had a great time learning how to build a fire, light a fire, whittle sticks, eat baked potatoes and cook marshmallows. Evie Buller described these activities well: “The first pile had to be very thin sticks, the second pile had to be as thin as a pencil and the third pile had to be anything bigger than a pencil size. Soon after that we did some stick whittling so we could roast our scrumptious, soft, chewy marshmallows.