Day 3
Hello! Here's a run-down of day 3.
Everyone went to bed at a decent time last night and when I woke up at 7am this morning, I was greeted with... total and utter silence. I first assumed that the noise of the dining hall had meant that I was now completely deaf, but I was pleased to realise that we had in fact, at last, tired them out.
Having dragged the children out of their beds and rooms, they had breakfast and then went off to play some game whilst Mrs Jaworski and I went round for our room inspections.
Pleasingly, they were all much tidier (even the boys!) and we were greeted with some more fantastic teddy arrangements. My personal favourite was a 'school staff room' scene created by April, Sophie, Summer and Jasmin.
In this, some of the toys were playing a game of cards that was clearly very competitive and stressful. One member of staff had ripped up their cards in frustration whilst another was sulking in the corner. On the other side of the room, another member of staff was taking out their anger on someone by shoving their face into a giant cake.
It's interesting to see their perspective of staff rooms and how much respect they feel fellow teachers have for each other. Of course, this scene isn't really at all how it is. We usually play chess, not cards.
Quite a few of the activities we did over the day were the same as yesterday (with different children doing them of course) but here are a couple of new ones:
- High ropes
The children climbed up to a high height, they were strapped into a harness and attached onto large guide rail. They then had to travel round a series of obstacles, often with very little to hold onto in a Go-Ape style activity. I really enjoyed watching the children do this for several reasons. Firstly, as no one made me take part (it was a really long way down and several obstacles looked really wobbly!) and as they were really good at encouraging each other. Of special note, were the children who were initially very nervous but managed to either get all the way round (Summer, Alicia, Nyah and Josie to name a few) or at least do much more than they thought they'd be able to do. It was great to see so many of them trying something that was clearly nerve-racking.
- Archery
They learnt how to shoot arrows at things. I'm a little dubious of teaching them this skill, especially for when I next give out spellings, but they did well. The only problem was the fact that the bows were a bit wonky. At least I assume that's the reason why they were all better than I was.
- Giant swing
In pairs, they went in harness, were hoisted up in a small, metal seat and then they were released to swing in a huge arc. Again, nearly everyone gave this a go and lots of children chose to go right up to the highest height for their swing. Mrs Jaworski had a go with Hezekiah and they agreed that they'd only go half-way up.
However, little did she know that Hezekiah had already spoken to the instructor and told him to go right the way up to the maximum. Mrs Jaworski still isn't speaking to Hezekiah, but she did admit that,"It was pretty terrible and scary at the start but enjoyable once that's over with." The same comment she made when she started teaching her new class this year.
After all that, I drove home and was released by the much more able Mrs Nock. I text Mrs Jaworski to see what they'd done tonight and she said:
"Great chicken dancing at the campfire and sharing of riddles. Hez won the chicken dance and they learnt the banana song. Everyone joined in which was impressive."
Nope. I've no idea what most of the means either, but Mrs Jaworkski is working very hard and isn't getting lots of sleep. Let's hope this isn't all just in her head.
More photos below. Sorry if your child doesn't appear anywhere, I'm doing my best to buzz around to all groups but it's tricky. Still, there are lots of other photos that other people have taken that will hopefully go up on the website at some point in the near future.
Everyone went to bed at a decent time last night and when I woke up at 7am this morning, I was greeted with... total and utter silence. I first assumed that the noise of the dining hall had meant that I was now completely deaf, but I was pleased to realise that we had in fact, at last, tired them out.
Having dragged the children out of their beds and rooms, they had breakfast and then went off to play some game whilst Mrs Jaworski and I went round for our room inspections.
Pleasingly, they were all much tidier (even the boys!) and we were greeted with some more fantastic teddy arrangements. My personal favourite was a 'school staff room' scene created by April, Sophie, Summer and Jasmin.
In this, some of the toys were playing a game of cards that was clearly very competitive and stressful. One member of staff had ripped up their cards in frustration whilst another was sulking in the corner. On the other side of the room, another member of staff was taking out their anger on someone by shoving their face into a giant cake.
It's interesting to see their perspective of staff rooms and how much respect they feel fellow teachers have for each other. Of course, this scene isn't really at all how it is. We usually play chess, not cards.
Quite a few of the activities we did over the day were the same as yesterday (with different children doing them of course) but here are a couple of new ones:
- High ropes
The children climbed up to a high height, they were strapped into a harness and attached onto large guide rail. They then had to travel round a series of obstacles, often with very little to hold onto in a Go-Ape style activity. I really enjoyed watching the children do this for several reasons. Firstly, as no one made me take part (it was a really long way down and several obstacles looked really wobbly!) and as they were really good at encouraging each other. Of special note, were the children who were initially very nervous but managed to either get all the way round (Summer, Alicia, Nyah and Josie to name a few) or at least do much more than they thought they'd be able to do. It was great to see so many of them trying something that was clearly nerve-racking.
- Archery
They learnt how to shoot arrows at things. I'm a little dubious of teaching them this skill, especially for when I next give out spellings, but they did well. The only problem was the fact that the bows were a bit wonky. At least I assume that's the reason why they were all better than I was.
- Giant swing
In pairs, they went in harness, were hoisted up in a small, metal seat and then they were released to swing in a huge arc. Again, nearly everyone gave this a go and lots of children chose to go right up to the highest height for their swing. Mrs Jaworski had a go with Hezekiah and they agreed that they'd only go half-way up.
However, little did she know that Hezekiah had already spoken to the instructor and told him to go right the way up to the maximum. Mrs Jaworski still isn't speaking to Hezekiah, but she did admit that,"It was pretty terrible and scary at the start but enjoyable once that's over with." The same comment she made when she started teaching her new class this year.
After all that, I drove home and was released by the much more able Mrs Nock. I text Mrs Jaworski to see what they'd done tonight and she said:
"Great chicken dancing at the campfire and sharing of riddles. Hez won the chicken dance and they learnt the banana song. Everyone joined in which was impressive."
Nope. I've no idea what most of the means either, but Mrs Jaworkski is working very hard and isn't getting lots of sleep. Let's hope this isn't all just in her head.
More photos below. Sorry if your child doesn't appear anywhere, I'm doing my best to buzz around to all groups but it's tricky. Still, there are lots of other photos that other people have taken that will hopefully go up on the website at some point in the near future.
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