Year 7's abseil from Plymouth College!

 

The year 7 students abseiling down the outside of the school rather than having lessons inside!

 

 

 

By kind permission of the Headmaster we were able to use a tree in his garden to run a crate stack

 

 

 

Activity week going Climbing

After Sailing on Monday and Kayaking yesterday, the swimmers were climbing today at the Dewerstone.  Lots of sunshine with a gentle breeze to keep the flies away.

Activities Week Day 6

Year 8 Coasteering

On the second day of Year 7 and 8 activities, the 7's had a walk round Mount Edgecombe out to Cawsand and back.

The Year 8's went Coasteering, Climbing and Biking with each student taking part in a different activity to yesterday

Activities Week Day 5

Year 8 Coasteering

Today is the start of Year 7 and 8 Activities. The 7's visited the Plymouth Aquarium and then had a swim at the Lido on the Hoe.

Year 8's went Coasteering, Climbing and Biking

Activities Week Day 4

Year 9 Caving

Year 9 Kayaking

 Year 9 Sailing

Today is the last day of Year 9 and 10 activities. Year 9's were out Climbing, Surfing, Biking, Sailing, Caving and Kayaking

Years 10's were out with CCF, DofE Bronze, JSLA who had their Sports Festival today and Art

Activities Week Day 3

Year 9 Surfing

Year 9's were out Climbing, Surfing, Biking, Sailing, Caving and Kayaking

Years 10's were out with CCF, DofE Bronze who finished their expedition on Exmoor today, JSLA and Art

Activities Week Day 2

 Year 9 Sailing

 

Year 9 Surfing

Year 9 Climbing

Year 9's were out Climbing, Surfing, Biking, Sailing, Caving and Kayaking

Years 10's were out with CCF, DofE Bronze who started their expedition today, JSLA and Art

Activities Week started today

 

Year 7 at Woodlands

Year 9 Climbing 

Year 9 Surfing

This year the first day of Activities Week is a Friday so we all get a weekend to recover

Year 7's were at Woodlands

Year 8's were at Kents Cavern

Year 9's were out Climbing, Surfing, Biking, Sailing, Caving and Kayaking

Years 10's were out with CCF, DofE, JSLA and Art.

End of Activities week

 

Today on the 5th day of activities week, all Year 8 students went to Quay West for some fun on the flumes, year 9 and Year 7continued rotating through the activities on offer. The D of E Bronze group had a relaxing swim after their expedition yesterday.

Activities Week Day 4

 

Another batch of activities going on with years 7 and 8 swapping between the range we have on offer and year 7's went to Paington Zoo.

Well done to the Bronze D of E students who completed their qualifying Expedition on Exmoor earlier today.

Activities Week Day 3

Students all out doing similar activities to Monday, we are half way through the week now and all students are having a good time.

"Today I went kayaking, it was really good even though I got wet feet and the rest of me got wet aswell". Harry (Year 9)

"Coasteering scores 8/10. You lose 1 point because the water was cold and another point because of the jelly fish getting in the way" (Year 8 student)

Activities Week Day 2

Today all the students were out doing different activities to what they did yesterday. The year 7's had the added bonus of some orienteering.

Well done to the 25 Year 10 students who have completed the Bronze National Navigation Award Scheme.

Activities Week Day 1

On Day 1 of Actvities week over 200 students jumped on one of the 22 minibuses and headed off for some adventure, Year 7 students undertook some activities on school site before going off to the ski slope, Year 8 students went Coasteering, Trail Cycling, visited Landmatters and learnt some bushcraft skills. Year 9 students went Caving, Windsurfing, Sailing, Kayaking, Trail Cycling and visted the Aquarium. Year 10 students were out on Art visits, CCF Camp and Bronze D of E expeditions.