The Hills Are Alive ... With The Sound Of Raindrops!

OK, we’re tired of the light Summer rain now and would like the grey skies to turn to blue. Not that the kids seem to be taking much notice, while, on the other hand, the drier in the laundry must be fully aware by now.

To give you a flavour of a typical day on camp (if there is such a thing); The kids will explain:

We sleep in an old boarding house away from where we do our activities. We have separate rooms. I am staying in a room with Stella, which I am really glad about. The rooms are very spacious and there is a lot of storage room. - Stevie

Sleeping peacefully, we are woken up by Jay hammering on our door and saying ‘Get up and be downstairs in twenty minutes!’ – Isaac

Every morning it is interesting when we get up because we don’t know what activities we’ll be doing. - Josh

At 7:30, we go next door to Sexey School (which everyone finds absolutely hilarious) and have breakfast in their canteen. The food is delicious, but the teenagers who share the canteen with us are really scary. – Ava and Alexey

After breakfast we walk to Mill on the Brue for the day’s activities. There are loads of really colourful flowers and vegetables growing in their grounds. We have to get there by 9am for the first set of activities and on some days we finish the last activity at 9pm! We are split into two groups, but over the week we will all get to try the same activities as the other group. – Stella

I think Mill on the Brue is really cool because there is a lot of nature. In London there are lots of cars and people, but here there are lots of fields and trees and you can run, run, run! - Johnny

The activities that we are doing are really fun. In tunneling, we had to go deep under the ground into tunnels and we had to make our way through twisting passages. – Anna

Different activities require different skills. Leap of Faith (when you jump off a really high platform) you have to have confidence and in tunneling you have to have a good memory or you get lost. – Evie

My favourite activity has been the Leap of Faith. It was scary when you had to stand up on the tiny platform, but it was fun to jump off. – Lottie

I loved Leap of Faith and canoeing. I look forward to doing more activities tomorrow. – Milou

All of the activities have been huge fun. I really liked Saved the River, in which we had to work together to move a big plastic container over a river, because it was fun to make stuff. I also liked archery because I had to aim carefully and we played games. – Xiao-Xiao

I loved going down the water slide yesterday. I didn’t like that the water was freezing, but it was fun to pretend to be a superhero while sliding down the hill. - Bashayer

We have snacks, lunch and dinner in the Long House, which is the Mill on the Brue canteen. The food is amazing, though you get given small portions. Thankfully, they let you have seconds … and thirds … and …. I had five portions yesterday! – George

I love having all this time to play with my friends. We have breaks in-between activities and we get to play on this huge field. - Franklin

Enjoy the photos!