Year 6 Residential

🧳 Diary of the year 6 travellers! 🧳

Friday 19th May

Well, we’ve come to the end of a spectacular residential. Our bags 🧳 were all packed and we went for our final breakfast 🍳 of the holiday. It was a bacon 🥓 , fried egg 🍳 and hash brown kind of day for most of us. Some children had cereal 🥣 and yoghurt.

We did the final checks then headed towards our bus 🚌 waiting point. We had to take a minibus 🚐 to the main coach because it was too big to get down the lane to Calvert. The children 👧 👦 were fab. It was a long journey to the airport! Lots of traffic 🚗 🚙 🚗 🚗 🚙.

We arrived and checked in immediately before going through fast track security. Only 3 bag checks to do!! 🤩 Almost immediately, our gate was called and we went off to gate 27. Bristol airport was very busy and we stuck close to our group leaders. We were so rushed we didn’t get to stop at McDonald’s! No fries for us 😞!

We were all amazingly patient when waiting for the plane ✈️. Now was our last chance to raid the teachers 👩🏻🧔‍♂️sweetie 🍬 and fruit 🍏 🍎 🍊 🍌 stash!! Mrs Sullivan 👩🏻‍🏫 bought us all some water🚰 and then we boarded the plane at 14.20.

The flight ✈️ was fairly uneventful, just a chance for us to finish all the crisps and sweets 🍬 we still had. The trip had one final surprise for us. As we came into land, the pilot 👨‍✈️ misjudged the runway and couldn’t land!! So we had a double take off and a double landing 🛬!! When we finally did land, everyone was extremely excited to see our families 👨‍👩‍👧👨‍👧👩‍👦👨‍👧‍👦👨‍👦👨‍👦‍👦👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👨‍👧 - we said goodbye 👋 and that was the end of our adventures.

I think we will all sleep well this weekend!!!!

Love from An emotional, exhausted (yet somehow still excited!) year 6

Final note from our teachers:

We have had a wonderful time with the children this week. They have behaved beautifully and really challenged themselves. Their resilience and determination never failed to impress us. We were also seriously impressed with their dance moves!!!

A huge thanks goes to our dedicated PSFA who raised the funds to send us to Calvert. The children will hopefully remember this experience for the rest of their lives.

Thank you so much for your support and for your trust in us to bring them back in one piece! Now, time to collapse!! 😆

Many thanks, The Staff Team - Deanna, Lou, Chris, Christine, Paula, Cat & Caitlin

🧳 Diary of the yr 6 travellers! 🧳

Thursday - 18th May 2023

Final activity day!!! As has become our normal, we started the day slowly 🐢!!! We completed the morning routine: get up, washed 🧼, dressed 👕 👖, brush our teeth 🦷 and headed to breakfast for half 8 🕣. Today’s hot brekkie consisted of: scrambled egg 🥚, baked beans, sausage 🌭, hash browns and toast 🍞. Cold options were the usual - Fruit 🍎 🍏 🍌 🍊 yoghurt and cereal 🥣. Some children 👧 👦 were exceptionally hungry 🤤 today! We have eaten well this week!!!

Before leaving breakfast, we wished Dominic a happy birthday. He told us all about his new sea life book that he had for his birthday. He was super excited for the day!

While we were chilling, another special surprise happened, Mrs Sullivan 👩🏻‍🏫 walked into the quad! We were so excited 😆 to see her and gave lots of big hugs 🤗.

After a bit of a run 🏃‍♀️ and some chill time 😎 we headed off to our first activity - archery 🏹!! Year 6 LOVED this! We played a range of games like rescue the princess 👸🏻 , holiday ☀️ and even did a good old fashioned high score round. Lots of the grown ups 🧔🏻 👩🏻 also had a go… needless to say it got competitive!!

Lunch was another delicious meal, macaroni and cheese 🧀 😋 or jacket potato 🥔 with salad 🥗 on the side. Everyone was pretty hungry by this point so we wolfed our food down. Then for dessert we had birthday cake 🎂!! The chef had made two HUGE cakes 🍰 for Dominic to share with us and the other centre users. We all sang happy birthday to him and tucked in. There were lots of chocolatey 🍫 faces.

Second activity today was abseiling and the zip wire. This was BRILLIANT 🤩! Everyone faced their fears 😧 and went down the wall. Some even went twice!!! The zip wire was really fun too. Lots of us went super fast. The instructors played a little prank on Lucie which made everyone laugh 😂. They asked her to hold onto a rope then told her to let go… and that released her on the zip wire! Lucie also found it very funny 😆.

Just time for a little chill 😎, pack our bags 🧳 and then dinner (chicken Kiev or cottage pie) before we got our fancy clothes on and took to the dance floor. 💃🕺 The disco was a huge hit! Everyone had at least one dance, with most of us partying until 9 o’clock 🕘.

Now we’re all tucked up in bed 🛌 ready to snooze the night away 😴!

We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow to tell you more about our adventures.

Sleep tight!

Love from a totally wiped out year 6! 😁😁😁

🧳 Diary of the year 6 travellers! 🧳 

Day 3 - 17.05.23

What a wonderful day we had today! 😁

The children had a slightly slower start this morning, with many of them not waking up until 8 o’clock 🕗. We did the usual wash 🧼, teeth 🦷 🪥 and change our clothes 👕 👖, then headed for breakfast. 

Today we could choose from bacon 🥓, fried egg 🍳, baked beans 🫘, hash browns and toast 🍞. There was also yoghurt and fruit 🍌 🍎 🍏 🍊 available. 

We had a bit of down time 😎 before heading towards our activities for the day. 

The first activity was horse riding 🏇. Some children were already experts at this and they were allowed to ride without a leader. There were lots of different horses 🐴 and we even got to groom them. 

We then had lunch (Jacket potato 🥔, baked beans 🫘 and cheese 🧀) before another little chill 😎 in the sunshine ☀️.

The second activity today was crate stacking! We were clipped into harnesses and worked in pairs to build a tall tower. We went as high as possible then became human wrecking balls and knocked them down! It was so much fun 🤩!

We were then lucky enough to go on the giant swing!! We were put in a harness and hoisted up to the ceiling. Then after a count down, our group leaders pulled the cord and we went flying!! Even some of the adults 👩🏻 👱🏻‍♂️ went on the swing (and they screamed the loudest!!)

In the evening, we had a swim 🏊🏻‍♀️ in the hydrotherapy pool. It was so much fun!! Then it was roast dinner 🍲 for tea with ice cream 🍨 for desert! 😋 

Our evening entertainment was a visit from Exmoor zoo. Everyone got to handle giant snails 🐌, snakes 🐍 an owlet 🦉 and even a meerkat! It was wonderful.

We headed to bed and everyone was well asleep before 10 o’clock 🕙.

Final activity day tomorrow - archery, zip line and abseiling to look forward to!!

Night night!
Love from a very tired year 6
😴😴😴😴😴

🧳 Diary of the year 6 travellers! 🧳

Day 2 - 16th May 2023

Oh my goodness! What a day! The sun ☀️ has been shining on us all day and we have had a wonderful time 😁. Our morning 🌅 started slowly with the children 👦🧒👧 waking when they were ready. Most of us were up by half past 7 🕢 but some cheeky monkeys 🙈 got up to brush their teeth at half past 5 🕠!!! They were gently guided to snooze 😴 for a bit longer!! 😂

Once we were all up it was time for a wash 🧼. We also cleaned our teeth 🪥 🦷 and chose our cool ‘threads’🎽👖 for the day (can you spot the lingo creeping in!!). We met for breakfast 🍳 at twenty five past eight and sat down at our table in the conservatory. At half eight 🕣 the hot food was served!! 😋 We had a choice of scrambled eggs 🥚, sausage 🌭, mushrooms 🍄, hash browns and toast 🍞. There was also cereal 🥣, fruit 🍏 🍎 🍌 🍊 and yoghurt. Some children chose a fruit juice 🧃 to go with their breakfast, but lots of us drank water🚰 or milk 🥛.

Once we completed some serious carb loading, we headed back to the houses 🏘️ to chill and get prepared for the day. We checked schedules, put on suncream and did the usual pre activity toilet check 🚽. Everyone met at ten to ten, ready to find out our groups. We were split into 2 groups, Croyde and Mortehoe and went off to our first activities.

Each group did the same activities, just the opposite way round! One activity was rock climbing 🧗‍♀️. Because it was a beautiful day ☀️, we spent the entire time, climbing outside 🌳. The sun shone down as we were hoisted, belayed and encouraged to try our best 👍🏻. EVERY CHILD had a go! With many of them climbing to the top of the walls. There was lots of resilience being shown (Deema Duck 🦆) as well as some fabulous teamwork (Tim and Tina Tortoise 🐢 🐢) and trust in our friends to keep us safe. Some of the grown ups even had a go!

We all went for lunch (cheese pasty and potato wedges with a choice of brownie, flapjack or marble cake for dessert) and enjoyed a bit more chill 😎 time. Lots of children chose to use the iPad 📱 for their chill time, especially those who went cycling 🚴‍♀️ first!!

Talking of cycling, this was our second activity of the day. Most children (and some adults) rode the kmx bikes around the reservoir. Some adults cycled children in the assisted bike, others followed (usually by running!!) the 3 wheel trikes and helped them with steering!!!

We then headed back to the houses 🏘️ to chill, shower 🚿 and make ourselves smell great again! This evening, we played outside 🌳 and headed for dinner at half past 6 where we had the choice of hot pot 🍲 or lasagne 🍝. Then for desert we had cheesecake 🍰 - it was delicious 😋!!

The children were offered a choice between a chill night or a movie 🎥 and the vote was fairly unanimous- chilling out it was!!! 😎 Unsurprisingly, all children were in bed and asleep a lot quicker tonight - no half one chat sessions here!! 🥱 😴

We are so excited for tomorrow & can’t wait to see what it will bring!

See you soon!

Lots of love from Year 6 😁

🧳 Diary of the year 6 travellers!! 🧳 
Day 1 - Monday

Well - here we go! It’s another year 6 residential, with a fabulous bunch of children! 👧 👦 

We started the day with a movie 🎥 in school while the teachers helped us check our bags - we watched the new Space Jam movie - Bugs Bunny 🐰 made us laugh! 😂 

At 10:45 we got to choose ANY snack we wanted - what a treat!! ❤️ Lots of yummy crisps, yoghurts and chocolates being munched 😋 before a run 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ around the playground to burn off some energy!

At 11.15 (after a quick loo break 😁) we gathered in the hall to get our hats 🧢, sunflower lanyards 🌻 and suitcases 🧳 ready to go to the airport ✈️.

Mrs Sullivan 👩🏻‍🏫 went ahead to meet us there. We got off the buses 🚌 and took our cases to check in. The adults helped us get our tickets 🎫 and we watched the bags leave on the conveyor belt. It was all VERY exciting! 😆

We waved goodbye 👋 to Mrs Sullivan 👩🏻‍🏫 and headed through security 👮‍♀️👮👮‍♂️. Some people had to go through the scanner and poor Christine had to empty the entire medical bag!! 🚑

When we got to departures, we filled our water bottles🚰 and waited to board the plane ✈️. This is where the excitement really hit in!!

We took off ✈️ at around 12.55 but suddenly, the pilot 👨‍✈️ told us we had to turn back! Some birds 🐦 had tried to grab a lift on the wing of the plane so an engineer 👷‍♀️ had to check it was ok👌🏻. Luckily, the birds 🐦 were ok, as was the plane ✈️ so we could leave again! So exciting to do a double take off on our first school residential!

We landed in Bristol airport and walked to get our suitcases 🧳. The belt was loud and the airport was busy but we were amazing, following all the adults and making great choices! 👍🏻 

Once we had our bags, it was time to get the bus 🚌. Our bus was HUGE!!! We could all have individual seats 💺  if we wanted! It was nice and cool ❄️ and the seats were very comfy… some of us even grabbed a snooze 😴!

We had a lovely bus driver who pointed out fun things on our journey, like wind turbines and our next stop - McDonalds 🍟!! 

We had just enough time for a quick burger 🍔 or chicken nuggets 🍗 and obviously had to collect the all important free toy 🧸!! Then it was back to the bus for the final leg of the journey.

We arrived at Calvert at around 6.30pm and went straight for dinner. Tonight’s choice was chilli con carne 🍛 or carbonara 🍝. We then had chocolate brownie for dessert 😋!!

Finally, we had a wander around the centre, getting a chance to play on the swings and a short walk through the nature area 🌳. We all bundled to bed 🛌, and despite some big talk (!) pretty much everyone was fast asleep by around half ten 🕥.

Tomorrow the real adventure begins - we can’t wait to share all our stories with you!

Good night 😴 
Love from a very sleepy 🥱 year 6!
😁

Calvert Residential Information evening

Tuesday 7th February at 6pm in the Hall

This year, our year 6 students had the privilege of attending an on-island residential at Camp de Rêves. 

We would like to say a big thank you to all companies and people who helped us take the children on residential this year through donations, discounts or delicious food.

Our sponsors included (but are not limited to):

• Le Rondin PSFA
• Canaccord Financial
• Camp de Rêves
• Taste of India
• Perelle Butchers
• The New Manor Hotel

Below you will find a copy of the diary year 6 kept of their experiences and some photos from our week of adventures.

We look forward to what next year will bring!

Wow! What a busy time we’ve had already!!

The children arrived this morning with an amazing amount of luggage. Everyone was incredibly excited. We left our luggage in the hall and went to our classrooms for a super chill morning. Chris helped us choose the right size wetsuits and Cathy gave us our matching hats 🧢 Some people helped Cathy make our fillings and prep jacket potatoes 🥔 for our dinner tonight. We also made jelly for our desert!🍦 We had snack as normal and then watched sing in class. After lunch we got our things ready to head to the beach 🏖

We arrived at L’Eree beach at around 2pm and had so much fun; digging holes 🕳, building sandcastles 🏰, playing football ⚽️ or tennis 🎾 and paddling in the sea 🌊! We then started the walk up to the campsite 🏕. Some of us got a lift with Caitlin or Christine but 5 brave students walked all the way!! We were all tired 😴!

However, the fun wasn’t over!!

Then we got a quick snack and piled into our tents ⛺️. Everyone was really excited to see their bedrooms! We settled in then had a play on the playground and pirate ship 🏴‍☠️. We had a delicious dinner 🍲, delivered by Miss King, and went for a post dinner walk through the lanes. The flowers 💐 and views were beautiful 😍!

When we arrived back, we cooked s’mores on the campfire 🔥. They were delicious 😋!

Finally we got tucked into our tents and almost everyone was in bed 🛌 by 9pm! Already tired out 🥱!! We can’t wait to share our adventures with you tomorrow!

Sleep tight, Love from year 6.

Well… if we thought day one was busy… day two was MAD 🤪!!

We started off with a bit of a slow morning, lots of children slept 😴 really well last night. We got up, showered 🧼, brushed our teeth 🦷 and headed over for breakfast at the fire pit 🔥. This morning we had cereal 🥣, yoghurt and fruit 🍎 🍌🍇🍊. We also had apple juice 🧃 and orange juice 🥤. Then we had our first big job, it was time to make our lunches 🥪. Here was what we had to do…

- We buttered our bread 🍞

- We chose our fillings: 🍖🧀🥚🐟

- We made our sandwich 🥪

- We chose our fruit: 🍎🍏🍌🍇🍊🥝

- We picked our yoghurt and cheese string.

- We chose one snack and crisps.

- We chose our drink.

It was then time for us to walk 🚶‍♀️🚶 down to L’Eree beach 🏖 for another play in the sand. We dug so many holes 🕳 today, and did some beach art 🖼. Tomorrow, we might try a mandala. Watch this space… Then it was time for our tasty lunch 🥪. The children all sat on the picnic blankets under the gazebo but the adults had to hold it down. The wind 💨 was so strong it nearly blew away!! It was very funny! 😂

Our next activity was another short walk🚶‍♀️🚶 to Lihou headland. Everyone was so sensible on the road and took lots of care when walking. We split into two groups: Ross, Rachel, Chris and Cathy went with 11 children to see the causeway 🪨 and explore the shoreline 🌊. Christine, Caitlin and Lydia took 10 children to explore the batterie. We had a go at sitting on the cannons and then rolled down the hill. It made us laugh when Caitlin tried to catch us.

Our next adventure was at Oatlands for mini-golf ⛳️. We split into our tent ⛺️ groups and played for about an hour. Because we scored as a whole team, everybody was a winner! 🏆🥇 We had just enough time for a sneaky ice-cream 🍦 (Or a slushie🥤 for those who couldn’t eat ice-cream) before we had to jump on the bus 🚌 back to camp 🏕. When we got back, we had half an hour to sort our clothes and have a chill. Some people even fell asleep 💤!!! Luckily, our dinner arrived early and we munched down delicious spaghetti bolognaise 🍝 with cheese 🧀 and a side of crunchy garlic bread 🥖. Lots of children had two helpings, some children (and grown ups!) had THREE!!!

We had just enough time to clean 🧽 our tables and a play in the playground 🛝 before the rain 🌧 came down. So it was back to our tents ⛺️ for some chilax-ing! L

ots of children chose an earlier bedtime tonight and hopefully we will all sleep 😴 well!!

Sleep tight! Love from, Year 6!!

Well, it’s official, year 6 are tired 😴😂

Today was another busy day! Slightly slower start with another delicious breakfast. Today we had some super sweet pineapple 🍍 and kiwi 🥝 alongside our cereal 🥣, grapes 🍇, apples 🍎 🍏 and bananas 🍌.

Then we packed our lunches - two wraps 🌯 (maximum one Nutella 🍫 and one healthy), crisps, fruits, cheesestring🧀 and rice crispy squares as a treat! 😋 It was then time to hit the beach 🏝 again.

We walked to L’Eree (already in our bathers 🩳🩱) and lots of children went down to swim in the sea 🌊. It was full of seaweed but so much fun! We had a splashing 💦 fight and then it was time to soak the teachers 👩🏻‍🏫 👨🏻‍🏫! Other children stayed at the top of the beach 🏝, building sand castles 🏰 and digging even MORE holes 🕳!! It’s lucky the tide comes in and out or L’Eree beach would be a dangerous place to walk after this week!

It was then time for a quick bus 🚌 journey to Sausmarez park 🌳 where we ate our lunch. Lots of children tried either cucumber wedges 🥒 or tomato chunks 🍅 today ( Thanks Mrs S for chopping them!!) . We then had just enough time to go to the shop 🏬 to spend some of our pocket money 💰. Some children chose sweets 🍬, others chose a toy 🧸. Everyone was happy 😊!

Fast forward a few hours (including showers 🚿 iPad time📱 and a quick play on the pirate ship 🏴‍☠️ ) and we were ready for our dinner. Christine led us to the Taste of India restaurant. All the children were fascinated 😮 by the decor in the restaurant. We talked about Indian music 🇮🇳 🎶 , food 🥘 and art 🖼. We then tucked into a huge feast!!! 😋

⭐️ Star moment today was the amount of different foods that everyone tried. We had so many new experiences for our taste buds! 👅 ⭐️

Our favourite foods were: - Pakoras 🧅 - naan bread 🫓 - poppadoms - Afgahni Chicken Korma 🥘 - pilau rice 🍚 Everyone was shattered after dinner so we walked 🚶‍♀️🚶back to camp 🏕 and had a very quiet 🤐 end to the day with almost all children fast asleep 😴 by 10pm.

Everyone is having a ✨ fabulous ✨ time. We can’t believe we only have two days left… time really flies when you are having fun!!

Sleep well, Lots of love from A very sleepy year 6! 😊

So we have come to the end of our week!!

We have had so much fun and our last day was no exception. We started the morning 🌅 by getting up a little later - can you tell we are tired 😴 ?! Breakfast outdoors was another hit - cereals 🥣, yoghurt and more fruit: 🍏🍎🍊🍇🍌🍍🥝. We then made our sandwiches and packed our lunch 🥗. Today we had jelly in our lunch as a treat! It was then off to the beach 🏝- today’s adventures were at Portelet beach. The sun ☀️ was shining and there was very little wind 💨 today - it really felt like summer!

We split into two groups - one group went walking 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ with Ross, Christine, Cathy and Rachel. They went through the forest 🌳 towards the Fairy Ring. The children were enjoying nature 🦋🌍 and even saw some seals 🦭! The second group went paddle boarding with Caitlin, Chris, Lydia and some instructors from Outdoor Guernsey. Everyone LOVED 🥰 this. We jumped off the paddle boards and some children were thrown into the water 🌊. Then it was time for lunch 🥗 and a big swap round. Everyone was so excited to do their next task!

After we swapped, we bused 🚌 back to camp 🏕 and showered 🚿. It was then time for our pizza 🍕- everyone was ravenous!! We stuffed our faces and then jumped into pjs for our movie 🎥 🍿 night. We watched the BFG before tumbling into bed 🛌. Everyone slept soundly! 😴 💤

This morning, the children were so grateful to have a special BBQ breakfast cooked by Mrs Sullivan. We had sausauge baguettes donated by Jason at Perelle Butchers... They were stunning!! The children then packed their bags 🧳 and helped to tidy up 🧹 the tents ⛺️. It was then a bus back to school 🏫 ready for us to be picked up at half past 12 🕜. We can’t wait to see you all! Lots of love, Year 6!

A message from our teachers:

This week has been crazy, incredible, wonderful and exhausting in equal measures. All the children have been fantastic representatives for the school and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of their residential. We have had a fantastic time and they have been such a delight to further get to know them through this week. We would also like to say a big thank you to all companies and people who have helped us get here and experience so many wonderful things such as (but not limited to): Le Rondin PTFA, Canaccord Financial, Camp de Rêves, Outdoor Guernsey, Taste of India, Perelle Butchers, The New Manor Hotel and many more. Finally, a sneaky shout out and huge thanks to all the staff who have helped and stayed over this week. It wouldn’t have been the same without them. We hope that they have a fabulous rest this weekend (as will we!) and we will see them bright and early on Monday morning. ☺️☺️

Many thanks, The Year 6 residential team.