Residential Trip

To the New Forest

Meaning of life Game

Two tribes share the meaning of life (a pen) between each other. The gap between the tribes gets bigger every time the pen is passed.

Meaning of life Game

This is an attempt for the record length the meaning of life has been passed to between the opposite tribes. On this attempt we failed but we beat the record a few tries later.

Stepping Stone Game

The object of the game is to get everyone from one point to another whilst only stepping on the stones. There are less amount of stones than people. If no one is touching a stone then it gets taken away.

Cooking

These are the ingredients for the Chinese food we made during the first night of the trip. We made chicken chow mein, beef in black bean sauce and sweet and sour chicken. We each took it in turns to cook, wash up and clean.

Wall Climbing

The wall climbing instructor tom, is securing Ross’ harness ready for him to climb the wall

Wall Climbing

The group watching someone climbing the wall and helping by tightening the rope

Crate Stacking

Harness being secured ready for crate stacking.

Crate Stacking

Ross and Cara struggling on top of the crates. This game involves standing on crates and keeping adding them to see how high you can get before the crates topple over

Crates Stacking

Bradley and Rachel falling off their crate stack, sending it crashing to the ground.

First Aid

Corrina practicing bandaging Chris. The red tape across Chris’ face represents a cut.

First Aid

Steph and Ross showing off their new bandages

Camp Fire

Bradley and Steph roasting marshmallows by the fire we made earlier. They then put the roasted marshmallows between two chocolate biscuits to make it into smores

Egg Game

The object of the game is to get an egg from one point to another without it cracking. By only using guttering and bamboo sticks.

Egg Game

A practice run through using a ping pong ball, before attempting with the real egg. The bamboo stick is used to control the speed of the ball.

Egg

This is Jamie the egg that got cracked during the egg game. But there was a lot of replacements.

Archery

Ross aiming the arrow at the target.

Ready, Aim, Fire

Archery

Game to pop each balloon on the target

Archery

The whole gang with their bows

Assault Course

Going around the assault course obstacles as a team helping everyone along the obstacles

Rocket

The last activity of the trip sending the surviving egg vlad up into the air. Unfortunately he came back down and cracked

The Group

A whole group photo including Tom the wall climbing instructor and vlad the egg strapped into his rocket before he crashed