Year 6 Residential - Tower Wood

Year 6 arrived safely as they started their week long residential at Tower Wood in the Lake District.

The children took part in many activities:-

• Climbing, abseiling, undertaking challenges on the high ropes and jumping into Lake Windermere.
• Exploring a cave system and quarry, as well as being an adventure into the rocks, the journey helped them learn about the mining history of the Lake District and the local environment - whilst finishing the day off kayaking in a wonderful mountain tarn.
• Another fantastic adventure was they explored a river through ghyll scrambling looking at different features of a river such as water falls and plunge pools - jumping in them certainly brings learning to life!
• A full adventure day was undertaken - a journey that the children had planned back in school. The journey took them over a local fell and down to end of Lake Windermere giving the children an opportunity to canoe back to Tower Wood. They certainly put their navigation skills to good use! 

The evenings were just as busy as they explored the grounds of Tower Wood through orienteering, played a searching game 'Headhunters', as well as playing hide and seek. The children enjoyed skimming stones from the beach, watching the sun go down at night over the amazing beach and much more.

Finally, on the last night the children had an amazing camp fire in the evening before enjoying the last sunset over Windermere.

All the children had a wonderful time showing amazing attitudes and big smiles in their approach to everything!