Year 4 Stubbington Residential
On Wednesday 13th November, the Year 4's set off for their residential to Stubbington Study Centre for two nights. Our first activity before lunch was Earthquake, the group was split into two teams and given life-saving equipment including ladders, a first aid kit, food and water, a blanket and a rescue dog. The children had to use teamwork and resilience to complete the course without touching the floor or losing their items. Only a few wet feet after the water swing and it was time for lunch in the snuffle hole. After lunch the children had some time to unpack and familarise themselves with the centre before some free time meeting the other schools in the adventure playground and football pitch. We had a wildlife talk in the evening before supper and bed. Thursday morning, after a fabulous cooked breakfast we set out into the conservation area to find out why trees are important part of our ecosystem, the children used their mapping skills. Thursday evening the children discovered pirates had stolen treasure from the Stubbington Office and had to use their teamwork and investigation skills to solve the mystery, the children loved running around the centre finding all the missing pirates and after a trial held in the Snuffle Hole the guilty party was named. Before bed the children went to the Hyde and were lucky enough to watch a family of badgers and some foxes tucking into their supper, it was a fantastic way to end our day.
After packing our bags on Friday morning and filling themselves up with a cooked breakfast we headed out to complete our last activity. A teamwork activity saw them working in groups of four walking planks along the field, lots of different strategies were used and they worked brilliantly together. Lastly, the children were given black out googles and followed a roped activity climbing under nets and through tunnels, it was great fun and the children were great at supporting each other.
Overall, the children described the residential as fabulous, fantastic, amazing and confidence building.
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