Hooke Court - September 2010
News from the first ever Longwell Green Year 5 residential at Hooke Court
We’re off and running. Day 1 saw the children involved in a series of team-building challenges set to develop their communication skills and co-operative skills and test their resilience and desire to succeed. The children worked together to get their team across a crocopig and alligacow infested swamp and worked hard to use guttering and their initiative to transport a cricket ball to a designated target. As the afternoon wore on the children learned the best way to utilise the skills of their team. Other challenges managed to develop their non-verbal communication skills although the children admitted this was the most difficult part of the afternoon.
It was brilliant to see the children use the skills they’d developed in the afternoon to work together during the Night Line activity. The children were blindfolded and asked to trust each other and lead their team around a series of obstacles by carefully passing on messages to those behind them about direction and hazards on the floor. It was great to see both teams skilfully manoeuvre their way around the final challenge following a rope tied amongst the trees.
It’s the River walk on Thursday, a 5 mile walk tracing the river around the beautiful Dorset countryside. Let’s hope the children have a good night’s sleep and have the energy to see the task through and learn everything they’ll need to know about rivers.
Everyone is loving being at Hooke Court and having a great time, making new friends, developing existing friendships and leaning important lessons along the way.
Hooke Tweets
As with year 6 at Stone Farm we thought we’d challenge the children to sum up their day in a tweet style bulletin. Here is a selection.
Today was great. We went on a river study. Of course all the water was in my wellies. We walked up and down hills. We went into the river and my boots got stuck! We measured the current.
Scott C5
Today was an action packed day. We walked around the river and across the countryside. We got very muddy and the experiments were really fun.
Max C5
Today was an amazing day. We all investigated different rivers. We all went into a river because we were measuring the size of the river and the speed of the river by dropping a pine cone into water.
George B C5
Today I woke thinking it was amazing. We followed a river and measured the depth and how fast it was going. We went from Hooke to Kingcombe.
Toby C5
Today was very fun packed day. We did a river walk for five miles, it was really cool because we walked in the river. Some water went in my welly boot.
Khadisha C5
Today was the best day ever. We went on a river walk and did lots of experiments in the water. We were measuring the velocity of the river.
Georgia C5
It was a long day today, I am very tired now. We just did a river walk for 5 miles across hills and land. Tomorrow is shelter building I bet it’s going to be amazing.
Abigail F5
It was a wonderful day at Hooke Court. We went on the biggest walk of my life. It was so fun.
Jade F5
Today was an amzing day. We went on a river study. We started at a tributary of the river Hooke and then when we got further we got in. When we got back we were exhausted.
Nathan F5
Today we went on a river study. We walked in puddles and streams on the way to River Hooke. We ran across many fields. It was a long way back.
Matthew B F5
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