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EDITION 56 14th June 2019
The weekly newsletter for the Holyport College family
Year 9 Bronze DofE
55 Year 9 students took part in their first Duke of Edinburgh's Award expedition last weekend completing the practice for their Bronze Award. The expedition requires them to be self sufficient for 2 days, carrying all their clothes, food, cooking equipment and tents. Judging by the singing on the coach on the way to the start point the students weren’t at all phased by the challenges they were about to face! With many of the students having never walked 15km with a large backpack there were many tired bodies on Saturday evening, they seemed to re-energise though after they’d set up camp and cooked their dinner! Sunday morning dawned very early, with many of the campers keen to get up to eat their pancakes, make hot chocolate and sing before 5am!! By the time they reached the finish point on Sunday much of this energy had thankfully been used so that even the ice lollies the staff gave them didn’t prevent the majority of them falling asleep on the coach on the way home! To see more photos from the weekend check out @HolyportHum Thank you to Mrs Belbin, Mrs Day, Miss Howard and Miss Lunney for giving up their weekends to enable the students to complete their expedition and camp.
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