DIXIT
EDITION 53 17th May 2019
The weekly newsletter for the Holyport College family
Silver Duke of Edinburgh expedition Thirty six Year 10 students headed out on their practise Silver DofE expedition on Thursday with their bags packed with everything they should need to survive for camping 3 nights! The pouring rain on the motorway as we headed towards the Chiltern Hills should have warned us of what was to come! From boiling sunshine, to strong winds, to pouring and even hail we notched up almost a full house of British weather! Saturday night through to Sunday morning really did test us all though as the temperature dropped below zero and covered our tents and the ground in frost...brrr! Despite all this we returned safely back to College Sunday afternoon with all the students having successfully completed their practise & survived to tell the tale!
Year 10’s Zsófia and Natasha write: “When Mrs Day asked us to write this article for Dixit, we were stretched out soaking up the sunshine on the quad, drained from the past weekend. I think this pretty much sums up our feelings about DofE! When we arrived the rain had it in for us and the wind ushered us into the barn, at that moment “Town Farm” didn’t seem like the most inviting place. As we rushed to put up our tents, the rain came to an end and the camp already seemed like a nicer place to be. We quickly changed our opinion when the hail started punching against the tent and kept us shivering in our sleeping bags all night!
It was probably the adrenaline (or most likely the sunlight) that had us up at 4 AM. Toby- our instructor - quickly got us to our feet and had us walking up an almost vertical hill. As he let us go, we were soon to realise that our time-management wasn’t the best as the team that left 1 hour after us, caught up within 10 minutes! With very little energy left we resorted to eating Zak’s Kendal Mint Cake after which we became so hyper that we ran to camp! @holyportcollege
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