Leadership & Teamwork

We then had a campfire and made s'mores

The following morning we undertook command tasks. The favourite being moving radioactive isotopes, over a river of lava with ropes!

Matt Thomas

Year7

Year6

We arrived at the Plas Dolygaer Centre in Bannau Brycheiniog (Formerly known as the Brecon Beacons) National Park . .After stretching our legs we set off on a woodland walk and to see waterfalls It was then that the Year 6s were presented with their first challengeto walk along a 1 km pitch black railway tunnel with only a stick along the wall to guide them.

The following day, we did a circuit around Pen-y-Fan. This turned out to be a 12 mile walk which every single one of the group completed without complaint. Some of the group enjoyed talking to the exhausted soldiers on exercise along the way. One of our pupils said, ‘I like your gun mate’, to which he replied, ‘Thank you very much.’

That evening was taken up with team building games which encouraged leaderships and cooperation

When I went on the trip, I enjoyed it so much that I loved everything! On the first day, we went scrambling through hundreds of rocks and Dylan got stuck. It made everyone laugh. The 12 or 14 mile walk made my feet hurt a lot but everyone was super excited. We also went on a boat through some flooded tunnels. This experience was awesome. The cave we went to was called The Devil's Arse. This was because when it rained it would make rude noises - I personally thought that this was hilarious! After the caves we went into the gift shop where I bought mint choc chip ice cream.

I was concerned about some of the activities because I had never done them before but after I had done it I thought it was really fun.

Joe Watkins

Both Year 6 and 7 groups had the same instructor who has worked with Matt Thomas for many years.

He said that the children from DH are the most robust and physically fit of all the schools he has worked with