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KINGSWOOD PREP IN FOCUS 2020-21 | BOARDING
YEAR 6 RESIDENTIAL ACTIVITIES As the updated guidance for schools was announced over the Easter holiday, I was excited to see that residentials were allowed, and even though we would need to go a day later than planned, the trip to Pembrokeshire would be back on.
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updated the Firefly Pages and was ready to go when the email that no outdoor centre wants to send landed in my inbox. Sealyham was closing, permanently. There was no chance of booking a place elsewhere and it simply was not possible to not have a residential of some sort. It was quickly agreed that an activity week would work, maybe even camping on the schools grounds. Five days full of activities including Sailing, Stand-Up-Paddle-boarding, Horse Riding, Mission impossible, Frisbee Golf, Axe Throwing, Adventure
Challenge, Climbing and Archery were organised, with camping on the Upper to finish off the week. The children were truly amazing during the week and, despite not being the residential we had all hoped for, it was an excellent week as you can see from the accounts written by the children. Thank you to all the staff who helped on the week and to all the families whose tents were borrowed for the camping.
Mr Murphy and the Year 6 Team
...despite not being the residential we had all hoped for, it was an excellent week...
