ADVENTURE WEEK At St Dunstan’s, we believe that developing character in students is vitally important to creating a framework for academic success. Our vision is that we inspire, nurture and challenge young people to develop the knowledge, skills and interests that shape their educational journey, character and aspirations. We have a deliberately broad co-curricular programme to ensure that is the case, and no trip embodies this attitude more than Adventure Week. The aim of the week is to further and deliberately enrich our values within our student body through a wide range of exciting and challenging outdoor-based activities. For Year 7, it was their first taste of Adventure Week, and they could not have asked for a better back drop than the beautiful north Somerset village of Churchill set in the stunning Mendip Hills. The students worked their way through an action-packed line-up of activities, even including skiing! As a result of Covid restrictions, the Ministry of Defence base in Folkestone, which usually hosts the Year 8 Adventure Week, was unable to facilitate us this year. However, undeterred, we decided to bring the bootcamp experience to St Dunstan’s. Through a combination of day trips and on-site activities delivered by external providers, the students experienced a carousel of options ranging from water sports to archery, with a taste of army/navy based activities throughout, as well as an overnight camping experience. We managed to deliver a week of events that the students not only enjoyed but benefited from enormously after a year away from their peers.
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