Annie's Delaware School Camp

On the 3rd of March, my class (6SJ) and I went to Delaware Outdoor Education Centre. When we arrived we looked at our dormitories and unpacked our things. I shared a dorm with Imogen, Charlotte, Freja, Kira and Chloe. Then we went into the common room and ate our lunch.

Soon after that we went outside to do some activities. Our class split into two groups, A and B. I was in group B so we went up to the field next to the accommodation to do some mountain biking. It was a moderately flat field with a slight descent. We had to do a range of challenges from jumps and ramps to slaloms. At the end we had to build a course that we would be timed on. We had to do some bits for Daniel, who is disabled only in his legs and rides a trike, as he can't manoeuvre a bicycle. In the timed race I came third, Lewis came second and Imogen came first!

At night time we had dinner, consisting of pastries, chips and lots of salad. For dessert we had cake and ice cream. Then we went out onto the spooky darkness of the field and played hide and seek in the dark, which was great fun! After that we had hot chocolate, biscuits and we played a game of bingo, because Mr Bungee used to run bingo nights before he became a teacher's assistant. Finally, we went to bed.

The next morning we had a yummy breakfast (this is what you could have) of cereal then sausages, eggs, toast, chips and baked beans. One of the instructors came in as we were assembling in the common room and told us we were going to Kit Hill which was about 10-20 minutes away. We drove there then Dave took my group rock climbing while Steve took group A canoeing on the freezing cold lake. Rock climbing was really fun but scary and I hated the abseiling as I couldn't lift my legs up high enough. We ate our lunch then swapped activities. Canoeing was really fun and we did a lot of games. I was sharing a boat with Chloe and Mrs Lambden, another TA (teacher's assistant.) My canoeing team was called 'Annie's Angels' - a name Mrs Lambden thought up.

We went back to Delaware after canoeing and had a delicious dinner of pizza, noodles, salad and, for dessert chocolate tiffins and strawberry mousse. We had a talent show which I came second in, doing a questions and answers on Australia show. We also had a game of bingo and a mini disco.

We woke up the next morning, had breakfast and my group went out to do archery. Archery was really fun and I learnt a few new things as well. I had already done archery and canoeing at Kianniny, a school camp in Australia, last year.

We ate our lunch in the picnic area then packed up and went back to school. We spent the rest of the afternoon at school, playing around in the playground. Eventually it was home time and we all went back home, feeling very exhausted.