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Activities week

Fresh too were memories of activities
weeks in late-June. This week involves
all Senior School pupils, with snapshots
of three trips, involving S2 and S3 pupils,
highlighted below, as well as a ‘best of the
rest’ photo section to the right. The S5
trip to Kenya, also taking place in activities
week, is featured opposite.
S1 sailors at Port Edgar S3 on John Muir Trust duties

S3 in the S3 in Cornwall

Azores A workshop on climate at the Eden
Project was followed by free time
The weather was sunny and hot –
perfect for our walk around Setes to further explore the tropical and
Mediterranean themed domes. In the
S2 in the Cidades, another stunning caldera. afternoon we enjoyed some thrilling
We stopped off at a lava field, saw
geographical coastal land forms, such ‘hang loose’ adventures – a giant
Cairngorms as stacks and stumps, and when gravity swing that took us out over

we got to Ponta Delgada we made the quarry’s edge and ‘Big Air’ jumping
The smell of smoke gave them our way to the lava tubes which out of an eight-metre building onto
away. Nestled in the woods of the are the longest on Sao Miguel. This a large inflated mat. A ride on the
Cairngorms, the campers were busy: a geological feature was amazing to skywire was next – a 70-metre high
fire was being stoked, wood was being see as there were layers of rock and zipline, right across the quarry on
collected, dens were being built. Later tiny stalactites made of hardened which speeds of 50mph have been
that evening, the bushcraft group lava. To cool down after the long, hot recorded. Just as well we had a light
– their bellies full from food cooked lunch! Later that evening we had
over the fire, including fish caught that day we had fun in the outdoor pool a private guided tour of the Eden
day – laid out their sleeping bags in in Ponta Delgada. domes to experience them without
rudimentary wooden shelters before Helen Shepherd and the public – magical!
falling asleep. The forest fell silent. Aaron Hunt (S4)
Constance Soutar (S4)
Mr Jonny Muir

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