Our first day of activities! We started off with breakfast options of bacon, veggie sausages, hash browns and tomatoes (or cereal) (or a mountain of toast), before heading off to our morning activities.

Both Lydiard groups spent the morning going on the giant swing and then in a fencing session (though not necessarily in that order). We had some amazing poses on the swing and lots of children pushing themselves even further than they were expecting – some staff were pushed out of their comfort zone as well! Fencing was very exciting (real fencing foils!) and the children were able to showcase lots of their talent from last term in a new and interesting way. Plus they got a chance to pose in the fancy fencing gear…

For lunch, we had a choice between a sausage roll (excellent), sheperd’s pasty (excellent) or a vegetarian pie (excellent). It gave us just the energy we needed for our afternoon’s activities!

In the afternoon, our two groups went on the vertical challenge and had a go at orienteering. We had lots of children, across both groups, reach the top of the vertical challenge, a difficult climb across four sets of apparatus. Some children shot up so quickly we weren’t even sure that they’d been on! Orienteering is always fun, and a wonderful opportunity to explore the PGL centre – several times if you are unlucky enough to be in a group with Mrs Tidy…

For dinner, we had a choice between lasagne (excellent) and a vegetarian alu gobi (also excellent) with chips and apple crumble for desert (although apparently I’m strange for not liking custard…).

Our evening activity was Ambush, which is essentially a group game of hide and seek in the dark. One team was particularly stealthy and disciplined and one team had Mr George frantically shushing people while hiding in a ditch – my favourite activity of the week! We ended our day with nominations and then quick showers before heading to bed, looking forward to tomorrow’s activities.

Mr George