We have had a super day with 6D on residential. The weather is glorious but not too oppressive as it is cool in the shade of the gorge (or in a cave).
After an hour’s drive, we arrived at Coldstone Cut on Greenhow Hill. This amazing bit of public art overlooks a quarry and has lots of great views and interesting information boards. We learnt about lime kilns, the local geology and 16 points of the compass.
We arrived at glorious How Stean Gorge and saw our tents. The children (left) and Mr Harris (right) were perfectly happy with their tents. Our female staff, for some reason, were not happy.
After a threat of a strike (another one!), the ladies got an upgrade very nearby!
In the afternoon we split into 3 groups for our first activity.
Group 1:
| Brodie |
| Jas |
| Parminder |
| Alfie |
| Aaryan |
| Jasleen |
| Amrit |
| Sophia |
| Mason |
| Emily |
This group did the Via Ferrata course this afternoon. Lots of the children really pushed themselves and were encouraging each other. Emily was like ‘spiderman’ and Brodie confidently led the group. Jasleen was also impressively confident.
Group 2:
| Joe |
| Ella |
| Cassydy |
| Arthur |
| Holly |
| Jude |
| Sabeeka |
| Mani |
| Jenna |
Group 2 went caving. This was a bit more challenging than the Y5 caving, with more glacial mud and less water. There were some really tight sections in caves 2 and 3. Everyone did the first two caves, and 5 of the 9 did the final very tight cave. All of the group did really well and seemed to enjoy it. We learnt a bit more about geology, especially the prevalence of chert (a dark sedimentary rock from algae) amongst the limestone.
