Up, up and away!!!!!!!

...and then the motor stopped!!!!

The boat that rocks!

One or two nervous faces!

More riverside action!

Daisy has that sinking feeling!

Lunchtime and beautiful sun!

Sandwiches, fruit and 4 square- usual lunchtime there then!

Life on the ocean waves! (Well, Medway!)

Confusion as all 9 members of the group attempt to get into the same boat!

Out on the water.

I hope they all brought their towels!

A day on the water.

Raft Building....Not entirely sure it will float!

Fun and Games

Always time for Twister!

More activities on the top field.

Whatever they caught, Zaynab is struggling to get it through the gate!

Archery lessons.

Trying to catch tonight's dinner, take aim guys!

Looks like the good weather is set to continue.

And so begins another beautiful day! Mr Bennett has just started the beach walking club.

I don't want to speak too soon but.......

It's gone very, very quiet! I think they're all asleep, or at least doing a very good job of pretending to be!
I have known previous residential trips where children are still awake at 2am!!

Back from the evening hike!

After someone leaves their trainers in the dorm, everyone decides to sleep in the lounge!!!!!!!!!

They're not playing for money........honest!

Mrs Goble runs the evening Card School!

Could be the Med!

What a lovely evening! Wish you were here!

A (very) brief breather!

Relaxing in the lounge after a very busy day, and they haven't done the 6 mile walk yet!!!!

Not sure this is going to plan!

Not sure how effective this shelter would be!

Ryan's on BBQ duty!

All we need is some boyscouts, and a big bag of marshmallows!

Just before it collapsed....

Too many in this one perhaps?

Yet more shelters!

More headroom in this one!

More shelter building!

Getting comfy!

Timber?

Kalon tries to pull down a tree! There's gotta be an easier way!!!

Shelter building.

Slowly it dawns what we meant when described the 'luxury accomodation'!

Little help!

Looks like Ekam has caught a big fish!

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If you go down to woods today.......

The plan is to keep them really busy on day 1, then they'll sleep well!!!

Gotta keep their strength up!

All sitting down to a nice lunch. All arrived safely and having fun already.

Ducks and Bricks!

Straight into the activites! Looks like it's going to be great weather all week.

And they're off!

Look how fresh faced and eager thay all look, maybe we should take a similar photo at the end of the week when they're all exhausted! I'm talking about the staff of course!

Here begins the journey!

Welcome to this year's Residential Blog, this is the 3rd year we have operated a blog to enable you to keep up with what your children are up to.
Please check back regularly as photos and posts will regularly be added, please also feel free to leave lots of comments, but bear in mind that Internet access is limited at Arethusa so comments will not always be passed on.
Enjoy looking at the blog, and enjoy the peace and quiet at home!