Blog by Tag: Geography

For our final day we started by returning to the woods to test our orienteering skills. After that we watched how to light a fire using flint and lock. We then toasted marshmallows to enjoy some delicious smores.

We returned to the centre to create pottery owls which the children will get when…

Following our evening meal, the children headed back to the barn to take part in a bench ball tournament. It was extremely close and played in good spirit with lots of encouragement from everyone.

After that, we enjoyed a hot chocolate and biscuit. As you can see from the pictures, some of the…

Following lunch, we headed back into the woods for abseiling. The children  were incredibly brave and the instructors were ever so impressed at how well the children listened carefully to instructions.

We also completed archery in the barn. It was great to see how much the children improved…

After a delicious breakfast we split into our groups. The first activities of the day were the climbing tower, low ropes course and night lining.

The children were fantastic at climbing and it was brilliant to see their improvement in such a short amount of time.

Day 1 at CHET and it has certainly been a busy one. After arriving and enjoying our lunches, we headed into the woods to tackle the orienteering course. The children completed a range of obstacles and it was wonderful to see so many of them conquer their fear of heights by taking part on the zip…

Day 3 and the final day at CHET for Miss Gray's class. We started off walking back into the woods and doing bushcraft, which involved learning how to light a fire from flint and lock and then toasting marshmallows on a fire to make smores! 

We then headed back to the centre to complete some…

Day 2 greeted us with another crisp Autumnal morning and the sun started to shine through as we headed out after breakfast to our first activities of the day - the climbing tower and the low ropes course and night lining. The children were superstars at climbing and overcoming their fear of…

To begin our Geography topic the children walked to Tesco in groups and looked in the fruit aisle to investigate where different fruits have come from.

Day 1 at CHET and the weather could not have been better! We have seen CHET in all of it's late autumnal glory! The children have been amazing, getting stuck straight into all of the activities on the low ropes course this afternoon after making their beds before lunch (always the most tricky…

This Monday we were lucky to take part in a class orienteering activity.  
The children were split into groups and tasked with finding various animals around the site.  
The weather was kind and we all had a great time searching for the animals and remembering them.  
Esme won our kindest…

Year 1 Orienteering Outdoors
 

Year 1 had a wonderful time outdoors looking for different animals, numbers and letters around the school. 

Year 1 Geography- Natural and Manmade Objects

The children sorted the different objects into manmade and natural objects. We went on a walk around the school looking for more objects.