St Amands Yenworthy 2008

Thursday risky business

2008-04-17T10:49:00.000-07:00

All groups in grounds today with a series of activities known collectively as Risky Business. Children have an opportunity to earn"Yenworthy pounds" by taking on challenges of varying difficulty. The more difficult - the more money you get if you succeed!

Wednesday coasteering

2008-04-17T08:52:00.000-07:00

A lot of fun despite the cold! Tuesday surfers were the coasteering group today

most of the people enjoyed going through tight holes and spaces

It was very funny and I enjoyed going through the rocks and getting wet. Most people in my group helped me. We made a fire out of wood and sticks and we had some marsmallows and then we had some roasted banana. JK

Coasteering was such good fun. Going through the cracks I thought would be really hard but it turned out to be great fun and surprisingly easy. We also made fires and roasted marshmallows and bananas. When we were rock pooling my team caught three sea anemones four crabs and two blennies. A B.

Coasteering was really fun I enjoyed going through the rocks and through the eye of the needle

it was a really small gap. T.R

Coasteering was brilliant and i caught quite a few different crabs and fishes.

i also particularly liked jumping off the rocks.

We had great fun coasteering on the beach I paticularly liked making the fires and toasting marshmallows and bananas. Rockpooling was amazing we caught loads of different crabs and scary blennies!!!!

Ellie C

Wednesday Surfing

2008-04-17T01:20:00.000-07:00

All changed today the coasteering group went surfing and the surfers coasteered!

surfing was great and i stood up three times towards the end and i was sashas partner we were jumping into waves and sash got so cold he didnt want another go at the last quter but we both had a good time .

josh o'rourke

Tuesday surfing

2008-04-16T23:41:00.000-07:00

Surfing is a great experience (Adam)
The best bit was standing up on the board(Joe M)
The best bit was when Joe M fell off because Michael was in the way so he fell off and Joe went smashing into the water (James W)

Glorious,sunny weather, icy seas and determined instructors. A great day surfing for our 24 intrepid boarders! Putsborough beach is a wonderful location for young surfers!

Tuesday coasteering

2008-04-16T23:31:00.000-07:00

The group split today, one went off to Putsborough to surf while the other went down to Lynmouth to rock pool and coasteer.
Rock pooling could have gone on for another hour, pipe fish, blennies and crabs found themselves being ambushed, examined and photographed before being returned to the wild. Fire building was followed by marshmallow toasting then onto the rocks for some excitingly wet coasteering

2008-04-16T00:12:00.000-07:00

Great journey down marred only by the chocolate fiend who generously returned what he had eaten. Arrived in good time to beautiful sunny weather. Children settled quickly and having found their rooms and luggage set about the ropes course with gusto. Greta effort from Olivia and Sasha on the elvis walk!

2008-04-14T06:36:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new St Amands Blog from sunny Yenworthy!

We have just arrived - got our kit and we are now about to go on to the ropes course- so we are too busy to write anything else till later!

Have fun = We will!!