We started the day off with a good breakfast – plenty of toast, cereal and Danish pastries. After that, chores and an opportunity to buy some goodies from the tuck shop.

The various groups then set off to tackle the challenges of the day. Among these were gorge walking where three silly souls who ended up with “numb bums” (Hafsa says) dammed the water which they then released onto “even sillier people” (Ella says) who obviously got drenched.

There was bread making (or bread burning) over open fires which also scented the bakers a curious fragrance of smoke.

The zip line was a-maz-ing (says Isla) and the water challenge on the rope course was “totes brills” (says Isla again.)

The water sports at Loch Morlich was cold, very cold, very very cold (says Anya).  But, at the end of the session, they were all still willing to jump in the loch and swim out to a buoy;)

Tea was minestrone, chicken pie or mushroom risotto followed by Eaton Mess. Num num.

Getting ready for bed now. We have quite a few seriously tired souls who desperately need a good night’s sleep.

Photographs will follow shortly.

First Day at Alltnacriche

More writing to come tomorrow (when Mr Craig will have set it up so that the P7s can edit it!)

Day 3

This is the local adventure, we went up some of the Perthshire hills, it’s really fun and you get to learn about the environment around you.

For the last full day we all had a camp fire and Mrs Radford sang lots of song and we sang with her.

Morlich and Voil did the high ropes today. Morlich had a challenge and it was to see if you could walk across the first, second or third balance beam, but when you came down you sat on the first balance beam and leant back andhung upside down like spiderman.

These are some team challenges, crate climbing and our short rope course. Team challenges devolp our team work, the short rope course got us ready for the high rope course, SCARY!? In  crate climbing we worked as a team while some of us belayed and put crates on the crane to take them t.o the climbers.

See you all tomorrow.

By Jon, Rebecca and Molly

Day 2

These are some of the other things we did. Some of the pictures are of the High Ropes, Hiking and Crate Climbing.

Today for our meals   we had sweet and sour chicken for dinner.

For breakfast we had a selection of stuff.

For  lunch we made our own sandwichs we had lettuce , cucumber , egg mayonaise , salami and cheese.

Today we arrvied at Ardeonaig and we have done some fun activities like archery, crate climbing, spiders web, team challenges and we are looking forward for more activities tomorrow!

In the Sports hall some of us played dogeball while others were playing table tennis and pool in the games room. Or you could watch a movie in the lounge.

We had steak pie and sweetcorn for dinner, it was quite tasty we also had ice cream for pudding!

It is quite big, all of the rooms are named after scottish clans! The bedrooms are quite big!

We have activity groups for outside and they are all named after Scottish lochs!

By Sarah and Jack!

We made it here. Great place, lovely house and views. Here’s a sneaky photo. Watch this space for some more pics coming soon. Don’t forget to leave some comments.

More pics from our visit. Thanks to all the parents for your comments, we love reading them out when we are away.

Day 2

Today was awesome we went to Edinburgh Castle , the National Museum  and Dynamic earth. All is good .  We really liked Dynamic earth: 3D showings and Arctic room. We also liked the fashion area in the museum and the animal area as well. Owen really liked the technology section. (By Aila, Isla and Owen)

Day 1

Good journey down, saw some amazing sights in Deep Sea World.

Settled in to the hostel after a slight change to the rooms

Had a bit of time before dinner then a rush up to the Royal Mile for the ghost tour, which was scarey down in the vaults.

Got back to the hostel just after 9 and straight to bed. Another early start tomorrow!

We have arrived safe and sound!

We kicked off the week with some fun team building exercises, for which we needed to use our communication and problem solving skills.

We had a lovely dinner of bangers and mash or mixed vegetable risotto followed by butterscotch pudding with mandarins.

After dinner, we went orienteering in the dark which was a bit scary at times, and very muddy but mostly lots of fun.  We have enjoyed being in different groups and coming up with different group names.

Tonight we are settling into our rooms; making our own beds and making sure everything is neat and tidy.

Tomorrow we are looking forward to crate climbing! 

Written with the help of Naomi and Amy

Day Two

Today we were woken up early although some of us were already awake!

First thing we did was have breakfast and make up our pack lunches.

We got ready for the day and went outside, we were surprised that was so cold and windy but luckily we had been told to wrap up warm.

We did crate climbing, which is when you are attached to a rope and harness, and with a partner you had to climb up as many crates as you could.

Mrs Paterson and Miss Davidson had a go because it looked like so much fun. When they fell off Mrs Paterson  landed on her bum in a crate, it was very funny.

After lunch we put on our wellies and waterproofs, then headed to the river for some river dripping. We caught and identified water bugs and invertebrates.

It was really interesting! We found a huge Stonefly Larva, which was two years old.

During dinner we sang Happy Birthday to Amber and the chef (Fiona) very kindly made a special birthday cake.

We’ll check in again tomorrow after we’ve been up Kindrogan Hill.

Written with the help of Keeley and Cieran (who had brushed his teeth)

Day 3

Today we climbed a super massive  hill called Kindrogan hill. We learned new things, and were told a story about the people who used to own Kindrogan House, it was a bit creepy. We all enjoyed listening to it though.  We found interesting plants and evidence of places people might have lived. At the top we played a game called ‘camouflage’ and had our lunch.

On the way down we were told about the ‘drop spiders’ to stop them falling on us we had to be silent and creep through the woods. Then, we hit the BOG OF DOOM, which was an incredibly long and muddy mess. Some people lost their shoes in the mud and had to be helped out. Don’t worry we rescued all the shoes in the end (and the children).

In the afternoon we did a low ropes course, it was all about trusting your friends that they would not let you fall. There were nine different stages/challenges you had to go though to complete it. Everybody managed to do everything with a little help from their friends. We all set a target of how many times you could touch the floor.

At night we used torches to go out to set traps for small mammals such as mice and voles. We will check the traps in the morning to see if we have caught anything.

Written with help from Emily and Molly.

Day four

We started the day by going and opening our mammals traps. Five out of the seven groups caught something. It was very funny because Abi (one of the instructors) screamed when a vole ran up her arm, a mouse escaped too.  

Don’t worry we released them back into the wild.

We walked the Cataran trail towards Kirkmichael, the Catarans used to steal each other’s cattle so we had to be on the look out for raiders. When someone shouted raid we had to run back into our “clans” the last clan to get together lost 10 of their cattle. We saw loads of frogs and toads on the way, some of us even got to touch one.

We had lunch by a big pond, which rippled in the wind. We had a go at starting fires together, it was a lot trickier than it looked because it was damp and windy. Most of us managed a little fire that went out quickly.

When we got back to Kindrogan, we had cake! Then we split into two groups, one of them did the leap of faith and the other made environmental art. Then we swapped. While that happened it was snowing… so we were freezing.

We were all really proud of how well we did on the leap of faith.

After dinner we had a campfire, it wasn’t too long because it was cold but we had some popcorn cooked on the fire and sang songs.

Tomorrow morning we will be doing the Nightline, we will tell you all about it when we get home!

Looking forward to coming home tomorrow

Written by Harry Burr and Nathan.

Day 3

Our final report

More fire making and bread making, zipping, roping, kayaking, canoeing and gorge walking today. A sunny morning but a bit cooler in the afternoon.

Some pics of all the fun we’ve had:

First we collected different sizes of sticks and we had to build the fire and light some moss and blow on it, then we got the thin twigs and put them on top. Then the medium sticks then the large sticks. Tom taught us how to make bread. We had a choice of flavours and fruits to put in. You needed milk powder, flour and water to make the dough.

The zip wire (top) and the ropes course (bottom)

Day 2

This was some of us on the ropes course.

Some of us did the zip line and we were running on the air. Some people did water sports, some did making bread as well.

This as the other thing we did, the gorge walk. This is a picture of a group before the toilet flush …

This is us after the toilet flush! What happens is that a couple of people  sit at the top of the river and they make sure there are no gaps so no water can come in, to make a dam. The others sit under them. The top group wait until the water is high then they stand up and the ones below get soaked!

This is the view from the bottom of the zip wire. Our group broke the record for most goes on the zip wire because we listened really well and got organised, even with one injured person on the team.

We’re here!!!

Today we did a very long walk with Dave up a hill. We saw amazing views and lots of unusual beasties, like maggots and beetles. We played a camouflage game and beat the teachers. In the evening we played land grab which is like real life risk.

The dinner was nice, we had a choice of roast chicken or fish.

We had a late snack of hot chocolate and a flapjack.

See you tomorrow, don’t forget to add comments.

from P6.

Friday- Today we are packing and clearing our rooms getting ready to do our last activity the night line. After we are off on our way home see you soon

Thursday- In the morning we checked the traps we caught 2 mice called Dave and Coby. Later we did low ropes it was loads of fun and it was a very nice day. After low Ropes we had lunch then we climbed up Kindrogan Hill it was very steep and there was a huge bog which we nearly lost a shoe in. At night we had a campfire were we played games and sang songs and ate popcorn which was cooked on the fire.

Wednesday- On Wednesday we did thee cataran trail walk in the morning and when we got to the woods we tried to light  fires but only some people got fire and if they did it went out  Next we did the LEAP OF FAITH dun dun duuunnnn Well done Mrs McBride for doing the leap of faith! At night we set mammal traps and  today (thursday) we are going to check them, so hopefully they have things in them.

Tuesday- Today We Did Pond Dipping And Crate Climbing. And At Night We Did A Victorian House Trail We Found A Creepy Stuffed Eagle In The Library.

Today we arrived safely at 12:30. We then found our rooms and after we went out onto the lawn because it was an amazing  day!

Afterwords we did team games and then we had CAKE!!!!!!

After a Tea of BANGERS UND MASH after words we did orienteering in the dark

We’re all really excited about going to Kindrogan next week. Watch this space for updates.

On the 12th of May, the whole P5 year group went to Peterhead to try some taster sessions at the sailing club.