Hoy Trip Pictures!

At last here are some of the photographs from the Hoy Trip!  Miss Shearer has made collages of all the different activities to include as many photographs as possible but she is going to make a disc for everyone to have with more photographs on it to have as a keepsake! For now though here are some photos of our fantastic trip!

Day One

The Golden Marianna Boat Trip - we were all very excited to be on our journey to Hoy!

 

 

Once we had walked up the hill to the Hoy Centre, which was quite a climb, we got to find out which room was ours, dropped off our cases and found out what activities we would be doing.  We started off with a 'magic wand' activity where we had to lower a pipe to the ground with just our fingers.  It was tricky!  We also had to try and tie a 'reef knot' using a huge piece of rope and everyone in the class.  It was tricky too! 

 

 

After this we left the Hoy Centre and headed for the beach to have lunch and do some Archery.  We worked in our three groups - The Fat Sausages, The Streaky Bacons and The Fried Eggs - and competed with each other to win the most points and to see who could pop the balloon first.  It was great fun and we really enjoyed it!  The rain didn't even put us off!

 

 

After this we headed along the beach to do some 'Beach Art'.  We worked in small groups to create a piece of art from what we could find on the beach.  We had everything from mermaids to teradactyls to stick men!  The Mermaid and The Sand Faces came joint first in the competition but Mr Macleod thought everyone was really a winner!

 

We headed back to the Hoy Centre and got ready to have our tea - which we were all really looking forward to after all that fresh air!  After tea Nigel played some games with us and told us there would be a talent show the next evening and that we all needed to take part in it.  We all set off rehearsing what we were going to do the next evening!  We then watched a bit of Despicable Me and relaxed after a hard afternoon!  We showered and got ready for supper - hot chocolate and biscuits! Yum! We headed to bed after this to get a good nights sleep before another busy day!

 



Day Two

We were up bright and early and raring to go on Day two!  We were going on a Gorge Walk first thing so we needed to get ourselves organised by time. After breakfast we got all our waterproofs, boots and helmets on and headed in the Mini Bus to the site of the Gorge Walk.  It was amazing!  We didn't realise when we first set off just what it was going to be like!

 

Down in the Gorge we had to negotiate rocks, water and plenty of slippy surfaces.  We had to use ropes to get us down some of the steeper parts and it took us about an hour and a half to reach the bottom.  After a quick rest we headed back up the way however, it only took us 15 minutes to climb back to the top!  We were pros by the time we got to the top!

 



We went back to the Hoy Centre and had our lunch and a much needed rest!  Then we prepared ourselves for an afternoon at the Sandy Loch where we would work in groups doing lots of different activities.

Nigel helped us to make our own bows which we then used to fire arrows as far as we could into the heather.  The bows were good and our arrows went pretty far when we fired them!

We also got to try our hand at 'bushcraft' - making our own fires and using them to heat water in Kelly Kettles!  We used the water to make a cup of hot chocolate!  We had to gather the fuel for the fire and use a fire stone to create a spark to light the fire.  It was really hard work and we were glad we weren't relying on making our own fire to cook our food for the evening!

 

 

We also did canoeing on the Loch.  We had to make a raft with two canoes as it was quite windy and we needed our strength all together.  We learned how to paddle and how to work together to steer the canoe!  After all that we had to make sure we 'thanked the fishes' for letting us paddle on the loch! 

After all that we headed back to the Hoy Centre and we all couldn't wait for our tea!  After we had eaten and cleared our things away, we had our final talent show practices.  We gathered in the hall and got ready to show the rest of the class our talents!  Mrs Whitford and Mr MacLeod were really impressed with the standard of our talents - we did everything from drama to quizzes to singing!  Chloe, Isla and Amber were declared the winners after a closely run contest!  We all enjoyed a boogie to their song before settling down to watch the last part of Despicable Me.  After showers we were ready for supper and bed as we were pretty tired! 

 

We were up and on the go early again the next morning ready for a good helping of toast and ceral and making our own packed lunches.

For our last activity of the trip we headed into The Hoy Woods for some Orienteering.  We had to climb lots of fences before we reached the woods.  Mr Taylor managed to fall over climbing over once fence so we had to make sure he got over the rest of them safely! We had to find different posts in the woods using a map and find the letter on the post.  It was tricky to navigate our way around the woods but we managed not to get too lost!

We then worked in small groups to create a shelter for ourselves if we were very small and stuck in the woods.  We had to think carefully about what material we could lift and how we could make sure our shelter stayed up.  It was a great activity to finish off our trip to Hoy!

 

We headed back to the Hoy Centre for the final time to have lunch and tidy up before the Boat.  We had a fantastic time and got to experience some amazing activities.  Everyone did something that they were proud of during the trip and some people even conquered fears they had! 

 

We headed home with some brilliant new memories of our class trip to Hoy!