development course day 4

Thursday 5th February 2009

Caving

We started at 10am, had some toast for breakfast then we all filled in some forms, then we had a break when we came after the break we all got told the safety rules and what was going to happen when we’re in the caves. When we got there we put on the safety equipment and listen to the safety instructions. We all walked to the cave when we got to the cave, we went into the cave, to start with we had to crawl or kneel into the cave and started to walk around in the cave and done little mission and at the end we had to clean all of are equipment.

Hayley, Troy, Becky

Development Day 3 - Survival Day

Wednesday 4th February 2009

Survival day


We all went on the moors for a survival day. First when we was on the moors we all had to do a challenge, the challenge was that we all had to stand on planks of wood like jenga and someone else was standing on wood opposite the plants of wood and without touching the floor we had to get all the wood and all the team on the other wood. We went for a walk and found an injured person (Martyn), we had to go and find stuff to pick up a injured person and we made stretcher with piece of plastic and two big sticks and all of our team carried him to safety and after that we made two teams and made dens in 20 minutes and after that we tried to make fires and then we had some cake and custard and that was our day.

Development Course Day 2 - Winter Beach Day

Thursday 29th January

Beach day

We all went to the beach and went for a walk on the rocks looking for a starfish. We all played a game on the beach with balloons. The first game was a race where we all had a balloon on the side of our ankles then we all had to run along the beach and we had to try and not pop the balloon when we was running.
The second game was the balloon was still on are ankles and we had to pop each others balloon and when your balloon popped you were out of the game.
We all sit down by lots of rocks and had lunch, we all had a nice hot chocolate as well as it was a cold day.
After lunch we all played a challenged game where we had a 10 by 10 electric maze we had to find a away across without talking and if you made a mistake you had to go back the way you went and you only had a number of points

Jordan
Troy
Sarahjane
Becky
Chloe
Hayley
Jon

Development Course Day 1 - 28th January 09

Jon, Hayley, Chloe, Troy, Jordan, Becky.

The group went out to the moors after playing some team building games at the Zone. On the moors we played some other team building skill games that were called the one breath game is were you had to take a deep breath and run whilst shouting as loud as you can and when you run out of breath you have to stop and the winner would be the person who got the furthest. The other team games that we played were freestyle skipping and another game called the sling game we got a fast time of 06:45 seconds.

Troy: I enjoyed skipping with the rest of the group.

Jon: I enjoyed skipping and the sling game with the rest of the group.

Hayley: The team building exercises.

Jordan: the skipping and the running and screaming

Chloe: I just enjoyed all of it

Becky: I liked the skipping.

Taster Day - 21st January 2009

Hayley, Roger, John, Dean.


Hayley thought that the best part of the day was the snow men and the walk in the woods and snow.

Roger liked sitting around the fire drinking hot chocolate and dipping chocolate bar in his drink

John enjoyed having a snow fight with his news friends

Dean enjoyed the whole experience and would recommend it to a friend in need of help.


Martyn and Mark were fantastic and we were glad to have them instead of stubborn people, thank you.

Taster Day 14th January 2009

In the morning we play a game called hand slaps. Then we went to the store room to get some equipment, after that we went to Mount Edgecumbe and went for a walk and we stopped for a hot chocolate and walked back to the mini bus and come back to the zone to write up a blog. All though the day we was explained what was going to happen on the course.

Get On Ya Bike

Mountain biking from Princetown to Plymouth was actually pretty amazing. I thought it was just going to be a really long bike ride, when in fact not only was it a lot bigger than I thought, I got really muddy which was class and I saw some really amazing views. Some of the hills were really steep going up and down, we had to put a lot of effort into it and made sure we was in control. I’m glad I done it and I want to do it more often, maybe get bigger and bigger as I go along. It was fun dressed as reindeers and Santa made everyone else laugh and smile at us which made us quite happy as well. To tip it all off at the end a big crowd on the hoe stopped us and a man said “Hey, didn’t we see you unloading the van at Princetown?”
And that just made us all really happy. We got some funny pictures as well and hopefully we are getting some kind of certificate so we can add that to our portfolios.

From Gerry