On Wednesday 15th June Year 8 went on a trip to HOAC with DCGS. It was a very eventful and thrilling day.
My two activities were raft building and high ropes. During raft building we learnt how to tie a Xfactor knot, the instructor showed us the knot once and then we were on our own. We all tried our hardest, however, failed miserably. Luckily Gabby had learnt to tie that knot before and knew exactly how to do it - she completed all eight knots!
We tied the barrels to the wooden logs and tested it out by lifting it up and then shaking it to see if it fell apart! Once we were happy with the results we placed it on the water to test it out. We had to race around the yellow buoy, ours fell apart half way through the race. When we got back to dry land we had to take it apart as quickly as possible and then sit in a circle and sing a song. Sadly we lost!
In the afternoon our activity was the high ropes. We had to race to the top of a selection of ropes, tyres and webs; a Jacob’s Ladder challenge and climbing to the top of a high tower. It was very scary because it was very wobbly and high up! The high tower was quite terrifying because we had to go even higher up and then four of us had to stand up on the platform at the top, which was also very unstable.
The Jacob’s Ladder was a great team building activity because we went up in groups of four and had to help each other get as high as possible within 3 minutes. It was a massive floating ladder made with wood logs, but the gaps in-between each log got bigger each time. We made it to the fourth level on the ladder. It was all pretty scary but it was definitely fun and rewarding in the end.
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