Year 6 Residential – Plas Gwynant: Day 1

Here we go then… Year 6 have returned to Plas Gwynant!

The weather gods tried to test us a little today, but with the sun never too far away, were we bothered? Of course not.

We arrived at Plas Gwynant at around 1:30pm and there was no time to waste. Lunch was quickly eaten and we gathered together to talk about why we are here for the week. The children had some great ideas:

· “To experience the outdoors.”

· “To get away from our phones.”

· “To show resilience.”

All excellent answers, Year 6. But our personal favourite was the simplest one of all… to have fun!

After collecting our clothing and equipment, it was time to explore our new home for the week. And by exploring, we mean rolling down muddy hills, racing across fields and, of course, getting very wet in the stream. Safe to say the adventure had well and truly begun.

After all that excitement, tea was very welcome: fish or pizza with chips, followed by arctic roll and peaches. A big hit all round.

Even though there was still a little rain in the air, that didn’t stop us heading out for our evening activity of orienteering around the centre. Teams raced around the grounds searching for checkpoints and the competitive spirit was definitely out in force. Tonight’s extremely modest winners were: Elijah and Thomas. Great job, gang!

To finish the day, we enjoyed Plas Gwynant’s traditional hot chocolate before settling down to write our diaries and reflect on a fantastic first day.

Here are a few of the children’s comments about the start of our wonderful week in North Wales…

Leila-May: “Going in the stream was so much fun because I didn’t expect to get so wet on day one. Looking forward to tomorrow.”

Ryan: “Rolling down the was great although it made us rather dizzy, bumping into each other when getting up!”

Ava: “I loved Mrs Boaler’s groovy dancing during the game!”

Nos da 👋