Thursday - Pictures of the Day

Team Kola Kings

 



Team Wacky Wombats

 

Team All Stars

 

 

Team Rainbow Family

 

Team Jumping Jelly Beans

 

 

 

 

 



The PGL Alphabet

A – Is for Team All Stars abseiling like Spidermen.

B – Is for buckets and buckets of rain, which didn’t dampen the spirits of anyone.

C – Is for capsized canoes, one very wet instructor and the children soon discovering there is no underwater heating in the lake.

D – Is for dirty clothes hanging from every available space.

E – Is for exhausted staff trying to keep up with energetic children, but loving every minute.

F – Is for food, food, food, food, food...

G – Is for the giant swing, giant wedgies and some choice vocabulary heard.

H - Is for hair-raising happy moments, but safe.

I – Is for incredible achievements of children reaching their individual goals and exceeding them on many occasions.

J – Is for Jumping Jelly Beans whose leader has mad hair styles in this wind!

K – Is for Kola Kings “Who’ve had a bumper day!” quoted Mrs Faulds.

L – Is for limbo dancing and children defying the laws of gravity.

M – Is for many miles walked to and from the dinner hall and masses of memories for life being made.

N – Is for not knowing what the weather will be doing next.

O – Is for orienteering and running around with new found friends.

P – Is for PGL instructors commenting on how our children are polite and well behaved.

Q – Is for quotes coming from all children tomorrow night.

R – Is for the Rainbow Family making Mrs Ibbott proud, but embarrassed whenever their name is called.

S – Is for sweets bought from the gift shop wiping the store clean.

T – Is for tweeting, please follow us in @SpringfieldPri

U – Is for underground tunnelling and children making good impressions of meerkats.

V – Is for the valley of the sight of the gun.

W – Is for Wacky Wombats

X – Is for the two dyslexic teachers who try and write this blog every night.

Y – Is for yawning parents wanting to go to bed, but stay up to wait for the blog.

Z – Is for zip wires that end in the massive puddles and children modelling interesting tide marks on their trousers.

Wednesday - Pictures of the Day

Team Kola Kings

Team Rainbow Family

 

Team All Stars

 

Team Jumping Jelly Bean

 

Team Wacky Wombats

 

 

 

Tuesday Pictures of the Day

Team Photo (some were hiding from the wind and rain!)

 

 

Team Whacky Wombats

Team Jumping Jelly Babies

 

Team All Stars

 

Team Rainbow Family

 

Team Kola Kings

 

 



Day 1 and Day 2

To begin, sorry for no blog update last night, but PGL had updated their security and blogs were blocked unless approved. Ours has now been approved and we can access it.

Our journey down was uneventful all though slightly damp – a sign of things to come. We arrived and were allowed to leave our bags outside our allocated chalets and made our way to the sports hall for lunch and games. A competitive game of football rounders was eventually won by team Sapphire 24-23.

Last night was spent with much parading up and down, but the children were way too excited to go to sleep for hours. The last cabin finally succumbed at 12.30 am and first voices were heard at 5am. However, there were many bravado stories of midnight feasts and no sleep all night long.

Today’s Recipe for Making Memories

1 x massive rainstorm from 10a.m. till 12.30pm to suitably soak little children, but not wash the smiles from their faces.

4 x activities completed with loads of team building and new friendships made.

260 x puddles jumped whenever we have walked to the hall and back

51 x pairs of saturated trainers drying outside the chalets.

45 x toothbrushes unused.

1 x pair of waterproof trousers worn with only pants on underneath

102 x beaming eyes through the grey weather.

8 x impressed instructors who have all commented how polite the children have been.

1 x wild head of hair belonging to Mrs ...............

1 x groupie called Sophie who has taught them a new handclap - arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

1 x kilometre of rope pulled to get all the children to the top of the giant swing.

46 x onesies worn by the children.

11 x children decided that the best way to stop at the bottom of the zip wire was to sit in a puddle.

100,000 x calories of food consumed (by the children alone!)

51x children fast asleep.

12x cabins where you can no longer see the carpet!

66x tweets sent - @SpringfieldPri

18x replies off parents.

1x shoe lost

36x unexpected swims in the lake.

23x layers of clothing worn on one child.

16x boys who badly needed a shower.

Put all into a bowl and mix to ensure a cake full of many happy memories of fun and laughs.

Thursday's Pictures of the Day

Team Dollymixtures - Did he make the leap?

 

 

Team Hyper - This is the best way to describe - A Sense of Achievement

 



Team KFC - Zip Wire Dream Team

Team Fabtastics - Reaching for the top

The best kids - what a wonderful week

Terrific Thursday, Classic Quotes

Beth –“I was so excited about the giant swing, but when I got there I was petrified and wouldn’t look up but I ended up going to the top twice.”

Tom – “Despite having a fear of heights, I have achieved: reaching the top of the giant swing, abseil and climb the climbing wall all the way to the top. I made me feel fantastic about myself.”

Daniel – “Facing my fear of heights and climbing the wall. It made me feel how amazing I am.”

Oliver  - “The highlight of the week must be the giant swing, but to be honest the whole week has just blown me away.”

Ben S – I never thought I would be able to do the trapeze, but I did and I felt happy that I had achieved one of my goals.”

Chester – “I love the giant swing. I promised myself that I wouldn’t get wet during rafting but in the end I jumped in.”

Ronnie – “I have conquered my fear of heights a little. I feel my swimming is getting better after falling in whilst rafting. I loved climbing.”

Kaitlyn – “I never thought that I was scared of heights, but I found some of the highest activities challenging but I conquered them.”

Abigail – “I loved being like a monkey on Jacob’s Ladder and getting to the top – unbelievable!”

Connor – “I have achieved so much this week but especially the giant swing that I thought I wasn’t going to do. I am very proud of myself for exceeding my goals on the climbing wall.”

Anthony – “My best activity was the zip wire. I was pretty good at fencing and not too bad at archery, the food has been fantastic.”

Charlie – “I tried not to get too wet in rafting but Alex pushed me in. I enjoyed the climbing and got up there in a few seconds.”

Kasey – “I lost my voice, but conquered my fear of heights.”

Clarissa – “I adored climbing, loved the high activities, enjoyed the challenge and had an amazing time with all my friends. Lots of memories to remember.”

Abbi – “I was so proud as I got un-hooked from my harness, as I had just finished the most handshaking activity ever – climbing. It was terrifying at first but gradually became fun.”

Jade – “I had so much fun on the giant swing. The harness was uncomfortable and we got pulled up in the air, we pulled the cord then dropped down before swinging. It was really scary.”

Abisha – “I am proud of myself for climbing all the way up the climbing wall. When I got down, it felt like I was flying and I LOVED IT!”

Declan – “I conquered the abseiling wall. My biggest achievement was only spending £3 in the shop, the next day I spent all but 25p.”

Ethan – “When we got to the abseiling tower Abbi said “there’s a bar at the top!” funnily I thought she meant a drinks bar. I relaxed and bounced down.”

Keely – “I’m so proud I completed the abseiling tower and overcame my fear of heights. When I got up there it was drop dead scary but I did it.”

Lewis – I’m glad I actually had a go at the giant swing with Miss Grove. I felt very nervous, but proud of myself.”

 

Charlotte – “Anxiously, I looked up at the huge construction: the giant swing. I was petrified, but went right to the top twice. The word to describe it would simply be: amazeballs!!”

Elisha B – “I conquered and climbed Jacob’s Ladder and it felt so amazing standing on the top pole.”

Amy T – “ I am very happy for myself that I conquered the climbing wall and reached the top without stopping.”

Ben  - “I conquered my fear of heights and climbed my way to the top of the climbing wall and abseiled down, it made me feel extremely happy.”

Michael  - “I have been on everything and went to the top of the giant swing and was extremely happy but scared when the cord was pulled.”

Ope – “I am delighted that I achieved my goal and made it to the top of the climbing wall, the view was amazing.”

Daisy J – “I am so happy that I managed to get to the top of the big swing and not scream as much as I thought I would.”

Amy P – “I am really proud that I reached the top of the climbing tower at my first attempt.”

Lucy – “I am really happy that I have reached the top of the giant swing, abseil tower, Jacobs ladder and climbing wall.”

Jess – “Even though I am scared of heights, I managed to get to the top of the giant swing and doubled where I wanted to get to on the climbing wall.”

Harry – “Top of Jacob’s Ladder is amazzzzzzzzzzzinnnnngggggggggggg – yessssss!!!!”

Kieran – “I have liked all of the climbing activities as on the way down you get a massive adrenaline rush going against all your instincts and letting go of the apparatus and trusting the equipment to do its job.”

Alex – “I would like to do it all again. I’ve made new friends with Chester and Charlie. The scariest thing would be looking down from the big swing.”

Megan – “I loved the zip wire and the giant swing, even though my shoes flew off on the zip wire I carried on and had another go.”

Grace – “I thought I wouldn’t go to the top of the giant swing but I did in the end and I loved it.”

Amy D – “I was so proud of getting to the top of the climbing wall because I thought I was going to chicken out and just go to the middle.”