b'We spent three days at Whitemoor lakes in July as part of our Year 7 residential. In general, I personally had an amazing time from ziplining to raft building. This is a little summary of my experience inThe moment the activities.you jump off the On the first day we caught a coach from platform your heart school straight to Whitemoor Lakes which races, but as you go was a pleasant 40 minutes drive. As soon down the wire, you realise it isnt as we arrived, we picked up our suitcasesAt 9:30 we as daunting as you expect. The windand a member of staff from Whitemoorheaded to our lining-up whistled in my ears as the trees blurreddirected us around the centre for a tour.station as we waited for an instructor to into a green mess. I felt a sense of freedomWe were then told to leave our suitcasescollect us. Our instructors name was and exhilaration as I soared through the air,in a corridor and had to sort out our bedDylan. Firstly, Dylan took us to some completely immersed in the moment. Assheets for our dorms. After we completedcrates with helmets in and we put them I reached the bottom, I felt the adrenalinethe task of doing our bed sheets, we wereon. Then we went to a cabin where all the in my veins. Overall, it was a wonderfulasked to collect our suitcases from thelife jackets were stored, and we put one experience, and I wish I could do it again. door and put them in our rooms. on. After this Dylan told us to push our Ibrahim Khan, 7W We then had a bit of free time to settle incanoes into the lake and jump in with a and get prepared. In this time, we werepaddle. Once we had got in, we rowed provided with a communal area andthe canoe to the other side of the lake and had our lunch. We then prepared for ourplayed some games. In the first game we Last July, most of Year 7 went to Whitemoorfirst activity which was team games. Wehad to chuck a sponge in another canoe, Lakes. I would recommend it to every singlestarted off by playing a fun game. We hadand the canoe the sponge fell in had to do person who has the chance to go. We gotto run on grassland as far as we coulda forfeit. As an example, one of the forfeits to experience canoeing, ziplining, traversing,whilst screaming, but the moment youincluded putting all of your arm in the archery, campfires and my personalstopped screaming to take a breath, youwater and lifting it above your head. For favouriteraft building. The reason this washad to stop where you were. Personally,the second game we did head, shoulders, my favourite is that I kept on falling in and II wasnt the best at this game, but I hadknees and toes but on the canoe and the tilted the whole boat. I would do anything tofun taking part. We then did a game whereboat started shaking. After we did this our do it again. We had two logs and six barrelswe were goalkeepers so we opened ourtime ran out, so we rowed back to the and had to rope them together. It fell apartlegs wide and we couldnt let the ball goshore and took our equipment off and got when our instructor started to move the raft.through our legs or we were out. I enjoyedchanged in the lockers.We got to splash other groups, and it wasthis game. Once we completed our firstWe then had a 30-minute break before our fun. We also did a nightline that involvedactivity, we went to our dorms to have asecond activity which was Gladiator. After being blindfolded and walking through anhalf-hour break before our second activity. our break ran out, we waited for Dylan to obstacle course. We walked through socollect us and once he did, we walked many traps and it was fun! We then went for our second activityover, put a harness on and a helmet for Dylan Ly, 7N which was zip wiring. We first gothealth and safety. We then got started harnesses on for our safety and walked upstraight away. Dylan strapped us in, and some stairs to reach the top of a woodenwe started to ascend the obstacle. The building. We were then strapped into thefirst obstacle was about strength as we zipline by a member of staff called Katehad to pull ourselves up onto a beam; and then she let us go and we zoomedthen there was a climbing frame that took down the zipline. We then had time toup one quarter of it. After this we hopped shower and eat our dinner as day 1 aton some tyres, and finally we had to get Whitemoor Lakes came to an end. ourselves to balance on a beam. I found The next day we woke up atthis really fun.approximately 7:45 and had to getWe did more and more activities like raft ready for breakfast at 8:30. At 8:25building and others. I had a fantastic time we started to make our way down toat Whitemoor Lakes. Every staff member the dining hall and got ready to eat.was extremely nice, and we were Once we had eaten our breakfast,provided with great food and excellent our teacher told us our first activity.health and safety advice. The hygiene My first activity was canoeing so wewas also excellent. Overall, it was an went back to our dorms to collectamazing experience.a spare pair of clothes for our first activity at 9:30. Brandon Sindhu, 7NWhitemoor Lakes was very fun, there were a variety of activities. My favourite activity was raft building as you built a raft and had to ensure it floated. We had fun pushing each other off. I liked the coaches as they joked around but were serious with us after. I wish I could go again to Whitemoor Lakes.Gursahib Bajwa, 7A45'