Science weekend in Wales
On the weekend of 28-30 November 2014, 10 Year 7 students ventured to Idwal Cottage Youth Hostel in North Wales to explore some of the local attractions. Yashryan, Gurkirut and Anu write:
“When we came into school on Friday morning we just wanted the day to be over because we all wanted to go to Wales. We dropped off our luggage in Mr Mohsin’s room. When the school day was over we headed back to Mr Mohsin’s and got changed into comfortable clothes. We played games on the computers while we were waiting for the minibus to come from the Gurudwara car park. Once it had arrived we got our luggage and gave it to Mr Jones who packed it very neatly onto the minibus. The people on the trip were Gurkirut, Yashryan, Huzaifah, Eesa, Kashef, Anu, Ashraf, Mijanur, Rieadul, Franciszek, Mr Mohsin, Mr Jones and Miss Hurley. On the bus we listened to music and we had a stop off on the way in Llangollen to buy food in the Co-operative supermarket. At the end of the journey, when we arrived at the hostel, we were put into one room of 4 and one of 6. We then had half an hour to settle down and get ready for dinner, after which we played pool and other games.
On Saturday, we went to Dinorwic hydro-electric Power Station (known as the Electric Mountain) and we had a full tour after watching a simulator of a helicopter ride around Snowdonia. One member of the group (Francis) was very worried about what had happened to the fish when the station was built but learned that £2 million was spent making a special tunnel for them. After the tour we spent an hour on a climbing wall. After this we went to Caernarfon to have free time and lunch. After 40 minutes we met the teachers again and had a tour of Caernarfon Castle (by the way the castle was AMAZING). We then searched around the streets for a shop that sold footballs. Despite our hard try we gave up as we reached Iceland to shop for what we were going to have for dinner. Upon our arrival back at the Hostel we all went to the Yr Ystafell Ymgasglu (the gathering room) and rested for a few hours. After dinner Mr Mohsin and Mr Jones had a pool match. Mr Jones dominated but then Mr Mohsin came out of nowhere and won by a ‘fluke’ (stated Mr Jones). Mr Jones won the re-match after we went to bed though. On Sunday morning, we had breakfast, packed away and loaded up the minibus. We then walked from the Hostel up to a lake (Llyn Idwal) before heading to Betwys-y-Coed where we played football with a group of Thai boxers from Telford. Unfortunately, we then had to head home but persuaded our teachers to stop at McDonalds for lunch. Overall, the trip was awesome and we would love to go again.”
