Year 7 Residential to Whitemoor Lakes

Between July 3rd and 5th a number of Year 7 students went on a residential trip to Whitemoor Lakes. The centre is just outside Birmingham, near Alrewas (north of Lichfield, Staffordshire) and it took us around forty minutes to get there.

We all took part in various activities. These included canoeing, raft-building, archery, zip wire, fencing, climbing, abseiling and many more. The two water sports (canoeing and raft-building) took place in the 40 acre lake that the site boasted. On Wednesday (the day we arrived), we had 3 activities, on Thursday 4 (plus a camp fire) and on Friday 1.
There were four ‘lodges’ where everyone slept during their stay. In each lodge there were around twelve dormitories which contained a bunk-bed, two single beds and had an en-suite bathroon.

During our stay, we were served high-class food over three meals. Breakfast was at 8:30am, Lunch 1:00pm and Dinner/Tea at 6:00pm. We had a good variety of food to choose from however, if you did get a bit peckish in between meals you could purchase a snack or refreshment at the ‘Trading Post’ shop or, alternatively, buy something from the vending machine.

Overall, Whitemoor Lakes was a brilliant trip and we had a really enjoyable stay. I would definitely go again as it’s a great place to do things you haven’t done before.

Gugandeep Sohal 7N

The following are some Student views on the recent trip to Whitemoor Lakes:

• Harjot 7G – Whitemoor Lakes was amazing, I loved the zip-wire and I made lots of friends from different forms and the instructor was great.
• Balkaar 7G – It was the best, I liked the high ropes particularly the Leap of Faith…I hated the spiders when we were changing after the canoeing and raft building!
• Ismail and Rehaan 7G – The lounge was cool with snooker, table tennis, vending machines, comfy chairs and DVD player.
• Aziz 7G – It was exciting I would go again.
• Qasim 7G – The activities were amazing.
• Neroshan and Eesa 7G – Fantastic! Zip-wiring was awesome.