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Cliffe House 2009

Cliffe House is an old Victorian house.The children have the opportunity to go for a residential visit at some point in Key Stage 2. This page shows some of the things they did during a visit in October 2009.

Crate Game

The object of the crate game is to get all your team around the course without your foot touching the ground below.

The crate game is a game that makes you talk and think about working with other people. There are lots of complications and danger zones if you aren’t sensible or concentrating. The best bit was going down the zip wire at the end of the course. The hardest bit was probably the monkey bars (it is not easy to hang in mid air). Reaching out and grabbing the seat of the zip wire feels like your reaching out and grabbing a trophy.

The Tyre Tunnel

The Tyre Tunnel is a tunnel that you crawl through to get to the other side. It is made out of old thick bulky tractor tyres. When people go through there are hiding spots in between the different tyres. Some people get really scared because they get touched by a person hiding in the gaps. The gaps hold one person in each side but you can curve over with the tyre. Also when people do curve round with the tyre it seems like they have crawled up the top of the tyre and stretched out to hold themselves up.

The tyre game

The object of the tyre game was to get the red tyres onto the blue stick and the blue tyres onto the red stick. The rules were that you had to have 4 people carrying the tyre at once and you weren’t allowed to put the tyres on the floor.

It was very hard and you need a good strategy and lots of communication. When you had done that you had to get them zig zag like red blue red blue……

In the end we all worked it out and had a photo taken before moving on to the next activity.

Meal times at Cliffe House were very good. We waited in the lounge until we heard the gong in the dining room. Then we walked to the dining room and sat down in our places. One person was the server for each table. That person served the main part of the meal. After you’ve finished the server cleared the table then sat back down until pudding came. The dinner ladies served the pudding to everyone. Then the sever cleared the table and wiped it.

At the adventure playground there are lots of things to play on like the zip wire, monkey bars and the spider web. The adventure playground is big. You can play in the adventure playground in free time. The zip wire is fast when someone pushes you. The monkey bars are quite hard for me because I can’t reach the next bar. The tight rope for beginners is easy because there are two ropes to hold on to.

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