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• Summer Reading Challenge and Events 2023

  Sun 23 Jul 2023

  Sandwell Libraries

  During the Summer holidays, visit your local Sandwell library to loan books and complete the `Summer Reading Challenge` or take part in the wide range of events that Sandwell are offering for FREE!  Take a look at the attached poster to find out more.

  

• Yr6 Frank Chapman Day 2

  Thu 20 Jul 2023

  We all had a good night's sleep and we didn't wake our teachers up too early! 

   

  Today we had some climbing activities to do. The instructors showed us how to put on our harnesses and helmet safely and then showed us the high ropes. They really were high! We had 4 different activities to do over the day. 

   

  On the high ropes we had to challenge ourselves to climb as high as we could. This wasn't easy and we had to climb on ropes ladders, tyres and ropes. Sometimes there wasn't much to hold on to. The instructors showed us how to keep our friends safe by holding their safety ropes as a team.

   

  We also had to try to climb a very tall tree. When we got to the top, our friends had to lower us down. 

   

  Some of found the abseil a little scary. We had to climb the climbing wall and then our instructor helped us abseil down. Stepping back over the edge was very scary but we all managed it!

   

  We built some excellent team work skills in the crate stacking challenge. We had to work with a partner to build and stand on the highest tower of milk crates. They weren't very big and they were very wobbly! The winning pair managed to scale 14 crates!

   

  After tea, we walked down into the forest and collected materials to make some Earth Art. We also collected some clay to make our own funny faces.

  

• Yr6 Frank Champan - Day 1

  Wed 19 Jul 2023

  We’ve had a great day today. We had a tour of the centre as soon as we arrived and had get unpacked and make our beds. Some of us found this quite tricky!

   

  After that, we had some free time to explore the grounds. We played football, played on the obstacle course and went to have a look at the resident chickens.

   

  Then it was time for our first activity. We had to be brave and explore a mine with our group. It was quite a small space and very dark and muddy inside. At least it was so dark we couldn’t see the spiders! We also built our teamworking skills by completing a blind line. The person at the front of the line was our leader and everyone else had to wear a blindfold. We had to follow the rope around forest while they helped us. There were quite a few obstacles to get over and under and even a few very muddy (and slippery!) puddles.

   

  By now, we were all very hungry so we all enjoyed our tea. For our evening activity, we played a game called 101. Each team had 101 questions about the Frank Chapman centre that they had to find the answer to, the only problem was the answers were spread all over the site! The winning team scored an amazing 83 out of 101!

   

  We are all very excited for tomorrow when we get to see how brave we are on the high ropes and the climbing wall.