Class 6 - Carlton Lodge Residential 2017: Day 3
Sorry for the late email - it's been another busy day!
As dawn broke on Day, 3 we needed to attack some ever-expanding damp and muddy piles of clothes and shoes that had somehow exploded all over the dorm rooms and communal areas of Carlton Lodge... Perhaps the CL Elves had been in our belongings in the night looking for left over biscuits or something...
Everyone was woken up earlier this morning with a LOUD and CHEERY
'MORRRRNNNIIINGGGG', the bright bedroom light and our favourite French Dance song playing! The children were 'delighted' as they popped their heads up from underneath their duvet looking quite likes moles all squinty-eyed!
It took some time for the children (and staff members) to join me in the 'bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed' morning club.
We received a lovely email from our Head Teacher, Mrs Richards, so we read that while eating our cereal before our hot breakfast. We love the food here - last night we enjoyed Chicken Stew. Some of us ate Cheese flan. It was delicious!
We are helping out after each meal to clean up the mess on the tables and floor in the Sports Hall (where we eat) and to dry all of the plates, bowls and cutlery.
After we had completed our chores, it was time for the SANDWICH CHALLENGE .... yesterday the teachers helped the children make their sandwiches which was followed by a LONG discussion with staff from Miss Pickard about the 'life-long-skills' that making their own sandwiches would develop `if they did it themselves. As a result, this morning, the children received a tutorial along with detailed instruction on how to:
- butter bread right to the edge without tearing it
- cover the surface of the bread with their filling-of-choice rather than simply piling it all centrally like a 'leaning' tower...
- include some of their 'five-a-day'
- cut a sandwich in half with an almost-blunt knife
- place it in a bag without all of the filling falling out
- tie a knot in a sandwich bag
This was a crash course and it has been decided that the children MUST return for LEVEL 2 and 3 to get their 'Sandwich Making Diploma' by Friday.
The activities today have once again been SUPERB - the children are digging deep, amazing themselves and filling us with pride. We love chatting over dinner about all of the children; each of the staff are bursting with stories of 'WOW... you should have seen so-and-so do the.....' It really is amazing!
Tonight we have done more Scavenger Hunt and Egg Challenges!
We will update you with more tomorrow.
We send lots of love to you all.
Miss Pickard
Class 6 and the whole Residential Team xxx
Class 6 - Carlton Lodge Residential 2017: Day 3
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