May 2010.pub - Littleover Community School

Liddington 2010
On Friday 14 th May, thirty five pupils from Years 8, 9 and 10 set off on a netball trip to Liddington,
along with Mrs Stroud, Mrs Taylor, Mrs Oversby and Mrs Evans. Three hours later we arrived in
Swindon, ready for the weekend ahead which would be filled with netball and activities. Later on
we went to do activities in our year group. Year 8 played ‘capture the flag’, Year 9s attempted the
‘Liddington lunacy challenge’ and Year 10s played ‘ultimate frisbee’.
On Saturday morning we were up and ready for breakfast by 8am! The Year 8 and 9 teams got
ready for their first netball matches and the Year 10s headed off to do their activities. We did
climbing, low ropes, problem solving and crate stacking; this last one turned out to be great fun
and we decided it was the best activity. Problem solving was also good as we tried to unravel
ourselves from a ‘human knot’ and tried to get across a ‘river’ without letting anyone fall in! After
we’d finished our activities we went to the netball courts to see how our Year 8 and 9 teams were
getting on. We were very pleased with what we saw! The Year 9 team were unbeaten, as were
one Year 8 team, and the other Year 8s had only lost a couple of matches.
After the busy morning filled with netball for the younger two years and activities for Year 10, we
all sat down for a well needed and well deserved lunch. When we’d finished we swapped round
what we were doing and the Year 10s went to play netball and the other two years went to
complete the same activities that we’d done earlier. By the end of the first day everyone was very
tired as three of our four teams were unbeaten in the tournament so far, but we weren’t tired
enough to go to bed yet!
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