Posts Categorised by 'Blue Group'
Session 1 – Day Three – Blue Group
29th June 2016
Today Blue Group started the day with lots of sunshine! Our campers left, bright and early, for Glacier 3000 at Les Diablerets. The journey up to the glacier began with two cable car journeys up to 2900m, followed by an exhilarating trip on the chair lift. Having tackled the lift with ease, our campers had their first encounter with husky sledding. They chose a partner, and got to go sledding with Renee and his training pack.
Our campers were thrilled afterwards, as they had the opportunity to meet the dogs and have their picture taken. There was a lot of belly-rubbing and many bear hugs were given. Renee answered questions about the dogs- sadly, when asked by the campers if they could take the dogs home, Renee said no!
Our campers were then allowed to have a go on the alpine roller coaster- which goes from 2900m to 2750m. Everyone, including the staff, were particularly excited to have this opportunity!
After a delicious lunch, our campers began a ‘peak to peak’ walk, where they had the chance to cross a custom-built suspension bridge to a viewpoint overlooking the entire valley. The viewpoint offered a spectacular view of the alps, including Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn (or the ‘Toberlone mountain’ as we call it!).
Our campers visited the gift shop to buy some souvenirs and then they returned to camp for a choice of sports at the football field, or a quiet afternoon of glacier collages.
All in all, an outstanding day was had by everyone!
Renee and his training dogs in action!
Taking a break to capture the moment!
Session Three B – Day 4!
12th August 2015
Today marked the final day of language lessons where campers created projects about various languages and cultures. The afternoon for reds and blues was spent playing sport and then gyll scrambling which involved overcoming various obstacles in the river. The kids had a great time and loved getting wet and muddy! Meanwhile the greens and yellows took part in mountain adventure day where they learnt to put up hammocks and tarps, filter water and build natural shelters! A great day was had by all and some valuable survival lessons learnt. The evening was spent designing and building rockets which was a great success.
Day One – Session B!
9th August 2015
The campers had their first language lesson of the session in the morning with some interesting debates in French about McDonald’s!
After lunch it was time for an afternoon packed full of fun! Whilst the yellows and greens conquered the climbing wall the reds and blues got creative at art jamming!
After a quick afternoon snack the groups swapped over. A few of the yellows had some fun in the forest despite the rain, learning how to slack line. The campers had a well earned dinner before ending the day with some very loud and lively Karaoke!
Session Three – Day Six!
6th August 2015
After a good camp breakfast, all of the colour groups headed off into the beautiful mountains of the Portes du Soleil. The red and blue group took a slightly shorter route whilst the greens and yellows were able to go on a bit of a longer hike. Thankfully the sun was shining bright, making our hike a lot more enjoyable. Everyone enjoyed lunch on the mountains, before continuing our hike onto the ski hut, which was to be our home for the evening. The late afternoon was spent playing games, dancing to music and chilling out – the rest was much needed after the long day of walking. At dinner time we were joined by our lovely kitchen staff who made us delicious burgers and sausages and chocolate bananas for pudding. After dinner, the red and blue group sang some camping songs whilst the greens and yellows hiked up to the French border and came back by torchlight.
All in all, a great day was had by all.
Session Three – Day Two – Reds and Blues!
3rd August 2015
Reds and Blues started off their day with their first language lessons, with campers learning English, French, Spanish and German everyone did their fair share of bonjours and holas. After quizzing each other on what they learnt over lunch, reds headed off to the Camp Suisse climbing wall while blues tried their hand at various team building games such as the Spiders Web and bomb disposal. With a quick switch round after a spot of cake, blues were put to the test on the wall and reds mastered the crate climb where everyone reached the top and rung the victory bell. Dinner was Lasagne which went down a treat after a busy day. However, there no rest for the wicked and after dinner reds and blues completed the scavenger hunt which had them exploring all of Torgon…winners to be announced on Friday!
Session Two – Day Eleven – Blue Group
29th July 2015
Today we had our last language lessons and put the finishing touches to our talent show pieces! During this everyone realised quite how much they’d learnt over the past two weeks! After a yummy buffet lunch half of us went off to the climbing wall in the sports hall to improve our skills and complete new challenges. The other half did art jamming in the centre, creativity was everywhere!
Finally it was time to shine in the talent show, we demonstrated all our work, it was very exciting and a lot of fun to see everyone work together! The winners will be announced at tomorrows prom, fingers crossed!
Session Two – Day Ten – Reds and Blues
28th July 2015
Today was a very exciting day for the red and blue groups as they were heading off to the Callier chocolate factory and Gruyère old town! Upon our arrival we split everyone into two groups and excitedly started our interactive tour of the factory! The exhibit was really useful and taught us all about how chocolate is made and where the ingredients come from! The kids were very excited and they said they were so shocked that they actually enjoyed factual information because it was about chocolate!After the main exhibits the kids moved on to the most popular section, the taste testing! Everyone was allowed to try each piece once! It was a very yummy starter for our packed lunches!
Next it was time to hit the gift shop where most bought gifts to take home or for the journey back to camp. Finally, to complete our time at Callier we all took part in an interactive quiz summarising everything we’d learnt! Tensions were high as the kids competed for the number one spot!
Next stop on our agenda, Gruyère! We all took a stroll through the beautiful old town and walked by the castle to the park where we set up base camp! Everyone had fun playing in the park and running around!
It was a brilliant day out, so good we didn’t want it to end!
Session Two – Day Nine – Reds and Blues
27th July 2015
Yesterday the red and blue groups had a fun morning of language lessons, improving their speaking and writing and preparing their presentations for Wednesday evenings language talent show.
After a delicious packed lunch enjoyed out on the decking in the sun, the campers piled into the coach and headed down the mountain to the Labyrinth Adventure Park, where they all spent an afternoon of bouncy castles, giant games and of course the Labyrinth itself!
Arriving back at camp, just in time for ‘shower hour’, the camper sat down for a well deserved dinner of french onion soup followed by cottage pie. To top the day off, some team building games were played before bed…it was clear that everyone was ready to bunk down for the night in preparation for their trip to the Callier Chocolate and Gruyere Cheese factories tomorrow.
Sesson Two – Day Eight – Red and Blue Group
26th July 2015
The red and blue group set off bright and early this morning ready for a day on Lake Geneva for a spot of banana boating! Everyone had their fair share of capsized bananas and by lunchtime everyone was soaked! We spent the rest of the afternoon swimming in the lake, playing football and eating ice creams. Despite the weather being a little greyer than we’d hoped there were high spirits all round.
Back at camp, we enjoyed a yummy dinner of tortellini ready for our evening entertainment, Dracula!!
Session Two – Day Seven – Red and Blue Groups
25th July 2015
Today the reds and blues had a relaxed morning cleaning their bedrooms and posing for group photos! The afternoon was spent on a variety of different activities including climbing, art jamming, playing sport and watching a DVD!
A perfect end to top off a busy week, just in time to prepare us for our final week ahead!
