Wednesday "Raid" Activity

For the last boarders activity of the term, the children participated in the group game called 'Raid'. Due to the numbers of kids, both juniors and seniors were separated into three teams - red, yellow and green. Luckily, the weather was absolutely beautiful again and so we held the activity on the Front Field. The rules were as followed:
- Each child had to have a team-coloured ribbon attached to somewhere on their bodies that would be in an easy spot for the opposition to grab
- Each player had to go to the oppositions' base (a circle made out of either red, yellow or green cones) and collect their own coloured tokens
- If someone from the opposing teams manages to take the coloured ribbon from a person, then they have to run back to their base and start their attempt again
- The team with the biggest collection of their own coloured tokens wins that round

Although there was lots of accusations of cheating - as it is an extremely hard game to umpire - but fortunately it was all sorted out after the first couple of rounds when Mr Callow informed the kids that any cheating will result in -5 points.

After many, many games with some talented running and dodging the reds ended up with as the winners as even though they had collected the least amount of tokens, they had done the least amount of cheating - therefore deserving the honour of being the All Hallows' Raid Champions!

Sunday at Taunton

Following on with the amazing sunny weather, the boarders travelled to King's Hall School in Taunton on the last beautifully warm Sunday afternoon.
On arrival, the boarders enjoyed a lovely roast for lunch where they were first able to meet the other boarding children.
After the filling lunch, the children were split up into teams - comprising of both All Hallow's and King's Hall children - in order to carry out the different activities. The other school had arranged a carousel of activities for the All Hallows students such as swimming, climbing, various games, and other physical challenges. Also, since it was such a hot day, everyone was able to enjoy a lovely swim in Taunton's impressive swimming pool.
Both the All Hallows and King's Hall children were able to get along with each other and even were able to make some new friends.
Tatiana (Year Three) said that it was one of the best days of her life and especially loved the climbing wall!
Finally, the exciting afternoon ended with a delicious evening picnic on the Library Lawn back at All Hallows.

Wednesday Campfire Night

Last Wednesday for the second last boarders' activity before half-term, the children travelled up to the school's Forest School. Situated in front of the outdoor classroom halfway up the path, all the junior boarders (from Year 3 to Year 6) sat on logs around an campfire ready for a night of music, hot chocolate, and marshmallows.

Myself, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Toomey, and Miss Martin prepared approximately 60 marshmallow-filled hot chocolates for the kids as well as 60 S'mores which had to be cooked over the fire. Whilst this preparation was going on, the boarders had a couple minutes of free play in the forest - tag and pirates seemed to be the most popular games.

Next, the talented Mr Opey and Mr Emsley bought their guitars and also a harmonica up to the fire circle for sing-a-long's with some classic musical numbers such as 'We will rock you' by Queen, 'Wonderwall' by Oasis, and even a couple of Disney's 'Frozen' songs! Whilst there was some beautiful singing heard amongst the crowd, it seemed that the lyrics of the songs were mostly yelled at the top of their lungs (mainly by the Year 6's) - but entertaining nonetheless. Luckily, all the kids were provided with the words to each song so everyone was able to join in.

It was such a lovely warm night in the beautiful setting of Forest School - all of the garlic plants have now bloomed with little white flowers and the forest floor is almost completely covered in them!
Overall it was an extremely enjoyable night which we will hopefully be able to do again in the next half-term :)

Profiteroles and Pot Noodles

Last Sunday fortunately decided to bless us with some unusual wonderful English weather - basically where one was able to go out and not freeze to death!
Equally as fortunately, all the boarding children took full advantage of this beautiful day by doing lots of outdoor sports (such as ball games), bike riding, and even a swim before lunch.
Sunday roast lunch is always delicious but when the pudding is profiteroles it became ten times more mouth-watering! It was definitely a treat for the kids who devoured it as quickly as they could.

The boarding activity this Sunday was pot noodles where the kids displayed their creative talents. This time the children made decoupage - which had bare photo frames and treasure boxes decorated with beautiful patterned paper, almost mosaic in look. However, some chose the other option of decorating an eclectic range of pottery, clocks, money boxes and plates by using paint, stencils or stamps. The results were very interesting and creative - many of which now reside all over the boarding house!