Year 8 Sleepover

Last Thursday was our first All Hallows' Year eight sleepover. Mrs Roberts had planned out a really exciting and fun night for the Year eights thus it was very popular with the day pupils as well - we had almost all beds in the boarding house booked out!
Instead of supper, the Year eights headed upstairs to get changed into warm clothes and wellies as we were going to head up to the woods - luckily the continuous rain that had been surrounding the school this week had stopped just in time. Once there, they all sat around the fire circle and were handed marshmallows to roast by putting them on the end of sticks. Whilst we were waiting for the pizzas to arrive, the kids decided to have a game of 'Manhunt' which was a bit like hide and seek - instead of the people being out when they were found, they instead joined up with the seekers to find everybody else.

After that, pizza did finally arrive thanks to Mrs Winter which was then handed around to everybody, as well as a can of lemonade each. For dessert, jam donuts was the pudding of choice - thus ending off a very healthy meal of course!

We then headed back down to the dorms where they all got into pyjamas and ready for bed.

Disco night!

This Wednesday's activity was our famous boarders' disco! Over this past year, it has always been a favourite activity of the children since we always get the largest amount of day pupils wanting to board specifically for that night.

Straight after supper, the boys raced up to get changed into their 'party' clothes and the girls raced up to do their hair and makeup - however, only a little bit of makeup was allowed of course. It seems that half the fun of the disco is dressing up! The majority of clothing was bright neon and items that didn't appear to suit each other - it seemed the more mismatched the clothes, the better!

Meanwhile, Mr Callow, Mr Gardiner, and Mr Garcia set up St Bede's so that there was fluorescent disco lights, and a DJ booth - run by none other than the school's DJ, Mr Wheatley. Mr Gardiner even managed to hook up a laptop to the flat screen TV so that a visualiser played on the TV whilst the songs went on - adding to the disco-tech atmosphere.

"All about that bass" seemed to be one of the most popular songs which everybody got up and danced to, as well as "Let her go" by Passenger which served as a slow dance - even though many of the boys were too embarrassed to ask anyone to dance!

Overall, it was once again a very successful All Hallows' disco with every child - as well as some of the teachers - getting up to have a boogie on the dancefloor!

Signing off,

Miss Donato :)

T-Shirt Painting

Last Sunday the boarders had more of a relaxed Sunday with a lot more of free time activities than actual planned activities. Fortunately, it was a very sunny day and so the children were allowed to ride bikes, play some tennis and/or football, and also played some 'Mariokart' on the Wii console.

After a big roast lunch, the boarders headed over to the art room - the newly redecorated art room - to start their afternoon activity of T-shirt painting. Lizzie - the artist that came to help with this specific activity - handed out a clean, white t-shirt to everyone, as well as giving them fabric paints of all different colours so that they could start decorating their shirts.

There were many different patterns, shapes, and words on the shirts, in lots and lots of different colours - ensuring that each shirt was completely original.

Will update again soon,

Miss Donato :)