Oakwood Youth Centre Trip
On Tuesday the 19th of September, the Year 5’s and 6’s spent a brilliant day at the Oakwood Youth Challenge Centre in Wokingham. The centre certainly lived up to its name as all the boys found themselves conquering challenges throughout the day. For some boys, it was surmounting the high ropes course (the highest I have ever seen) and for others it was the Olympic standard Climbing Wall. The boys also had the chance to have a go at mountain boarding as well as challenging each other to see who could build the biggest crate stack possible. Collaboration, teamwork, respect and tolerance work certainly the order of the day and the boys quickly learnt that it is sometimes the quieter friend amongst us who has the most creative idea. And so, learning to listen to others and respecting their ideas soon found a group of boys, working as a team, to conquer the low ropes course without ‘losing a life’. Once again, through mastering challenges and raising the level of their game, the boys came to realise that they are so much more than they thought.
Mrs Andrew and Mr Bovingdon
