YEAR 9 TRIP TO CAZORLA - 2001

At the end of the school year 2000 / 2001 Year 9 went on a five day activity trip to a camp in Gazorla, situated near Jaen. We left school at 9:30a.m. on Monday the 11th June and arrived at the camp in the afternoon, after a five or six hour bus journey. The campsite was in a protected area in a forest clearing. There were nine wooden huts. The huts were split into two rooms for six to eight people. The food was really good, for breakfast we had bread or cereal with juice or hot chocolate every day. Lunch and dinner, however, was different each day. During the daytime we did many different activities, all kinds of different things, like river scrambling, fencing, horseriding, abseiling, rock climbing, orienteering, archery and kayaking. Each activity was about two hours long and we always had a lot of fun. While we were staying in the camp, there were also other schools from different parts of Spain. The first school came from Tenerife which is one of the Canary Islands. The other school came from Sevilla, they joined us after the people from the Canaries had left. The monitors took care of us totally, there were 4 or 5 of them all around 20 or 22 years old. Every night we had a disco which was really fun. We taught the class from Sevilla and the Teneriffians how to dance our style and they showed us their ways. They were all well mannered, funny and polite. We all had a lot of fun and enjoyed ourselves. The Year 9 students would like to thank Mr. Hogan, Ms. Fairchild and Mr. Hickman for their time and supervision. Oli & Chelsea

Photographs by Olivia Kober