Market Place
This game consists of doing challenges for Sr Joy Raynor who would then give us a certain amount of house points for each challenge. During this game we did tasks such as: a group photo, drawing a picture of Dovedale House with charcoal and for 500 house points we had to take a photo of a bunny in the garden. For our group photo we went to the fire pit.
House Points
During camp you win house points for various different things such as games, helping the leaders and holding open a lot of gates when we are on walks! By the end of the week each team will have accumulated an amount of points and the team with the highest amount of points wins Summer Camp that year.
Team Grimm
Godly Play
Our group were given a parable and a script with an explanation of the parable on it. Each group was given a box with the equipment used to carry out the Godly Play. The audience would interact with the group carrying out the Godly Play by answering questions and suggesting their ideas about the parable. The group would act out the parable using the equipment, such as figures to allow the audience to think about the parable more easily.
Singing/Drama with Br James Woolford
On Monday, James arrived as a leader for the next two days. After Monday morning's Godly Play session we were all given a singing workshop by him. It consisted of singing some classic sea shanties as well as a very well known Moravian hymn with separate parts for the boys and girls. The following morning we also played games in the field, and these games were all designed with the idea of building drama skills. One game, for example, involved the campers introducing the person next to them as the world's greatest at something, then they would have to pretend to act like they really are the world's greatest! From what had been a tiring few days, James knew very well how to wake us up! When we went to Drayton Manor on the Wednesday it wasn't unusual for the campers to break into song, sometimes even during the roller coaster rides!
Team Aesop
Activities
During the day we play loads of fun games in our house groups. This year these are based on authors that go with our theme, 'Telling Tales'. One of the main games that we played was 'capture the flag' which we did after tea on Tuesday. We all had a great night!
Drayton Manor
On Wednesday we travelled to Drayton Manor Theme Park. Juniors and Seniors split up and the Juniors stayed with the leaders whereas the Seniors got to go around the park by themselves. We went on every ride we saw and had a nice lunch together. After that we went on a water ride (Storm Force 10) and got soaked. We soon dried up as the sun was out and it was warm.
Team Dahl