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Whitwell Hall! by Chiara and Cristine

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Cristine and Chiara.
Whiewell Hall
Our favourite part about Whitwell hall was the fire lighting because of the lovely sparks lifting up like stars! And the marsh mellows where so melty soft and so warm and they oozed out whenever you took a big bite out of them like melted cheese so good.

And Paula’s amazing cooking was just 10 out of ten, delicious and tasty the best food ever was the lasagne and BBQ I mean you CANNOT disagree it was the tastiest ever food and especially donuts the sticky chocolate donuts and the warm sugary donuts so yummy I can’t resist it!

Cristine’s best activities were the bat walk and manhunt.

Chiara’s best activities are pond dipping and in my small group we caught some tiny silver fish and then we spotted a big orange & red maybe maroon.

We made this yummy drink, called blorange – a mixture of blackcurrant and orange. It’s delicious and well recommended.

if you enjoy nature please head onto… Whitwell Hall.

Whittwell Hall! By Maya and Sana

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One of our favourite parts about our trip to Whitwell Hall was the Bat walk because we saw lots of cool bats especially the common pipistrelle! They’re the size of a thumb! And can eat up to 3,000 little insects in one day. It was very hard to find bats as they are scared of the light of the torches. We really liked the trackers that we were given the trackers showed the sound of the bats wings and the sound there voice.

Another one of our favourite activities was the Nature Walk because we made a really nice woodland out of stones, leaves, weeds, twigs and moss. We made a Fairy garden. There was a lake and a bridge made out of twigs.

We both liked river dipping because we both found really cool creatures in the River Blackwater such as: cray fish, different types of fish, mini water stick insects and lots of other creatures in the river. We liked it a lot because we got to go into the river with the net!

Thank you to John, Kathy, Steve and Matt for taking good care of us at Whitwell Hall. It would not have been an amazing time without you all!

Whitwell Hall by Grainne and Olivia

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We both loved Whitwell Hall and we hope we can go again.

We recommend you going.

Whitwell Hall Blog By Pierre, Luciano and Filip

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To get to Whitwell, we took a coach. When we arrived, we had to grab people’s luggage and put it in the main hall. Then they talked about the rules, and then did a fire drill test.

After that, we had lunch. It was pouring with rain and we got soaked to the brim! We started our first activity, shelter building! We made a very successful shelter since we had no water coming through, we also built some bear traps which included a spike to stab the bear and a mud stick man to head-butt the tree.

Next we did orienteering. In this activity we had to certain destinations to find numbered poles.

When the rain died out, we went back in the hall and took our waterproofs off, as we warmed up inside. Then, we all got called for dinner and had the best spaghetti bolognaise EVER!

After dinner we went to our dormitory for free time, and we stayed up until 2 am making very funny memes.

The next day they called us outside and said we had to do a roll call so when there was a fire we knew if everyone was there. Then we did a nature walk around Whitwell’s woodland, then after that, we built our own mini rafts/boats and got to colour them in.

At lunch we ate sandwiches at a picnic.

After lunch we did river dipping and caught a freshwater sea nymph and two freshwater trout!

After the activity we did fire lighting which was our favourite subject. In fire lighting we learnt different ways to light a fire. One of them is finding dry wood for the fire. Next we had to get special hay and set it alight and Pierre was the master at the fire lighting!

So that was the end of the second day.

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Whitwell Hall experience By Zuzanna

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From my experience at Whitwell Hall,

I think it is a very nice place to stay if you want to explore more in the wilderness. I really enjoyed the food such as, the crisps, pizza, the donuts and the toast,

Although all the beds aren’t as good quality as the bunk beds, the beds were very comfy. We also had a barbeque there and we had burgers hotdogs and ice cream! It was very delicious.

At night a lot of bats appear (normally pipistrelles) they looked so small and were very quick. We also did activities which were very fun and my favourites were boat building, shelter building, river dipping and fire lighting, at night, the stars are amazing there and very mesmerizing, and the moon is like a huge lamp with stars dancing around it.

Whitwell Hall by Zioni.

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Whitwell Hall
Hello my name is Zioni and I’m going to talk about my school trip to Whitwell Hall and talk about the most fun parts and activities!

So one thing about Whitwell Hall, I liked is the food it was delicious. One time we had pizza for lunch, and ice cream for dessert. It was great.

One of my favourite activities were fire lighting because we got to roast marshmallows and they were great and on the last night of our stay we got to roast marshmallows around a campfire and played a game called zombie in the meadows and one more thing I liked were the doughnuts we had after the barbecue.

So those are some of the things I liked about my school trip. Thank you for listening – bye!

Whitwell Hall Fleur and Jess

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Whitwell hall
Residential
By Fleur and Jess

Fleur
To get to Whitwell it took about 40 minutes

jess
When we got to our dorms, we got out our sleeping bags and everything else. The beds were super cosy.

Fleur: on the first night we had meat balls and they were so delicious my favourite desert was fruit salad

Jess : we went on a bat walk and we had these devices
And we could hear the eco of the bats

Fleur: we did so many activities such as smashing shelter building fun fire light and in the evenings we played games and had a camp fire

Both: Don’t miss your chance BOOK NOW!!! Bye!

Gian and Cairon’s perspective of Whitwell Hall

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This is Gian and Cairon. This is what we think about Whitwell Hall. Our first activity was shelter building. Shelter building was the one of the ones I didn’t like, we got really muddy and Gian is kind of a germ phobic and I think the others didn’t like it as well. Next one was orienteering. It was very hard and everyone found one clip which was sad.

Lunch now, we had our packed lunches and for dinner/tea we had meatball with pasta.

Next day, for breakfast we had cereal and toast (it’s the same breakfast each day).

First activity was pioneering I forgot what I did in that so I will skip that. We will say my favourite activities. River dipping was our favourite, we had to go in the river and catch little creatures or big like the fresh water crayfish or a trout. Our second favourite was team building. We had to play a game called shipwreck, we had to go on a tarp and jump to the other one but then the other tarp would get smaller so we had to either bunch together or sacrifice. Our third favourite was fire lighting. We collected wet sticks and then John gave us dry wood and matches to light it so we could toast marshmallow.

Ok Bye now.

YEAR 5 RESIDENTIAL TO WHITWELL HALL – by Ingrid and Theresa

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Hi I’m INGRID and I‘m THERESA and today we’re going to tell all of you about our residential to Whitwell hall in Reepham (pronounced Reefham). Whitwell Hall is a great place to stay with high quality meals cooked by the one and only Paula. Some of the activities we did were orienteering , river dipping where you catch bugs with nets in a river and you can also learn how to light a fire with a man called John. Whitwell Hall lies amongst 40 acres of astonishing Norfolk countryside view. If you like wildlife and fun holidays we definitely recommend Whitwell Hall. It has three campsites and several dormitories that include bunk beds!

Did you know in 1874 there was a fire at the hall? It has been rebuilt and modernized to make the perfect meeting room and also good for having someone read to you and your friends a bedtime story as it can fit lots of people. Whitwell hall is over a 100 years old which means it is a historic building.

For activities we did shelter building , natural art and pioneering just to name a few. During pioneering a dog left its owner’s side and came to us (he loves attention he can scent it from faraway). His name is Ollie but we called him Timothy Doodar.

Whitwell Hall is an amazing place to stay so book now, we’ll be waiting for you.

Theme park by Daniel

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This summer holiday I had the best time at the Russian theme park and probably the best day ever. I went on the first roller coaster which was yellow and was named Dragon. As soon as I went on the roller coaster I felt my stomach telling me something bad but the roller coaster already zoomed off into the distance. After the roller coaster my head felt like it was completely destroyed and crushed. The next roller coaster or tower roller coaster was a red one. It was a tower that had a round seating area which was located around the tower. When I first got on it the microphone said 3 2 1 gooooooo and the seating area blasted off like a rocket. I was scared but the view was nice.

Whitwell Hall by Gavin

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Whitwell Hall

When I arrived at Whitwell, we did a lot of fun actives like fire lighting, making actual fire with marshmallows and shelter building – making a shelter to survive in the wild. I also liked campfire because I burned them that made them delicious mm yummy.

Another thing I liked was sleeping because we get to choose who you get to sleep with – it was fun. There is one more thing I liked doing which was nature art because we used materials from nature and what we made was a campfire with gigantic logs.

Whitwell Hall is the place I recommend you to go.

The story of Whitwell Hall by Louis and Frankie

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Come visit Whitwell Hall – a beautiful place to see wild life. When you go you will see foxes, badgers and rabbits,
deer. Frogs can even get in your bathroom and beetles being put down by mites.

When you go on a nature you will be looking and hugging trees. You will also be doing bridge building that is very fun but if you win make sure you go crazy [don’t forget].

When you go for dinner your food will be amazing [cooked by Paula and Emily
you will see crayfish . Fun fact all the non-native crayfish]. killed the native crayfish. You will go fire lighting with John and roast marshmallows on your very own fire.

When they’re passing out the drink, make sure you have a mix of blackcurrant and orange. We called it blorange .

You might do a bat walk you will have a chance to use a bat detector hopefully you will find or see bats they fly so low and hopefully hear there echoes they are all different. Also bats are the only flying mammals at the moment they are also so special because there wings are so thin bats are the size of your thumb.

Whitwell is AWESOME!

Theo – Kelling Heath

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Hi! On the last week of the summer holidays I went to Kelling Heath. It was amazing.
At Kelling you will never be bored. There is football, tennis, and fencing just to name a few!
Not only does Kelling Heath have a campsite, it also has multiple spacious nightjars and woodland lodges.
Kelling Heath has amazing facilities and the showers are nice and warm!
The sports are very well taught and are really fun. Like I said before you will never be bored at Kelling as just down the road you can find a train station and Holt. The Heath is very near the coast so you can go for a swim on a hot day.
In the village Centre there is two swimming pools [one inside one outside] and has a pizza hut. Furthermore, there is a band stand that bands play on at night.
If you fancy somewhere new? Then Kelling’s the place for you!

Alvie – Whitwell Hall

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Hi! I hope you are having a great time wherever you are.

Last week I went to Whitwell Hall with my year. At the moment I am in Year 5. At Whitwell Hall we did things like: River dipping, den building, a nature walk, natural art and building a bridge. And that’s just the start of all the fun activities we did together.

The bedrooms are cool too.

This is what Whitwell Hall looks like

Picture taken from: https://www.countrysideclassroom.org.uk/places/3445

WHITWELL HALL – Kacper

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WHITWELL HALL
By Kacper

Hi, in Whit well Hall you can do lots of cool activities like campfire, (with marshmallows) and you will also make a campfire yourself later on. You will also do nature walk and you will learn how to check how to know how old are trees and what time do plants/trees grow.

Before you go to bed you will be able to see, hear and learn about bats, bats are as small as your thumb! But when they take their wings out their 30cm. Did you know bats eat around 3,000 insects in 24 hours!!!

On the first day when you’re at Whitwell Hall you get your own packed lunch to eat but later on the other 3 days you get delicious food like hotdogs. Hamburgers, gazania, and meatballs for dinner but in the morning you get to choose some cereal you can choose corn flakes or this really nice and delicious rice cereal don’t worry if you have any allergies because if you do they have special food for you.

You will also do boat racing with your friends – you will need to build a boat not like a BIG BIG, BIG boat like a little boat out of wood to race your boat you will race near a bridge.

Whitwell Hall -Lily and Imogen

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Whitwell Hall

Lily
My favourite part of our trip was fire lighting because we got to roast marshmallows. I also like the nature art. We made an elephant out of twigs and leaves and Imogen found a snail and we named it Jeffery Basil.
I would highly recommend going here I learnt so much!

Imogen
My favourite part was Paula’s cooking she was amazing at making food all my friends wanted seconds. I loved when we played manhunt in the dark next to the tents (even though I’m scared of the dark.)
Thanks so much Paula john and Matt for keeping care of us for that long!

George and Hugo – Whitwell Hall

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Hello! Last week we went to Whitwell Hall. We had loads of fun, we really enjoyed the activities but we mostly enjoyed these four.

One of them is pond dipping because you could catch lots of fish like Crayfish, Water Boatmen and lots of other species.

One of the other activities is natural art because it was creative and fun.

The last two we liked were orienteering and bridge-building because bridge-building challenged us all to build it quickly and work as a team also orienteering was fun because it was raining so it made us to put ourselves to the test. It was also fun to share a bunk bed with our friends and a room together.

And a special mention to Paula for her delicious food.

An overall rating is a 10/10 from us.

Thank you for all the staff to help us through the trip so thank you John, Cathie, Steve and Matt.

Theo – Whitwell Hall

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Hi! Last week we went to Whitwell Hall and it was amazing!
We did lots of activities such as: boat building, shelter building and the nature walk just to name a few.
The thing I enjoyed the most, was the food as it was very good. We had meatballs and pasta for dinner on the first day, it was fantastic!
Also, the beds were really good and comfy.
I loved the activities they were brilliant!
My personal favourite activity was shelter-building because I love building and you can do that in the wild with only a tarpaulin and rope. Furthermore, I liked the fire lighting because now I know how to light a fire properly.
The thing I have learnt from Whitwell is that there is more to our world than just parks, shops and festivals so you can go outside and play in parks but you can also go on walks and build shelters.
A special mention to John, Cathie, Steve, Paula and Mat for helping us to have more fun at Whitwell Hall!