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Whittwell Hall! By Maya and Sana

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!

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Whitwell Hall by Grainne and Olivia

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

We recommend you going.

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Whitwell Hall Blog    By Pierre, Luciano and Filip

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.

Come, Book, Now

 

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Whitwell Hall experience By Zuzanna

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.

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Whitwell Hall by Zioni.

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!

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Whitwell Hall Fleur and Jess

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!

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Gian and Cairon’s perspective of Whitwell Hall

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.

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YEAR 5 RESIDENTIAL TO WHITWELL HALL – by Ingrid and Theresa

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.

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Theme park by Daniel

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.

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