Longlands School Year 5 Journey 2025: 09/22/25

Bed time

Wait - how did that happen????

Good night all.

Movie time

Showers done, it's movie time!

This evening

Having finished dinner, the children are now back in their rooms, and are showering after a long day. Once they are ready, we will watch a film before bed time.

We have breakfast at 08:00 tomorrow, and our activities start at 09:00.

Miss Gayson's and Miss Childs groups will be caving and then doing archery while Ms Laughland's group will be hill walking.

As with today, I will try to keep you as updated as I can with these activities.

Dinner

Dinner is almost over - We've all eaten well

Toxic waste task from above

Another group doing this task:

Team building

After that, it's straight into a set of team building activities, aimed at making each of those new groups a true team.

In order to this, the children select a challenge, and then someone has to read out the instructions to the rest of the group. Then they actually have to do it.

This first one is to get the ball out of the maze, by having a person on each rope and then tilting the tray (very, very gently) to get the ball out:

While here, smaller groups have one person blindfolded and the other guides them through the laser maze. They cannot touch their friend, and must not touch the ropes (sorry, lasers) either.

In this task the children must cross via one single path that they need to figure out. Their opposite half do the same but their path is a mirror image. One wrong move and you're out!!

Finally this group are trying to remove the toxic waste from the (imaginary) shark infested lake. It's tricky when all you have is a few ropes and one step in the lake and you're a gonner:

Activity groups

It's now time to get into our activity groups, shown here with their respective leaders:

Site tour

We've been right round the site, learning all about where we can (and can't go). Here we are outside the climbing wall building:

And then we went round the rest of the building until we got to the dining room:

Site induction

It's now time for a site induction from our lead instructor, DJ:

Settling into rooms

We've now all been given our room numbers and a set of sheets etc. - so it's time to get beds made and generally settle in:

In front of the centre

As I look towards Merthyr Tydfil, the sun is shining over the hills that we will hill walk over during our stay.

Although the sun is out, it's a bit cool here right now - but the forecast shows no signs of rain before Friday.

We're here!!

And it's lunchtime

Into Wales

We're just crossing the bridge into Wales

Break over

After a welcome break, we're on our way again. The current estimate suggests that we should arrive at about 1pm, and you can still follow our progress on the tracker.