We dodged the rain! And it wasn’t too cold. In a repeat of a wellbeing event we ran in July for Cherwell School, last week we had 22 more students come for some relaxing time in the Woods.

The ten year 10s were brilliant - put up our new gazebo, cooked apple crumble, prepped dinner, lit the BBQ, carried firewood up the hill, built the campfire, and generally threw themselves into life in the Woods for 24 hours. We hope they benefitted from their experience.

Camp fire and marshmallows at the end of the day

They were followed by twelve year 12s who were sophisticated and interested in everything. They enthusiastically launched themselves into discussions, willing to walk and walk, and were polite and thoughtful.

Mr Littlewood taking carbon measurements with the year 12s.