Co-curricular: Outdoor Education

Hill walking, camping, and mountain biking are popular activities with the boys. Popular yearly trips include:

• Camping at Ru'a Fiola, Meigle and Blakerston
• Hill walking and Night Hikes
• Loch Inch Water Sports activity weekend
• Dalguise Outdoor Pursuits weekend
• SU weekend at Glen Shee
• Camping and BBQs in Pringle Secret Garden

As boys move up the School they are able to participate in the popular Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.

Accounts of examples of trips appear below.

First Form Loch Tay Trip

The First Form went to Loch Tay for two days.

The Crannog

We arrived at the Historic crannog at 11.45am. We then visited the crannog which was a prehistoric loch dwelling built on top of the water. It was dark, cold and smelly used by the Celts in the Iron Age. Outside we learned how to make fires, grind wheat to make flour, make holes in stones and carve wood like they would have in the olden days.

Water Sport

At Loch Tay there were water sports such as banana boating (which is riding on an inflated giant banana, which had enough room for five people) and kayaking (which is sitting in a small boat with an ore on both sides) the aim was to capsize everyone else .

Loaningdale Camp

On Saturday J4/5 and 1st Form boarders and all of the Second and Third Form went to an an outdoor centre near Biggar called Loaningdale. In our free time we would go and play football matches against another team. Then we were sorted into the seven groups that we were going to do the activites in. We went through health and safety and then we went and did ice breakers which help you get to know each other better and make you work as a team. After that all the groups went off to do their different activites: Ropes course when you had to walk and climb along ropes; cat walk when you went up a tree walked along a log and went back into the middle and jumped off; crate climb where you had to climb up crates without them toppling; archery; pole climb where you had to climb a pole and jump and touch a ball; abseiling where you had to abseil down a sort of tower and finally problem, solving where you had to solve loads of problems as a group.

I think one of the favourite activites was the cat walk and abseiling, but
they were all great. I am sure that everybody had a great time and we would
like to thank all the staff for making this trip possible.

by Adam