The Exmoor Challenge 

Last Saturday, Mr Manning and I had the absolute pleasure of accompanying our incredible Year 6 Exmoor Challengers to the annual Exmoor Challenge event. A huge well done to all the children who took part—you showed fantastic determination and team spirit. A special congratulations goes to Ebony, Emily, Cody, and Paige, who completed the full 16-mile route and earned their medals. We are so proud of you!

Exmoor Challenge Walk 2 - 11th March 

On Tuesday, our Year 6s embarked on their second Exmoor Challenge training walk. On this occasion, we drove to Black Dog, abandoned the vehicles and challenged the children to navigate us back to school. We reminded the children how to orientate their maps using a compass and then spoke about how you can use landmarks to ensure you're on the right track. The children then lead different parts of the journey in pairs and were responsible for guiding all of us to a specific point on the map. Mr Wiggans and I were incredibly impressed with how quickly the children picked up the map skills and we were even more impressed with how quickly they guided us back to school. On Tuesday (18th), the children will be collaborating with Petroc College's Outdoor Adventure course who will be teaching us more about compass bearings on Exmoor which will be wonderful preparation for the actual walk.

Well done Exmoor Challengers!