Stepping Stones School for children with hemiplegia - School Trip

Day 2: Paintball, Archery and Quad biking at 3 Peaks Outdoor Pursuits Centre, Farnham

Jonathan Furness — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:10:48 +0000

Today we returned to the 3 Peaks Outdoor Pursuits centre.

Despite the soaring temperatures, we enjoyed four activities. We completed a mini zip line, much shorter and not as high at the big one, but allowed us all to have a go. We then spent the rest of the day in a large field, shooting paint balls at a target range, with ducks, buckets and targets. This was followed by archery and quad biking.

The photographs from Day 2 pretty much tells the story.

For those who might have missed them, photographs from Day 1.

Day 1: Socialising, confidence and team building exercises at 3 Peaks Outdoor Pursuits Centre, Farnham

Jonathan Furness — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:21:21 +0000

As the the end of term nears, pupils from Stepping Stones, together with friends and other family members will be enjoying two days of activities at the 3 Peaks Outdoor Pursuits centre in Farnham.

Already, the pupils have achieved:

team building challenges, mental agility challenges
night line: blind-folded, using only the rope and a buddy to be guided along a set course
low ropes
high ropes and trapeze
zip line

Staff members, Sandy Seagrove and Jonathan Furness together with the 3 Peaks centre staff, Ray and Steve made sure the day was safe and enjoyed by everyone.

The photographs from Day 1 have already been put online.

Tuesday 25th July 2006, Day 1

The pupils now look forward to day 2, where they will be firing some arrows in archery, riding Quad bikes, and paint balling (though not at each other!)

Pupils visited Thorpe Park as their end-of-term school trip

Jonathan Furness — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:18:19 +0000

Pupils from Stepping Stones school chose to visit Thorpe Park for their end-of-term trip.

Amy, Dom, Dan and Jessica accompanied by Julie, Carol, Sahar and Jonathan had a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Look at the photographs.

Apple Store School Nights success

Jonathan Furness — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:40:08 +0000

Pupils at Stepping Stones school travelled to the Apple Store in London's Regent Street. The pupils participated in only the 2nd Apple School Night event held in the UK.

The School Night event provides school pupils with an opportunity to present to a mixed audience, consisting mainly of customers, though some friends and families of the pupils were also present. Many customers stopped to watch the pupils presenting in the instore theatre space.

The main purpose of the evening, was to give our pupils opportunities to present their digital creativity work. Our pupils presented a range of applications and media, including, iMovie video projects, Flash Animations, Comic Life stories, SketchUp design projects.

Here are some photographs of our exceptionally talented pupils, on stage, microphone in hand, talking confidently about their work.

The group assemble on stage, quite nervous, but eager to talk about their work.

Amy is first to present. She presents her Sailability video.

Dominic steps up and shows some of his SketchUp 'Future School' designs.

Dan talks about how he developed his Flash Animations.

Jessica closes by presenting some Comic Life stories.

This was a fantastic experience for the pupils, and all were invited to return to the store, with their Macs to present future work in the instore theatre space. How cool!