Army Trip

Visit to the Army on Wednesday 7^th March

By Robyn Smith (our Business Admin Student)

Along with Mrs Gray, Mr Burford, Miss Wright and about 30 pupils, I head off to Catterick Garrison to spend the day at the army camp. We set off at 9.00am and arrived around 9:40am, once we got there we were told what we would be doing throughout the day and were put into two teams, I decided I was going to take part!

The first activity was a 2 and a half mile run in the rain, down roads and through fields which had obstacles along the way, we had to do things such as sit ups, press ups, pull ups, climb up ropes and climb over objects. Along the way Mrs Gray, Mr Burford and Miss Wright drove behind us in a car watching us suffer and beeping if anyone started to walk!  We were then picked up and taken back by minibus and had some dinner.  After dinner the pupils took part in command tasks where they had to work together as a team and think carefully about what they had to do.  We had another short break after the command task activity then we had to put on our army green overalls and set off for another 1 and a half mile run where we had to stay in the correct order or we got shouted at.

 After the run we arrived at the assault course. Watching the demonstration made me change my mind, I didn’t want to do it anymore! However, Stacey who is a Royal Military Police Officer in the army who was working with us throughout the day made me take part! We ended up crawling through the mud, climbing over walls, running through water, rope swinging over water, walking over wooden planks which were really high, climbing down ropes and jumping onto objects over water and getting onto the other side. After we were all drenched in muddy water we walked all the way back to the room where our things were, it seemed to take forever to get there! We then cleaned ourselves up and changed into our spare clothes. We got back onto the coach at 2.30pm and head back to school. The next day I was aching everywhere! But I would definitely go back and do it all again!