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Year 11 Tollymore Trip

4th Mar 2008
Year 11 Tollymore Trip

 

Year 11 Trip to Tollymore

 

On Wednesday 27th February a group of Year 11 pupils from the High School visited Tollymore Mountain Centre to take part in an outdoor challenge. The pupils were

 

Gary Elliot                              Jordan Fairley

Scott Johnston                       Laura Mills

Jamie Davidson                    Thomas Megaw

Irwin Burns                             Nicola Malcolmson  

Emma McCarrison               Joanne Waddell

Hannah McKinstrey               Kim Kennedy

Rebekah Malcolmson

 

The activities were problem solving type challenges a bit like the TV show “crystal maze” and included Team Skipping, Earth Tremor, where a structure to carry the whole team had to be built out of  telegraph poles and ropes and Piranha Walk where the team had to cross water infested with killer fish.

 

The score was one all when it came to the finale, Group Skis. In the end the Red team led by Jordan Fairley won by two clear lengths to make it 2:1 and win the overall event.

 

The group also got to meet the NI Sports Minister Edwin Poots who was visiting the centre as part of plans for a £5 million state-of-the-art new centre. The Rathfriland High Schools pupils were not distracted by the people in suits and the photographers and got on with the job in hand.

 

The pupils involved were very polite to the important guests and were up for all the challenges. They said that they would like to return to the centre and have a go on the climbing wall some day.