Junior Entry Activities

Junior Entry, the year group below the prep school entry year, have Wednesday afternoon activities with Mrs Haylock. Some of these are cultural, some physical, but all are informative.

Victorian Stanley Mills

The Lent term visit to Stanley Mills focussed on the developments undertaken by the manager of the Mill in the late 1870's to accelerate the profitability of the Stanley Belting business. The introduction of turbines, new products and a major advertising campaign raised the Stanley profile so that it became the pre-eminent supplier of webbing drive belts for the cotton processing industry across the British Empire.

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Dirt Detectives

Wednesday May 13th saw us being introduced to the detection work on old buildings, otherwise know as "Archaeology"! Stanley Mills ran an beginners' workshop for us, leading up to trying to establish, with various forms of evidence, what the upper floor of the West Mill was actually used for originally. Thinking caps time!

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Adrenaline junkies

On Wednesday May 6 we visited Crieff Hydro Activities Centre for a spot of adrenaline! In persistent rain, strong winds and fairly unsuitable clothing the thirteen pupils plus a visitor having a taster week, faced their inner demons on zip wires, a rock climbing wall and a high wire challenge. An hour and a half later they were cold, damp and dying to carry on!