A leading boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 12-18 in Perthshire, Scotland
Junior Entry, the year group below the prep school entry year, have Monday afternoon activities with Mrs Haylock. Some of these are cultural, some physical, and all are informative.
We love to visit the castle in Perth and listen to the narration of sterling battles both against the English in the seventeen hundreds as well as other armies in South Africa, Korea and Europe in the two World Wars. This year's cohort were no different to their fore-runners in admiring the artefacts on view - medals, rifles, Regimental silver, and Earl Wavell's equipment and uniforms.
Junior Entry visited Drummond Safari Park near Stirling where the Birds of Prey were a huge attraction. Sea Eagle fans, check out the adult female trapping a lure. And the barn owl...!
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Mr Nichols, Outdoor Activities co-ordinator, and total outdoors fan, also took the pupils on a very wet afternoon's gorge-walking. A bit of a misnomer, since they seem to have done this in a river! Walking IN water, then!
Photos at Link to photos, galleries called "jesafaripark" and "jegorgewalking".
Nestling on the southern bank of the River Tay, just east of the motorway bridge leading into Perth and Edinburgh is Elcho Castle, the main part of which remains particularly complete and inviting.
The castle keeper hosted Junior Entry and led them on a short and informative tour of all three floors and out onto the "balcony" which was somewhere just short of eighty feet above the ground! The surrounding countryside was laid open to view from this lofty elevation.
After their tour, ice cream and sweet lollies were enjoyed by all! Next task is to write a ghost story, creating a mythical tragedy within the castle.
This 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.
We were 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!
Recently 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!
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