Category: South Africa Rugby Tour

Day One/Two

Our senior rugby players are now enjoying the excellent facilities and accommodation of Pretoria’s High Performance Centre (HPC) where they have completed their first training session under lights this evening.  Coach Lee Hogarth was delighted with the boys saying, “Attitude, workrate and creativity were in abundance and the boys are raring to go in their […]

Pre-tour training

Last week, our Senior rugby players took part in their final training session before they head off to South Africa. Here are a few shots from the training session.  

Ready and raring to go

There is huge excitement amongst our senior rugby players just ahead of departure for their twelve day tour to South Africa.  The tour party consists of a large squad of 42 players comprising our successful first team and a development squad of emerging players. The players, staff and parent supporters make their way to London Heathrow this […]

Day 5: Kennedy Space Center (Tuesday 30 June)

During day five of the USA trip, we visited the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral for most of the day. On this scientific visit we had the privilege to see the Atlantis Orbiter shuttle that has been into space an amazing 37 times and has the ability to make it up there again repeatedly. […]

Kennedy Space Center

Day 4: Aquatica (Monday 29 June)

Unusually today we got a lie in until 8am, strange considering Mr Smith had planned the schedule. We travelled to Aquatica via the I-Ride Trolley Buses. Once there we went through bag checks and finger scans. Everyone then went and did their own thing including, vertical droppers, wave pools and dinghy slides. Unfortunately after only […]

Day 3: Animal Kingdom (Sunday 28 June)

We woke up for breakfast at 7:00. By 7:45 we were all on the bus and raring to go. We got off the bus, had our bags checked and passed though security. We then split up into our two groups and met out group leaders. Our leaders handed us with ear pieces and radios so […]

Our first few days

Day 2: Disney’s Magic Kingdom (Saturday 27 June)

After waking up and having an early breakfast we headed off to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. We met Rebecca, our YES (Youth Education Service) programme tour guide. Today’s programme was different than the first, as today’s programme involved physics, focusing on the properties of motion. This wasn’t the typical classroom style of study; this incorporated analysing three variations of roller […]

Day 1: Epcot (Friday 26 June)

After waking from a 6 hour sleep, we were presented with a waffle machine for breakfast… A new encounter for most of the party. After a short breakfast time off we went to the EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow) centre, a place where ‘imagineers’ imagined and invented our futures, something we could never imagine […]