Sts Peter and Paul Catholic College: Skiing

Life is richer at Sts Peter and Paul!

Life is richer at Sts Peter and Paul!

Welcome to the official blog created by students to chronicle their experiences during Enrichment Weeks.

On these pages you’ll find personal accounts from our students discussing the wide range of activities they enjoyed both in college and off site.

Visits included residential trips to Iceland with the Geography department, France with the History department and Barcelona with the Maths department. Year 10 and 11 students will visited New York with the Business Studies teachers, while English staff and students explored creative writing skills in locations as diverse as Florida and Yorkshire, where students worked alongside a poet, a novelist and a playwright to set their imaginations on fire.

Back at College, students will take part in retreats to explore and deepen their faith. They will hear from inspirational speakers, attended careers workshops and take part in a host of music, dance and drama activities.

Our College Principal, Wendy White, said, “Enrichment Week is a fantastic opportunity for students to broaden their horizons and learn outside the classroom. It is experiences like these which testify to the diverse, exciting and challenging curriculum at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic College, and how we focus on the development of the whole child.”

Daily updates from home and abroad will allow students to record and share their memorable learning experiences with family and friends.

We hope that you enjoy reading about our experiences on these pages as much as we have enjoyed putting them together.

Look out for the next instalment of the blog following Enrichment Week in July 2015….

Friday 14 February 2014

Skiing - Day 5

This morning we woke up to heavy snow storms and horrendous winds. Once we arrived on the slopes it was very hard to ski and after catching a ski lift to the top it was so cloudy we could barely see the rest of our group. After quite a few falls from Sean Glover and a lot of laughing, Holly Quinn skied over a fence and over the edge of a slope into a huge pile of snow, Sean Glover found this hugely hilarious, however when Hannah Sorvel tripped Sean Glover up (by accident) and both of his skis fell off he was not a happy bunny. After Sean lay on the side of the mountain for what felt like weeks, ski instructor Sam tried to give him a helping hand with getting his skis on. After about 10 minutes Sean was up on his feet and skiing down the mountain with the rest of the group. After this incident the wind was stronger then ever and Jake Burns complained his face was sore. The wind kept blowing Niamh Littler down the hill. Ski instructor Sam tied peoples skicks together and in pairs we had to ski down the hill Hannah Sorvel and Sam the ski instructor went first and Hannah Sorvel fell backwards down the hill. After skiing we took a trip to speed mountain (a roller coaster in the snow). When it started it was all going great until Mr Boulton got stuck in a pile of snow. It was great fun.

See you soon

Hannah Sorvel, Niamh Littler, Kerrie-Ann Smith