Year 8 Ski Visit

A total of 103 pupils and 11 staff from 4 different schools took part in the Birmingham Consortium 2018 Ski Visit to Torgon, Switzerland. This included  30 of our Year 8 students, Mrs Currie, Mr Steele and Miss Wattison. We arrived to huge amounts of snow and beautiful skiing conditions. Girls took part in 5 days of skiing as well as the evening activities of a climbing wall, torchlight walk and a roller disco. All skiing groups made determined efforts to progress and make it to being able to ski in France and go on the 4 person chair lift to the top of the Portes du Soleil ski area, with girls amazed at the breath-taking views from the top. It was lovely to see huge amounts of collaboration and support across the schools and lots of smiley faces after a hard days skiing each day. Girls were asked what they were most proud of and what they would remember at the end of the week:

“The thing I am most proud of this week is that I had resilience and never gave up.”

“I am proud of my confidence to try new things and just have a go at every opportunity.”

“I am proud that I pushed myself to keep trying and my confidence to meet and speak to new people.”

“I am proud of being able to make new friends from different schools.”

“I am proud of the new skills that I have learnt such as independence and organisation.”

“I am most proud of overcoming my fears like of heights and falling, I am also proud of being determined and motivated.”

“That I could make friends without the need of phones all the time, I will be less reliant on my devices.”

“I am proud of being able to be so far away from my family for such a long time.”

“I am going to remember the view from the top and the feeling of going fast down the mountain the most, like flying.”

“It was a beautiful experience with jaw dropping views and I got to go on the chair lifts up to the top of the mountain.”

Along with a whole lot of skiing, we saw kindness, support, friendship, determination, perseverance, emotional development, resilience, organisation, motivation, responsibility, independence, I could go on – a brilliant brilliant week, well done all, you should be incredibly proud of yourselves for your achievements throughout the week!