SKI PRESENTATIONS

It is very important for us that students develop technique in skiing and have a strong awareness of how to do the sport safely. This progression is recognised by the ESF presentation when all students receive their awarded level and badge and each instructor explains why, and what they would do in the future to move beyond this.

EXTRA PHOTOS!

We hope that these extra photos will give even more of a flavour of the week...the teamwork, the environment, the severe conditions, the many different activities and most of all the levels of achievement and pure enjoyment!

All photos will be available to students on SABER in the next week.

MARMIE!

Yes, it's confirmed..."Marmie" the Marmotte is having his own official blogging post! His iconic status has become second to none and this week he has skied virtually every slope whilst under the nurturing care of a student.

Marmie joined the SJ Ski Trip some years ago and has become an important feature ever since. He is awarded to a student each day as a reward for showing a particularly positive approach and often very kind and caring behaviour towards others. Each award winner then looks after the loved, cuddly fellow for the next 24 hours!

THURSDAY 29TH

A fantastic time was had by all at outdoor ice skating last night with SJ students racing for the fastest lap time, attempts at backwards skating and best tricks on the ice! Overnight the snow just flurried down leaving us with a minimum of 10cm+ of fresh snow. At the moment (lunchtime) this is continuing making perfect conditions for skiing as well as the odd snowball fight. Tonight sees the return of the long awaited, internationally-recognised music quiz and karaoke! Young and old will battle it out over a wide selection of music clips and categories before exercising the vocal chords...hopefully there will be no repeat of a staff Spice Girls attempt this year!

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY 30TH

With the snow building considerably in resort we will now be departing 3 hours earlier. This will facilitate the journey giving the drivers greater time to make the descent out of resort.

It is predicted that we we return to school earlier than planned although it is difficult to predict this exactly until we are on route. We will be asking students to contact home when we have a better idea of the estimated time of arrival.

To add to this previous message, these photos of the last two days show the level of snow that arrived in one huge storm. However, they fail to really portray the combination of the very cold temperatures accompanied by very strong and biting winds. The whole party did exceptionally well to cope with this. In fact, it is worth comparing this first shot taken on day 3 with those taken on Thursday and Friday...in the final photo the shapes behind are several cars!

(Another couple of posts will be added tomorrow with extra photos...keep looking.)