Friends Southern Summer Events

BASE GROUP 1 –Next week you will not meet your true love but you will discover a particularly attractive courgette. This courgette will take you places you have never been before! It may lead you through a forest on a train and you will meet many ruined and destroyed bears at Audley End.

BASE GROUP 2 – Tomorrow you will find a cunning young, wise frog. It may slither away from your worries and join you on your voyage to freedom.  BEWARE: a very foolish image will interrupt your whole day it may lead you to go back and rethink, “Why did I pick up that green jelly baby and not the blue one?”

BASE GROUP 3 – Well, well, well; haven’t you been a very naughty base group this summer! You’ve deceived your fellow Quakers just to win a prize. You should be ashamed of your actions; you need to take some time to realise what you have done! (sorry)

BASE GROUP 4 – If you take up a musical instrument this week, you may become a professional basketball player. If you do not, beware of contracting a disease only to be cured by the kiss of life. Boop may dance for you, but do not encourage it- she is contagious.

BASE GROUP 5 – If you look carefully, you may find that great riches await you if you learn to do handstands. However, your parents will discourage you, and try to hinder your acrobatic dreams. Do not let them! Follow your dreams, and believe in yourself.

BASE GROUP 6 – A kind, funny base group. Astrid Corry is a great influence! Have a good day everyone.

BASE GROUP 7 – Wow! Your aura is really shining today! The triangles in your life are a positive thing! Embrace them! Love the reality of your triangular friends. They are beautiful and so are you.

BASE GROUP 8 – The planetary alignment seems to be in your favour for luuuurve. If you fancy them, go for it, trust your instincts. However, throwing small snails is not recommended. Never give up; those snails will come in handy one day, just not today my chum.

BASE GROUP 9 – Do not go outside this coming week, you might be abducted by a gang of threatening alarm clocks. They will take you to their time lair and feed you numbers. However, if you are kind and Quakerly they shall not bother thee.

Maya and Martha.

By Harry

On Tuesday, we got together to play 5-a-side football for an activity session.

After playing some matches, Jon our staff member decided that we should play a game to help us get used to passing.

What I found best was when we all had to use the ball on our team, without it being intercepted, before we could score.

By the end, instead of everybody running in and trying to score for themselves everyone started passing.

I asked Jon how he thought we’d improved after the hour. “The boys trained excellently. That routine is used by many premiership clubs and I see bright futures ahead for many of these players.”

The teams were made up of Tade, Elliot, Javan, Alfie, Harry, Jed, Ryan, Oliver, Tim and Alastair (a.k.a Alioop).

“It was fun to be outside in the sun playing with our friends,” added Tim.

By Kirsten, Katie and Alice

The trash fashion parade was a highlight of the week filled with creative chaos and colourful costumes. Everyone was involved with creating ridiculous outfits from junk and taking part in challenges to win first choice of terrific trash!

In base groups the competitors competed competitively at a series of crazy challenges including a dizzy race and spaghetti marshmallow towers both of which left spectators surprised at the range of results. Teams were scored out of ten at each challenge with the lowest and highest scores awarded on the spaghetti marshmallow challenge. Coming out victorious were base groups three and eight with themes of the Wild West and vegetables and so they were awarded first choice of materials consisting of egg boxes, tissue paper and bubble wrap.

Then costume creation began. Martha from base group three was dressed as a horse being ridden by Selma the cowgirl. She said it was ‘Swag, the horse comfortable was really uncostume [sic].’ And Kirsten from base group one whose group theme was the sea said ‘it was really good fun dressing up Jesse in tinfoil and Clingfilm’. Jesse ended up as Poseidon therefore incorporating the disco theme of myths and legends. Sam from base group six said ‘It was hard to believe it wasn’t a real elephant’. The elephant costume included four people with a complex headpiece and tail.

At the end of designing, a classy catwalk took place – rivalling Paris, Milan and Cambridge – which could also be described as chaotic but gave a chance for each base group to show off their amazing creations and strut their stuff. Favourites included peas in a pod, a remote controlled robot and a moon walking space woman. This proved to be highly amusing to crowds, however most base groups reached the end without costumes falling apart.

Other themes included vehicles, circus and weddings and the whole evening was a great success with even the staff dressing themselves up in old junk. Participants hope that something similar will happen again next year due to popularity and hilarity.