On Saturday, Ben swam his first 200 metres, which was 8 lengths of the Meadowlands swimming pool. He started off doing front crawl and then backstroke twice, but then realised he could save energy by just doing backstroke. So for the final 4 lengths, he only did backstroke. He made it look easy though and […]
For Ben’s birthday trip this year, he wanted to go camping, so we managed to get a good deal at Perran Sands Haven for the weekend before his birthday. Alex, Josh, Caleb and Sophia also camped for the weekend with us. The weather was good for the entire weekend until the Sunday afternoon when we […]
Last Saturday, Ben had to take his PJ’s to swimming and wear them in the pool. This was because they were doing the life saving part of Stage 6. They had done a bit of it before but they spent the entire lesson learning it this time, and he passed (they all did). Ben seemed […]
The weekend before last, we went camping at Whitehill Country Park which is just outside of Paignton, with Alex, Josh, Caleb and Sophia. The place was great and the weather was awesome! I had the day off work so Kelly and I arrived for 12pm (when we could setup on the pitch) and got the […]
This was Ben’s 2nd KS2 Sports Day, so he was out doing stuff all day again. The weather was dry and sunny, although very hot! In the morning, Ben played Rounders and did extremely well. He chose to do this rather than football and netball (which he did last year) and showed how good he […]
