PGL Little Canada Friday 12 th – Monday 15 th June 2015 For more information about Little Canada, go to: .

PGL Little CanadaFriday 12th – Monday 15th June 2015

For more information about Little Canada, go to:

www.pgl.co.uk/littlecanada

Agenda

• Medicines • Travel – to the Isle of Wight• Accommodation• Facilities• Activities• Catering and diet• FAQs• Travel - home• Questions

Medicines

•Medicines can be brought into school the week after SATs (Monday 18th May).•Please leave at the office and Miss Green will collect them in.•Include extra travel sickness tablets! We may need them whilst in the Isle of Wight, as well as for the journeys there and back!.•All parents needed to have signed the medicines form.•Please label clearly with your child’s name.

Travel - Outbound

Travel times (Still to be confirmed with the centre, more details when times confirmed):

• Leaving Alston School at 8:15 (TBC) – please be here by 8am at the very latest. Please allow the coach room to pull up outside the school gates. Travel sickness – tablet at home first please!

• Bus to Portsmouth (approx. 3 ½ hours)• Lunch and visit historic ships in Portsmouth harbour.• Ferry to Isle of Wight – 2:30pm (approx)• Arrive at centre – 3:30 pm (approx)• Group call text on arrival

Travel - Food

• Please provide for …• Lunch – Normal packed lunch

• Include extra drinks … small cartons and plastic bottles are best – no fizzy or sports drinks please!

• A sensible amount of sweets• Any spare food will be taken off the children on

arrival, so only pack what you know they will eat!

Travel - Activities

• Remember once the main suitcase/bag is under the coach, the children will have no access to it until they arrive.

• We suggest 2 bags on the coach, one for food and one with ‘entertainment’ – books, camera, a few sweets, pens etc

• Tissues, a small pillow to make life more comfortable!

Little Canada Accommodation

• Accommodation is in log cabins.

• Each cabin houses between 4-8 children.

• Many of the log cabins have recently been updated and refurbished.

• The cabins are grouped together in small villages.

Catering & dietary needs

• 3 nutritious, balanced

meals per day• Salad bar• Vegetarian option• Special diets catered

for by prior

arrangement

Little Canada Facilities

• High and low ropes courses• Abseiling towers • Archery range• Giant swing • Creek • Beaches in the local vicinity• Indoor swimming pool• Sports hall• Shop• Disco• Ball sports area

Isle of Wight Draft ItineraryFriday 12th June 2015•Tour of facilities•Unpacking and settling in•Evening entertainment

Saturday 13th June 2015•AM – Visit to Osborne House

(Queen Victoria’s countryretreat)

•PM – Beach (Weather permitting)•Evening activities TBC

Sunday 14th June 2015•AM – Adventure activities on site TBC•PM – Excursion to Alum Bay

(Glass & sweet making)•Evening activities TBC

Monday 15th June 2015•AM adventure activities on site TBC•Leaving after lunch (2pm approx)

FAQ’s

What to take with you:• Valuable items – best left at home• Leigh clothing list! This will be provided nearer the date of the trip, but there is a list on the back of the brochure you have been given.• Pocket money – Around £25. Children will be given opportunities to go to the shop at Osborne House and when in Alum Bay.

Travel – Return Journey

Travel times:

Monday 15th June• Leaving Little Canada after morning adventure

activities and lunch provided by PGL.• Approx. arrival at Alston School is between 7pm

and 8pm. (A group call text will be sent late Monday afternoon with a more accurate time.)

• Please be at school on time to collect your child.

Thank you

Are there any questions?