PUPILS at St Martin’s Ampleforth have celebrated the start of term with a variety of activities to help them settle back into school life.

The children were given the catch up with old friends and make new ones.

They practised their stealth skills in woodland sessions by dodging water pistols and started a garden design project in art club, where they expressed their landscaping ideas for a new garden area to be located outside their new permanent home on the Ampleforth College campus when they move there in the coming months.

The first weekend outing of the term was to Go Ape in Dalby Forest.

Head teacher David Moses said: “It has been a busy but fun-filled start to the new academic year and I am always amazed by the enthusiasm our children have to try something new.”

“We are very lucky to be educating children in this magnificent Ampleforth valley and we are all looking forward to sharing in many more action-packed activities as the term goes on.”