LAHORE: Beaconhouse Margalla Islamabad International Baccalaureate branch arranged a retreat for its first and second year students.
The activity ‘Back to Nature’ took place at Moor Jang, Kalar Kahar, where teachers and the students stayed at camps in wilderness for three days. The objective of the retreat was to make students perform creativity, activity and service activity; a core component of the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma programme.
The students hiked uphill to conduct rappelling, an exercise in which they moved down a steep incline by means of a double rope secured above and paid out gradually in the descent. At base camp they also had a chance to cut and collect wood logs for campfire, and learnt about types of wood suitable for fire.
On the second day, students built their own rafts in two groups and tested them for rafting down the hill in a serene fresh water pond. This creative activity was, ‘once in a life time chance’ elaborated few students. Students conducted the third strand Service on the third day, where in two groups they went to the nearby village school.
At the school, the groups had arranged a variety of activities for the students like poster making and an informative talk on pollution, personal hygiene, sports, and discipline. Students also carried out enjoyed cliff crossing as the last activity of exhilarating extreme retreat.
