Good year for Ten Tors - 19/5/10

Published: 19 May, 2010

With no interruptions to training, despite the snowy start to the year, Plymouth College's Ten Tors teams started the 2010 event strong, organised and well prepared.

Fielding 35-mile and 45-miles teams, the pupils set off on Saturday morning in good walking conditions - cold and damp!  The 45 team produced the best result for many years being the first team home on Route R at 9.28 a.m. on the Sunday morning.  The 35 team also put in a strong performance arriving back two hours later.

A further six pupils got involved in the Jubilee Challenge, the one-day event on the Saturday for young people with special needs.  The group from Plymouth College assisted a team from the Brook Green Centre, who they had been working and training with once a week since September.

With Ten Tors celebrating its 50th anniversary, staff were presented with certificates recognising ten, fifteen and twenty years of involvement in the event.  Chris Sillitoe was awarded with a bronze certificate for ten years, Lloyd Mellor bronze and silver for fifteen years and David Compton and John Arthur, who have each been training Plymouth College teams for more than twenty years, received bronze, silver and gold certificates.