With revived bodies and spirits, we took to the slopes before the locals on Day One. It was lovely to see students new to the sport experiencing the delights of such a beautiful environment for the first time and great to meet the team of friendly instructors on the nursery slopes for the ski test designed to ascertain ability and to ensure students hadn’t overstated their skiing experience or been too modest!

With four groups identified and teachers allocated to the groups, we took to the slopes.

All groups took to the slopes with aplomb and by the end of Day 1 the beginners had learned the basics and those with more experience had begun to explore the 65km and 1800m awe-inspiring peaks that the region had to offer.

The rest of the week on the slopes was amazing: the sun shone and the beautiful landscape offered up all sorts of exciting experiences. We were blessed with amazing weather but, more importantly, it was a delight to see all our students mucking in and making terrific progress.

And all with a collective smile on their faces!

 

 

 

As part of the wider experience, the group had opportunity to be involved in all sorts of other great experiences in the evenings, including:

• A Snow Show – a brilliant event on the floodlit slopes on the night of Fasching Tuesday (the Austrian equivalent of Shrove Tuesday) where the history of skiing was enacted and all sorts of high-level skiing and boarding was on display
• A disco – where the students with their moves and choice of tunes demonstrated for the teachers just how out of touch many of them now are…
• A beautiful horse-drawn sleigh ride through the village and local forest.

 

On the last evening, amidst all the packing and trying to work out just whose socks belonged to whom, we celebrated the week with an Awards Evening. Staff and the hoteliers as well as the coach drivers were all recognised but the focus, of course, was on the brilliance of the students. Two Skiers of the Week were identified for each group as well as an overall Skier of the Week based upon factors such as progress, attitude, and technical ability.  The winners were:

1. Hugh and Pav
2. Imogen and Eva
3. Zach and Sam
4. Felix and Reid

For his progress, good humour and support, the overall Skier of the Week was Marley.
We wish we could award everyone as it was such a great team experience and effort!
By the end of the week, a great experience had been had and the long journey home passed relatively quickly given the tiredness, relaxing satisfaction and great memories created.  Staff had kindly given up their half-term for what is a wonderful but very demanding experience but the much-appreciated celebratory communications from parents and students alike reiterated just how worth it it had all been.

We very much thank the parents for their kind words but also their support in the smooth-running of such a great opportunity.

We in particular thank the students for being so brilliant.

Please look out for Ski Trip 2026!