PUPILS from Mount House School in Tavistock spent a night camping on Dartmoor recently at the isolated site of Nun's Cross Farm.

As the farm is only accessible by four-wheel drive vehicles, the 50 pupils started their adventure by carrying all the camping gear and provisions 800 metres from the drop-off point to the farm itself.

Their next task was to put up the tents in the dark. Sleeping bags and roll mats were laid out and eventually the children settled into bed with some food for a midnight feast.

The following morning they enjoyed a breakfast of bacon and sausages in a roll, washed down with hot chocolate before playing a game of 'Catch the Flag', which involved clambering over dry-stone walls and ditches.

The pupils all pitched in to clear up before setting off on a walk along the Devonport Leat that supplied Plymouth with much of its drinking water during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.