Organized jointly by members of the Methodist Churches in Mossley and Hurst and supported by a Holiday Activity Grant from T3SC.

Fifty children attended the ‘Pyramid Rock’ holiday club at Mossley Methodist Church from 15^th to 19^th August 2011.

All of the children were given a bright yellow T-shirt with the ‘Pyramid Rock’ logo - and lots of opportunities to have fun through games, craft, drama and music as well as plenty of activities with an Egyptian theme. 

The children were put into teams, which they themselves named: ‘The Crazy Camels’; ‘Ketchup’s Kids’; ‘The Mad Mummies’; ‘Cleopatra’s Pyramids’ and ‘The Dream Team’.  

‘Please Mr Crocodile can we cross the river?’ was a particularly popular game. The craft activities included decorating gingerbread figures of Joseph so that they were each wearing a multi-coloured coat.

Throughout the week those present explored the Biblical story of Joseph. Joseph was given a multicoloured coat by his father, this made his brother’s jealous so they sold him into slavery. Following this he had quite an adventure in Egypt eventually becoming the Prime Minister. In this role he saved his brothers lives during a time of famine and was reconciled with his family.

A news report about the life of Joseph was read each day by a ‘superhero’ puppet called Captain Ketchup, who introduced the children to different characters from the story.

Each morning there was an episode of the drama entitled ‘The adventures of Doctor Potty’ - he was a mad archaeologist who, along with his niece, Denise, was trying to solve the riddle of ‘the relic with the missing onion shaped piece’. 

The children’s favourite songs included ‘God’s people aren’t superbrave, superheroes’; ‘A naggy mum, a grumpy dad’; ‘May you find peace’ and the Pyramid Rock theme song, ‘We’re gonna swim up the Nile ’.

On the Tuesday we invited all of the children’s’ families to stay at the church for lunch – the catering team excelled themselves serving up hot dogs and dessert for 100 people.