This amateur film shows pupils from Percy Hedley School in Newcastle on holiday in Spain. The film opens on a sunny beach where a young boy is being covered with sand by another boy and a woman who is helping him. Presumably, they are children and staff from the Percy Hedley School in Newcastle. The boy tires of being covered with sand and sits up. The film cuts to another boy on all fours playing in the water as the sea rushes onto the beach, friends play in the water nearby. General...

This amateur film shows pupils from Percy Hedley School in Newcastle on holiday in Spain. The film opens on a sunny beach where a young boy is being covered with sand by another boy and a woman who is helping him. Presumably, they are children and staff from the Percy Hedley School in Newcastle. The boy tires of being covered with sand and sits up. The film cuts to another boy on all fours playing in the water as the sea rushes onto the beach, friends play in the water nearby. General views show their hotel building with palm trees outside just beyond the beach. More general views follow as more adventurous children play further out in the water supervised by a female member of staff who joins in with them. She holds on to one of the children who is less mobile than the others. General views from the camera show high-rise buildings onshore on the opposite side of the bay, along with houses and villas. The film cuts back to the staff member holding the young girl in the shallows just off the beach. A view follows of a number of sailing boats and cabin cruisers moored near a harbour wall, most of the sails on the boats are stowed away. A couple of children explore a nearby rock outcrop as they go down to the sea edge. Views show cliffs beyond where the boats are moored. The camera moves left to show a number of larger vessels as the broader view suggests all the boats are in a harbour. A view follows of a long two storey building on the quayside in the distance reminiscent of holiday apartments. General views show houses and villas built on the hillside. As the camera moves further on, fishing boats also share space in the harbour. A boy and a girl in a wheelchair have their photograph taken by a member of school staff as they pose on the quayside in front of a fishing boat. General views follow of the local landscape nearby. A boy picks up stones off the beach, he throws them into the sea. A girl joins him at the sea’s edge. General views show buildings and hills in the distance on the opposite side of the bay. The boy moves off along the beach, finding more stones to throw. A change of location as a boy poses for the camera as he sits in a go-kart. Two men stand nearby. Another man possibly from the school talks to another pupil sitting in another go-kart, he’s giving him instructions about the kart’s controls. The driver has his helmet put on, and the karts move off. One of them nearly collides with the cameraman. Out on the track, a view from a distance shows one of the young drivers crashing their car, a man runs down the track to assist. Another staff member following in another kart stops and rushes to help. The man pushes the driver back to the start and eventually, he goes off on his own, the man driving the other kart not far away. The other pupil in his kart drives past the camera, following a member of staff. Another boy gets some advice before he moves off in his kart. He in turn follows a supervisor. A change of scene as the camera captures a man ploughing with a horse between shrubs or small trees in a plantation. A group of children sit and chat amongst themselves and eat fruit on a veranda. Some of them turn to look at the camera. A girl hangs on to a railing as she climbs up some steps to joins the others on the veranda. A couple of them play cards. Outside the villa, a group of boys, play on the stone courtyard with trees nearby. The game appears to mimic a bullfight. A girl joins the group but doesn’t take part in the game. Back on the beach, a boy walks towards the camera carrying a plastic bag. He drops it and water spills out onto the sand. Some other children and members of female staff, play a game of bowls on the beach. One woman throws some balls at a target, which may be coloured balls, some of the thrown balls are obscured by sand. The group go forward to collect the balls, the same woman throws them at the target. The film cuts back to the veranda seen earlier with a close-up of some of the children’s faces, the film cuts to a group of three girls sitting and talking amongst themselves in the shade of trees below the veranda in the courtyard. Two boys sit nearby on the steps leading up to the veranda, they smile at the camera. Some boys are playing with what appear to be large table tennis paddles in the courtyard. One of them goes through a gap in the wall to look for a lost ball in the long grass beyond the wall, his opponent joins in the search. The opponent and another boy who joined in the search come back with the ball. The boy who found the ball stands with his paddle and waits for his opponent’s serve. The game is intermittent with missed shots and balls going out of bounds. A girl in a wheelchair is pushed along by a friend; two others run to catch them up. They walk along the lane that leads away from the villa. A change of view shows a boy lying on his stomach digging a deep hole in the sand with a small spade. Along with some others who also dig, under the shade of an awning on the beach. Some of the girls dig nearby. Two of the girls decide that a game of leapfrog on the beach is preferable to digging. A member of staff joins in with some of the boys digging. The film ends with one of the girls joining the boys to help dig the sand with her hands.