Amazing Animations

Our animations about camp are finished and we held our world premier in class this afternoon. Now it is your turn to get to watch them, we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them and as always we would love to hear your comments.

Raft Building

The Mudslide

The Muddy Challenge

Kayaking

The Hydroslide

The Flying Fox

The Burma Trail

The Flying Fox

Muddy verse

We have been writing free verse about our experience on the mudslide at camp. Check out some of our poems below and please don't be afraid to leave us a comment.

Some pictures from our time at camp

Here are some of the pictures of our adventures at camp. We all had a great time and will be sharing more about it when we are back in school after the Easter holidays.

Personalize a free scrapbook

Watch our rafts in action

We thought you might like to watch us in action. Here's a little video of us building and trying out our amazing rafts. It was a real blast and every raft made it out to the platform across the lake and back in the end. 

Our rafts

Raft making was a great success with some amazing crafts built and successfully sailed across the pond. There were quite a few squeals and lots of laughter.

We're building rafts!

We are currently at the rafting lake working in teams to try and make a raft to get to the other side. I wonder if our ideas will work!

An action packed day!

We've been having a blast! Yesterday we had a go on the hydroslide, the mud slide, kayaks and the flying fox. Everyone has their own favourites and we will share some writing about them when we get back to school. To whet your appetite here's a picture of us trying to raft up on the kayaks.

What a day!

Well it's been a busy first day for Room 8 at camp! We set off from school at 9:30 and headed to the Hakarimata Ranges for a lovely bush walk. It was a hard climb up but the view from the top made it totally worth while.


From there it was off to camp to set up our bunk rooms and a bit of a orienteering. Then we headed up into the bush chapel to present and sign our class treaties. It was a lovely place to share and to sing some songs. Here's a little video of us singing one of our songs.

Tonight we have split into two groups and Room 8, Room 9 and Room 10 made some little candle boats which we then floated on the boating lake.


Tomorrow we start on our main activities so check back tomorrow to see how we went.

We are off!

Here we all are ready to go off to camp! Wish us luck!

Off to camp

Room 8 are off on camp on Monday to Ngaruawahia Christian Youth Camp. We are all pretty excited about what's in store for us. We will be testing ourselves on the flying fox, mudslide and hydro slide as well as taking part in some team challenges building rafts, playing Capture the Kingdom and doing a confidence course.


Technology allowing we will be sharing some of our adventures with you while we are away so please keep checking back to see how we are doing and don't be afraid to leave us an encouraging comment!

Almost time for Camp

Room 8 head off on camp next week with the rest of the senior classes at Hillcrest Normal School. We are busy getting ready and some of us have been writing cinquain poems about what we think camp will be like. We'd love to hear what you think and hopefully next week will be able to update you on what we do while we are at camp so keep checking back.

Ormie the Pig

We have been starting to think about our trip to camp at the end of the term. Marija tells us about a video we watched in class today about a little pig called Ormie and how he teaches us about one of the skills we need to be successful...

Ormie the pig is a pink, chubby guy that sees a fridge. On top of that fridge was a cookie jar filled with cookies. Ormie wanted it really bad, so he tried many things to get them but all of them failed. We watched Ormie because we are going to camp very soon. He was very determined to get those cookies and in the end he won, he got them! I think another way Ormie could have gotten the cookies was to use the toilet plungers up the side of the fridge instead of the front.

We have pasted a link to Ormie below so you can watch him for yourself. We are all hoping to show as much perseverance as Ormie does when we head off to camp in four weeks time.