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.

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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!

Oh No!

Amy shares a piece of her writing about our kayaking at Waimarino.

I wobble in the kayak but don’t topple .the wind has pushed me into the side of the bank. ”Oh no” I think. I carefully force my paddle between the murky brown water speckled with green and the hideous weeds growing thickly in the water. I push using all my strength to get of the bank. Chemae and Maega have already past me. I try hard to keep up but I can’t, my arms aren’t strong enough. I keep getting blown into the bank. I swerve suddenly to avoid running over a mother duck and her ducklings. I carefully look at their soft feathers and wonder how Ocean can be scared of them.

As I slowly paddle specks of sticky mud covers my legs. I carefully turn without getting blown away. I approach the white boat and hurry up so I’m not the last.

Our trip to Waimarino

Marcus and Jennifer tell us all about our trip to Waimarino waterpark near Tauranga.

On Monday the 21^st of November we went on a school trip to Waimarino Adventure Park. Our instructors told us the rules like no running or else you had to do 10 press ups! They also taught us how to put on a buoyancy vest and told us about some of the activities for example on the Slip and Slide only works with contact to skin.

The instructors then let us go and we went to have a lot of fun!!! There was an activity called “The Blob” and one person would jump onto “The Blob” and move to the end and then another person would jump on and then, “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”, the first person was catapulted into the air and Wow look at the humongous splash! There were other activities like a kayak slide (which was basically a hydroslide that you could go down in a kayak) a Tarzan swing and a gladiator pole.

We also did kayaking in the afternoon. We had to get into a circle and hold onto the other persons kayak beside us, this was called rafting up. We were also taught what happens when we fall out, Steven volunteered to jump out of his kayak and the instructors told us how to get back in. We played cats and dogs and us kitty cats mouths dropped the dogs were scary. We then formed our circle again and the instructors did tricks on the boat. When we had a turn most of us fell of when we were standing or doing wheelies.

We had the time of our lives!

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