CAMP HIGHLIGHT.                                     

“It’s time to have some fun at camp Waitomo”!!!

The year 7’s, year 8’s and the teachers/parent helpers got onto the bus and drove off to the Waitomo Caves. The bus driver stopped in Taupo so we could have some lunch and have a toilet break. We stopped in Otorohanga to look in the kiwi house. We stayed at the kiwi house and did a quiz. I found the kiwi house quite fascinating because they are endangered animals so it was cool to see them in real life. There was a male and a female in the enclosure.

We got back onto the bus and drove the rest of the way to Waitomo Top 10 Holiday Park. Once we found our cabins we sorted out who sleeps where. In my cabin there was Edith, Dahlia, Rhian, Chloe and Rhiannon. Later that day we had a play in the playground, some dinner which was a delicious lasagne made by Mrs W.S, a swim in the cold pool and the hot tub and had a shower. A really yum dessert was brought to the table, a self-saucing pudding with cream, “YUM”. After a good nights sleep and a yum breakfast we headed off to Stubbs Farm to do some caving, abseiling and the covenant which is like a treasure hunt. My highlight of that day was caving because it was my first time doing it and it was a new experience. The abseiling was fun as well, as was the covenant but the caving was still the best. After a nice lunch, shower, dinner, dessert, and a sleep for the second night we were all ready to go to the Woodlyn Park show. Billy Black was a very funny guy who, I thought spent all of his time training his farm animals and setting the stage up because it was very cool. We drove to the Discovery Centre and learnt about cave creatures and the formations as well as glow worms.

“Now its time for a bushwalk with ‘Nigel’ (a.k.a Mr Easson)

We went on a Ruakuri bushwalk.

It wasn’t tiring but I did enjoy it.

Then we got dropped off at a dry glow worm cave. We walked down the track and looked formations of stuff made by the rocks. Then we walked over to a platform where we got on a boat and looked at the glow worms in pitch black darkness.

By the time people were ready for showers dinner was ready so we ate our dinner, pudding and had supper.

Day 4 has arrived and we went to a wet adventure cave. That one was my overall highlight of the whole week because we got to climb up waterfalls. It got a bit deep (which was fun) and we had to turn off our lights that were on our helmets.

 

By Ella

Year 7 Camp at Waitomo Caves

Last week the Year 7’s visited the Waitomo Caves for their camp. The students have been preparing all year for this and have put in a lot of hard work to get there. Here are some of our video diaries from Day 2. We travelled to Stubbs Farm where we did abseiling, caving and team building activities.

Camp Day 2

Here is our video diary of day 3. Today we visited the Glowworm caves, Woodlyn Park show, The Discovery Centre and went on the Ruakuri Walk.

Camp Day 3 

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Trip to Kahuranaki Marae

 Here we are doing Waiata with Mrs Hape

 Ethan, Josh and Blake sketching parts of the Marae

 Kruishan, Rueben and Josh working hard on their sketches

 Manraj and Darshini having fun at the Marae

 Can you guess what Riley has drawn?

Rhiannon, Sativa and Dee in front of the Wharenui  

Our first few weeks

This year in Room 10 there are lots of things going on. There is the year 6 camp to Tutira and the Year 7/8 camp to Waitomo. 

Last Friday our school went to the Navy band in Napier and then a walk along Marine Parade to the local park. The Navy band had lots of instruments. There was trumpets, trombones, drums, piccolo, flute, clarinets and many many more. The orchestra played lots of music like olden day classical, theme songs from movies or TV programs. 

After the Navy band we went for a walk to the park. On the way there we went through Napier town and looked at the old fashioned art deco cars. The school stopped and Mr Easson took a picture on a stage using panorama. A few minutes later we arrived at the park. I noticed that their was something different about it. There was a new slide that was quite steep, a climbing wall that looked dismantled and broken. 
We stopped and had lunch.
"Oh nice one Rhian," I said, because she had popped her cherry tomato and it went all over her. But then she pulled out a napkin from inside her lunch box.
"Why do you have that in your lunch box?"
"Because I found one and didn't know what to do with it, so I put it in my lunch box". 
"That was weird," I thought to myself. After lunch me and Rhian went down the slide.
"Wow that was pretty awesome," I thought to myself.



An hour later we hopped on to the bus and went back to school for a swim.  We arrived at school and everyone raced to go get their togs.
We were in the pool for about 45 minutes.

On Monday it was the senior swimming sports. I couldn't go swimming because I had a cold, so Ms Kinney told me to do the judging for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Me, Urmandip and Komalpreet were judging. Sophie and Rhian were doing the points.
Dee came first in all of the year 7 girls races and she got Nazareth a lot of points.

Technology is here again for the year 8's and the year 7's are starting tech.
Us year 7's are doing graphics and designs in art for tech. We have a really nice teacher called Miss Gordon. In art we discussed the rules and started a title page in our scrapbooks, that Ms Kinney brought us. 

In Room 10, Mr Easson wants us to get better at catching and throwing tennis balls. So in P.E, WALT get better at our throwing and catching skills.

This year the senior school have started electives. There is art, fun with flax, photography and speech and drama which I'm doing and Mr Costello is our teacher for it. In speech and drama we have been doing little sketches that Mr Costello has written for us and mimes.

This summer for swimming we have been practicing butterfly and being confident at diving into the pool. 

By Ella