On the 25th to the 28th of October. The Year 5 and 6 students went to camp at Waitomo Caves. The day I loved the most was the Stubbs Farm adventure day.
On the second day of camp. My group went to Stubbs Farm. The activity I did first at Stubbs farm was the covenant with the instructor Scuba. At the covenant we split into three groups. I was in the second group. The group took turns leading the other groups and doing the activity. For my group's turn we had to get water. The other two groups got dirt and sunlight. The objective was to get stuff that you need to grow a tree.
Caving was my Favourite activity with instructor (and cave expert) Dave. At the entrance, I was boiling with excitement to go in. When I went in, it did not disappoint me. In the first 10 metres there were a lot of weta. The farther we went in the cave the cooler it got. I enjoyed being in the cave and seeing the bones, some of them were from moa. I liked that we walked through water and got wet.
The last Stubbs Farm activity was abseiling with the instructor called Travis. In abseiling I went first and it was really fun. On a scale of 1 to 10 I was a 5 with my nerves. I didn’t like the bit where the cliff curved in. The feeling when I got to the bottom of the cliff was that I wanted to go again.
I really enjoyed going to Stubbs Farm and I hope I can do it again.
George
On October Term 4 Week 2 we went to Te Kotahitanga Marae with Room 11, 12 and a little bit of Room 6. We went to Stubbs farm, did a game called bunkin hill and did a camp concert.
On day 3 for camp we went to Stubbs farm. This is what we did... caving,going on a walk and going abseiling. When we entered the cave I got so scared because there were weeters. I freaked out but then Maddie calmed me down. When we got to the end of the cave we ate chocolate fish. There were also moa bones.
We played this fun game called bunkin hill. This is how you play: you have to hide in the long grass. You have to try not to get caught by the person with the chocolate.
On the last day we did a camp concert. It was sad because there were only 2 performances. One of them was falling into swaps.In that play it was me [Kiani], Kyeisha, Emma and Sophia. In the 2nd one was called the Spice girls in that dance was Dorothy, Lana, Ayla, Maddie, Zanthe and Elia.
Thank you to everybody for being super nice kind to each other.
By Kiani
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Term 3 week 1 school camp
From the 25th to the 28th of October Room 11, 12 and some of the Room 6 students went on a school camp. We went to the Te Kotahitanga Marae in Otorohanga. We did caving, abseiling and of course had some funny bedtime behaviour.
A highlight for me was caving. I loved it because it was different to what I normally do. In the cave we had to climb and crawl through small, wet spaces. At one point we sat on a huge limestone rock with lots of oyster shells on it. Our instructor Scuba told us lots of information as we went through the cave and we got to yell at the glowworms.
Another highlight was also abseiling. What I loved about abseiling was that it was a challenge. It was fun, we had to lower ourselves down and no longer afraid.
Every night after a long day of adventuring, I put my head on my pillow and relaxed. We all slept in one big room called a wharenui. There was a little bit of snoring, moaning and crying from home sick kids but most of us slept like babies.
Camp was awesome and I want to do it again I had the
I had the best time ever.cliff that was 8.5 m tall. We had to lower ourselves down with a long rope. I was scared at first but in the end I loved doing it and I was no
By Sophia Matuschka
In late October Rooms 12 and 11 went to Te Kotahitanga Marae for our Waitomo caving camp. We went abseiling, visited a museum, and then we did some caving.
On the first day we went abseiling. I was afraid of how high it was. The instructor Travis was so supportive and helped me go down the 8.5m cliff. I was proud of my self.
One of the first things that we did at camp was go to the museum. We saw a massive fake moa, we watched a movie about caving and we crawled into this small cave hole. The last thing that we did was a that I learnt that the female moa was bigger than the male moa.
The last thing that I am going to talk about is caving. I was scared and claustrophobic but I conquered that fear. In the cave we saw some moa bones and I learnt that if you touch the limestone rocks they turn blackish.
Camp was 10 out of 10. I want to go on another camp ASAP.
Caprice
Waitomo caves camp
Don't make me get out of bed! Late October Room 12, 11 and a bit of Room 6 went to Waitomo Glowworm Caves. I went to the same cave in August so I helped Charlie find all the things that our instructor was pointing out to us. At the end of the cave we all hopped on a little boat. Me, Eden, Laruen, Saroise, Hyrum and Luke were at the back of the boat. We were TERRIFIED the boat kept tipping back and we almost touched the water with the huge eel [Ernie] in it .
Every night everyone played a night game. The first night we played spotlight where you would hide and the seekers would try to spot you with a light. The second and third night we played Bunkinhill where there would be a container hidden in the grass and you would have to crawl around trying not to get spotted by the seekers. If you found the container you would win a yummy chocolate.
On the 3rd day my group went to Stubbs Farm to do abseiling, a bush walk and caving. My group had to split into 3 little groups and my little group went abseiling first. Abseiling is like going down a steep rock slope on a rope. Second, we did the bush walk. And lastly we went caving before we went in the cave. We put on these jackets and helmets and it made us look like little miners going on an adventure. When we got into the cave if you looked up there were like 100 huge wetas. And at some points in the cave there was freezing cold water that went up to my waist and at the end we entered this thing called the scallop room and we sat on this big rock and ate chocolate fish.
This camp was definitely one of my favourite camps ever! I hope we can go to a camp like this again next year.
Charlotte
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