Camp Kaitawa Favourites by Rimu Moriarty

Here are our reflections from our last day of camp. A huge thank you to Aaron, Caine, Jay, Jay-Bea, Jordan, Mike, Simon and of course Miss Hill for making our camp an amazing experience! We all feel very lucky to have spent a week in one of the most beautiful and fun places in the world.

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Check out the students' blog posts on Kaitawa on their blogs in the column to the left,

Looking Forward to Camp Kaitawa!

Next week, on Monday morning, Rimu Moriarty is off to Camp Kaitawa. The following week, Rimu Love will have their turn. In the hub, we have been discussing what we know about camp and what we want to know. Here are two Padlets, which share some of our knowledge and questions.
 

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Walkathon

At the end of term one, we had our Walkathon. Well done to all the students and especially those who raised money for their camp costs!

For the Walkathon, we walked in two of hub day groups joined together. It was great to see the students encouraging each other and walking together as a team. 

Parkvale P.R.I.D.E.

Thank you to Mrs Miller for the photos. Click on the photo to view clearly.

Camp Omatua

Camp Omatua Room 21b

The lead up to Camp Omatua was quite an exciting one. We did heaps of team building activities so we were ready to face the challenges and problem at camp. 

Day One:

After leaving school we went to the Puketapu Domain which is sort of like a playground. I enjoyed going on the flying fox - Lachlan

It was really fun going up and down on the see-saw - Oscar Ellis

 

After we left Puketapu Domain we went to the camp. When we got there we had to sit on the deck ready and waiting for our safety walk. This told us where we could go and where we couldn't go - Zane

We had to get our bags and put them in our rooms. We also had to make our beds and it was a competition who could be the bestest dorm. In my dorm, Aaron and Rob let us down because they hadn't made their beds properly - Deegan

The first activity we making our dinner and preparing the fire. For the camp fire we had to collect stones, kindling, tinder and fuel and some other bits and pieces that we could fine. For our dinner we had to make the meatballs. It was disgusting rolling them up in your hand - Bella



Next we made our rafts and we did a competition. We made rafts because someone had fallen over and hurt them selves. I was in the team that crashed, we were all holding on and Faith might have been too heavy cause she fell straight into the water - Amie

Kaydence and Team trying our their contraption

Bailey being carried by her team down the river

Carrying their injured person down the river

We used a lot of bamboo so our raft didn't break. We also a lot of string which helped to hold everything together. I enjoyed this because the activities were fun at camp - Kayden

The bamboo forest was dark and pretty scary. It has some steep and flat paths. I enjoyed the bamboo forest because I liked walking up and down the paths - Rosie

Tyla going down the mudslide

Kids waiting to go on the slide

Oscar J playing in the water

We got to go for a free swim in the river. When I first got in it was freezing. We went on a mudslide which was made of clay. It was very slippery and it was difficult to get up - Aston

It was cool setting up our own fire and food. I didn't really like the food that we made but I made sure I tried some anyway. I loved the smores we make though - Bailey

We also cooked some potatoes on camp. We roasted marshmellow cookies too - George

The end of the first night ended with a quiz. These were done in our activity groups. We took turns at writing an answer and if we got it right we would get a new question. We learnt to work together as a group. Some of the questions were math, reading, and some we had to run outside and find information about camp - Faith


The year 4's in Homeroom Plimmer thoroughly enjoyed camp and many came back wishing that they could do it all over again. 
Miss Plimmer and Mrs Love were so proud of the efforts of all the children and it was a pleasure to see the kids push themselves and do things they hadn't done before. 

If you want to hear more about camp and the activities we did, head to the children in homeroom Plimmer's individual blogs to hear more about what they enjoyed :)

Rimu Hub Day @ Omatua!

The sun shines on Cyclones!

Last Thursday, Rimu Hub all joined together at Camp Omatua for a fun-filled hub activity day. The students were all in groups and had created their own log for their group. I got to run the Amazing Race and I was so proud of the teamwork, thinking and support for each other shown by each group. We are lucky to have students that show so much PRIDE in Rimu Hub and our hub day was a special day to be a part of.

Gummi Bears

Super Survivors

Just cruising!

Team Tiddly-Winks, thinking away.

Super river enjoyment!

Camp Champs, boat race winners!

Parkvale Kiwis

A big thank you to Rimu Plimmer, Miss Plimmer and Mrs Love for making Camp Omatua such as success. Also, thank you Kauri Hub for your inspiration and sharing of resources. He waka eke noa!

 

Hub Day from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.