Cricket tournament Rafe.

On December the 2nd ten people were selected by the teachers (Mrs Dunn & Mrs Salt) to go to the cricket tournament at Warkworth, luckily I was chosen. Five schools were competing they were Ahuroa, Warkworth, Matakana, Mahurangi Christian and Tomarata.

Doing cricket was great fun we played three heats and one final in the final we came seventh and we won some Milo kiwi cricket prizes.

In our heats we versed Matakana, then Ahuroha and then Warkworth then in the final it was Ahuroha again.

It was a great day and I had an awesome time.

Camping out - sleeping - Lily

At camp we did a lot of things but I know after a long day all we wanted to do was have a shower, get in pyjamies & snuggle in the tent. But it was always a lot less simple than that! We all had hectic showers! Squabbling over who got in first, who to trade coins with. Then finally sorting ourselves out and getting into our sleeping bags.

In my tent I shared with two other girls. Called Rosa and Nicky. At night time we wrote in our camp diaries, talked about the day, told spooky stories that were meant to be scary but turned out always to involve a monkey man and in that case causing us to laugh.

Later on we did puppet plays, perhaps at 10 o'clock. We made our hands and fingers look like chickens and bunnies let alone wonkey tractors! And don't even get started with my completely over the moon type farmer! Anyway at 10:30pm we usually drifted off. But Nicky fell off her lilo and onto my inch high sleeping mat! So then I slept on the floor leaving only Rosa on her own comfy bed!

By morning we were almost every morning the last or first tent to wake up. It was a great camp and I'll never forget just how much fun we had!

By Lily

Water Safety and Swimming - Kiarnan

The water safety lady talked about what to do if you are in trouble in the water. You put one arm up straight and you don't wave it or they will think you are happy. She showed us how you could use an empty large bottle as a float tied to a rope. We practised throwing the rope to our partner and dragging them in.
Then the man talked to us about hypothermia, that's when you get very cold after your boat has sunk. You should huddle together as a big group to keep warm. We practised huddling and I was in the middle when our whole class huddled because the smaller people go in the middle.
He also showed us how to put your life jacket on properly so it is tight and you won't slip out of it.
Then we went for a swim in our life jackets and we huddled in groups. It was fun and a good technique to keep warm in the water.

The Talent Show at Matins Bay Camp By Matthew

I liked the talent show my favourite talent was Hugos diablo. The bubblegum skit was really funny. Shane and Lukes one was cool because they both played one guitar at the same time, Luke strummed and Shane did the chords. Remo and Hugos duck food skit was funny when Remo kept asking for duck food and Hugo didn't have any. Then Hugo said he would staple his feet to the floor if he asked for duck food again. Then Remo said "Do have any staples?" and Hugo said "We're out of stock and Remo said "That's ok, do you have any duck food?"

The talents were very good and we laughed a lot.

Kayaking at Martins Bay. - Claire

When I first found out we were doing kayaking. I was kind of scared. I had never been kayaking before. My friends started jumping up and down. But when we started kayaking I realised how fun it is.
Larissa Davies and I paddled out deeper.Then out of the blue Scott came whizzing along towing Piripi from the rubber dinghy.It looked like Piripi was zooming along! He unrapped the loop that was holding Piripi's kayak to the dingy. Very quickly the rest of us caught up.
When it was time to swap kayaks we grabbed each others kayaks. Piripi was the first to move . He slowly crawled across. Finally we all had swopped and started heading out deeper. We grabbed each others boats. Darcie,Ethan,Kaleb and Piripi jumped in. Darcie flipped her kayak and Scott helped her get back on. Piripi flipped his to and Darcie had to help him. Finally we went back. That was a great day to remember.
By Claire.

MOUNTIAN BOARDING - Abbey

On Wednesday the 24 of November Room 4 did mountain boarding in our activity groups and it was really fun!I fell off the mountain board and got a wobbly tooth!!
First we had pushes on the flat ground and it was cool.
Then we did it on a small hill and that was OK.
Then did it from the top of a big hill and that was really scary!!! The mountain board was going faster and faster and it flipped and I fell off - then I went back to practising on the little hill.
We had to wear knee pads, elbow pads and wrist pads as well.
It was starting to spit but we didn't care,we carried on with mountain boarding because it was awesome.
Then it was afternoon tea. We had fun doing mountain boarding

By Abbey.

Martins Bay Camp

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