Last week, the senior school went to camp. The camp was at Mrs Harris' farm. The few days were filled with highlights, here is a quick overview of what we got up to...

Hi, its Ben and Felix here, we are going to talk to you about the NZ army coming to visit us at camp and first of all we got to touch dismounted weapons. We got to hold a AUG red dot sighted gun, AUG agog sighted and a AUG agog sighted gun with a grenade launcher connected onto it and other weapons were a light and heavy SMGs and my personal favourite was the bazooka( rocket launcher.) All of these dismounted guns were real but could not shoot and had no ammo. Then we saw and got to mess around with an Austrian made, fully armoured vehicle with a 50 calibre mounted machine gun (MMG for short.) We got to crawl all over the vehicle (Tommy got to fire the last fake bullet) it was ultimo skill and got to touch bullet proof army packs and other stuff this was a cool experience thanks NZ army, Ben and Felix out.    

We did a rotation of art, writing and orienteering. We did some cool drawing using these little view finders, drawing the landscape around us. Next we did some orienteering. It’s when we had to get to your destination with your compass. Lucky last was writing recipe of courage, e.g. 1 cup of kindness etc. – Te Manawa and Tyler

At dinner time on the first night we had to cook with an open fire. We cut a rectangular hole in the ground and collected sticks and wood, to get our fire started. We cooked walking tacos , they tasted better than tacos at home!!! Written by Fallon and Kassie

AAAAAHHHHH!!! His head is cut off. The eel is slippery it was back and yellow we cooked it on a barbecue on the second day. It was juicy and yummy. By Pasa and Tommy.

At the start of the gorge walk we jumped through a fence and started walking up the track. We came to a little cliff with stairs for us to walk down as we got further down the track two dads snuck of and hid behind a bush. As we got near the bush they were behind they jumped out at us and gave us a massive fright.  By Kimberley and her partner

Masterchef - Wow! What a mission we had to cook in groups one person from each from each group had to choose a numbered bag of ingredients. We had to cook with a mini gas cooker. We had up to 6 ingredients in our bag including 2 sausages per person in our groups. The winners were Alannah’s group from room 14. Written by Angala and Shirley

Mountain biking down the hill was challenging and fun. On the second day Mrs Harris' daughter Laura came and took some kids on a mountain bike track. I crashed and my bike flipped but I managed to stay on. One person used his front brake too much and crashed. He hurt his elbow but luckily one kind person helped him and had to walk the rest of the way.

During free time people rode on the mountain bikes on a track made by a group of boys and Mr Harris on the first day.    Written by Sam and Troy.

Wow wee you wouldn’t believe the mayhem Mrs Colliss went through to help us the tents set up. There was a massive range of sizes from Bens two man tent to Kimberley huge tent that housed 13 people!  It was tiring work!  By Nicole and Caitlyn

Go through the lava pit only recourses are boulders to go past. Lead your blind sheep into the pen without talking with real words or holding them. Get out of a human tangle and form a circle holding hands for all of these tasks you needed co-operation. By Willie and Humo

On the second day of camp, my teacher gave to me, permission to build a tepee with Jonathon, Jessie & Ben .First we had to gather wood for the tepee, which meant riding the A.T.V (with Mark A.K.A. Mr Harris) for half of the morning to a little forest on the farm. Using a chainsaw, we obliterated Mother Nature’s creation and went back to camp (with a few hiccups on the way e.g. getting stuck in the mud) When we arrived back we tied the poles together (most of the credit goes to Ben and Robo) and lifted it up to create the masterpiece (I had a little incident which resulted in my nickname: Photon! Ben said that I was smarter than most of the adults and I proved it by asking them what a Photon is and as I predicted, they didn’t know).For those lesser scientific beings, a Photon is what light is made of.

By your co-creator of the tepee Photon.

So today was the night of the “CAMP CONCERT” and we were feeling rather shy. We had to work together and co-operate really well and create a performance that wasn’t boring! Suddenly when the show started every group went through their performance with dancing, singing , plays, comedy, and loads more…. By Janna and Maxine

At concert night all of the men which we called man cave performed. We all thought that they were going to do the huku but they did the cancan. By Michael and Foni