Year 6 Camp

Last Wednesday the Year 6s with Mrs Hamilton, Miss Reedy and the amazing group of parent helpers, Hazel, Debs, Andrew, Scott, Rad and Mark headed over to Living Springs. We did a big walk from Governors Bay around the coast with our leader Joseph and then headed up the big hill to Don's Hut. It was exhausting!

At Don's Hut we did some indoor climbing, there were some awesome Spider Boys and Girls. Everyone gave it a go and it was lots of fun. Later on we jumped back in the cars and finally made our way to our campsite. We put up our own tents and moved our stuff in for our stay. We had a great time exploring our campsite and some of us tested out the fence (ask us about it). Dinner was a yummy curry, we each had turns in our groups being the washing up team and then we kept playing outside and competed in Speed Charades with Miss Reedy before it was time for bed. It had been such a big day and lots of us were ready for sleep, others took a little convincing!

Day Two saw us up and ready early. The first thing we did was go for a swim! We loved doing manus into the pool. Rad had us practicing swimming under water (Londyn swam the whole length) and the whole group made a whirlpool. After our swim we learned how to do archery. It was quite tricky at first but after a while, we got really good. We had target practice, first into a bucket and then against each other! At the end the adults had a turn against each other. After lunch (Nachos!) we had Orienteering where we had to run all over camp collecting stamps. Scott and his team won in a Living Springs record time. NBC were awesome because all the teams got back before Joseph had to do the siren. After Orienteering we played Animal Survivial which was a really cool chasing game. As you can see we were go, go, go all day. Did we have enough energy for the monorail after dinner (Burgers and Chips)? WE SURE DID!!

Our last day at camp came around so quickly. In the morning we had to pack up and clean up camp, putting all our gear into cars. We went back to Don's shed for morning tea then headed down into the forest for "Initiatives". These were great team building tasks where we had to help each other, use our brains and communication to achieve our goals. It was challenging and fun. After we finished there we got in our cars and went down to the Farmyard where we got to feed the animals, ride in the trailer behind the tractor and meet Evie the cow. We fed some of the calves milk, they were really bossy! We had lunch and then reflected together about our favourite things on camp. Then it was time to pile into our vehicles and head back home. What an amazing time!