Outta This World

The school wide inquiry for term 4 is Outta This World. We've been learning about all of the planets in our solar system, and for this e-Learning project we got to choose which planet to do it on. I chose Venus. First we had to come up with a reason to leave earth and find a new planet to live on. But no planet is perfect so we had to find two problems with them and find a solution. I hope you like my movie!

My Last Prizegiving

This prizegiving was my last at Pt. England school, and it wasn't bad at all. I got a prize for excellence in movie production, being a school ambassador, team spirit for netball, being a presenter for the school news, getting high distinction in writing and I won 1st academic. When I got the prizes I got a lolly lei each time, but I also got two really awesome presents. For being a school ambassador I got a really cool purple laptop bag, and for being a school presenter I got some really cool headphones. I love them because they are so nice and soft. I had a great time at prizegiving and the next time I come back to one of these I will be sitting in the seats.

Extension Election

With the recent election, the extension group were learning about all of the different parties. We chose one party to answer some questions about, like what kind of NZ are they keen on developing?  As you can see I chose the NZ First party, and then made a billboard as if I was a candidate for this area. You probably already know that it was the National party and John Key who won the election, but I thought and hoped that Labour would win.

Fine Dining on Kawau

I don’t think I had ever tasted bread quite like this in my whole life. Every morning the smell of Mr Coop’s, our chefs, bread made you want to take a detour on our run and get to the dining room. It was delicious.

Everyone was very well fed at camp, with breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and of course dessert. To my surprise I ate every meal. Doing all these activities really does make you hungry.

My favourite meal was the dinner we had on the first night. It was made up of some lamb, peas, potatoes and carrots. Plus it was the first time that we tasted Mr Coop’s heavenly bread. If only he was my chef.

Rafting Success

Only one group had made a raft, that got out to the pontoon and back to the beach. So that made me think that this was going to be really difficult. Come on Bentzon.

We had 8 barrels, a bucket of rope and some thick sticks to make a raft. First we tied all the sticks together, and then we put the barrels on. Tieing these ropes was not like tieing your shoelaces. We pulled them so hard that water came out.

Being the smart people that we are, we tested our raft by flipping it over. Two of the barrels fell out. We just tied them back on, and with our fingers crossed, took it down to the water.All our hard work payed off when we got to the pontoon and back successfully.

Biggest Panic Ever

One look at the sailing boats made me think,”this is way too complicated”. To help get me through this process, Serena and I sailed together. I was in charge of controlling the sail and Serena steered us. Fingers crossed we wouldn’t capsize.

I didn’t really know what I was doing, so every time the sail flung over to the other side Serena and I would scream and shout. It wasn’t that I didn’t listen to the instructions, it was just a bit confusing for me. This sport was probably something that I would do once for fun.

Challenge: Sail to the opposite side of the beach. My thoughts: WHY? We got closer and closer to where the bigger waves were. I was scared that our boat would tip, and I would get caught under it. Luckily Serena and I got to the other side and back without capsizing. I was so relieved!

First Day Nightmare

As soon as the year 6's got to Camp Bentzon on Kawau island, it wasn’t time to swim, check out our cabins or play volleyball, we had to go on a massive tramp through the bushes. HELP!!

My legs were dying, and I felt like collapsing. So when we stopped to have a rest ,hopefully we were going back to the camp, but no. Apparently we were only a quarter of the way.

Finally we made it to the beach, where we got to eat and play. I ended up skimming rocks and eating oysters right from the shells.They were delicious! But what I didn’t realise, was that we had to walk back the way we came. Not my favourite part of camp.