On the 17th and 18th of March rooms 17 and 18 (yes the dates match our room numbers!) headed out of school for some time in the great outdoors getting to know each other better. We were lucky to have some great parents helping us out with transport, supervision, cooking.... and putting our tents up!
On Thursday we walked the Papamoa Hills Regional Park guided by Mr Fraser, a park ranger from the BOP Regional Council. We learnt lots of interesting things about the area like Mayor Island obsidian was traded for other goods, bracken fern was eaten when kumara crops failed and thousands of people lived on the pa site during times of war.
Hamburgers for dinner and a swim at the hot pools (with the NZ Sevens team, woo hoo!) made up for all the walking we did.
Some of us did lots of talking during the night, hmm tent walls are not so good at keeping noise in - but at least we were actively working on the 'getting to know each other' Learning Intention.
Mr Arthur took us for a beach run at 7 o'clock on Friday morning, argh!
We discovered a huge variety of marine life in the rock pools at the base of the Mount.... sea anemones are soft even though they look a bit like concrete.
Room 17... that's us.... rocked the tug of war. We completely took out room 18! Then our two classes showed the parents that we are no push over either.
YUM! Thanks to Mrs Hunter we had a delicious lunch at Pilot Bay.... of the kiwi favourite... Fish and Chips. Thanks to the Mount Fish and Chip shop who gave us some L and P for freeeeee!
Back to school.
