Pudding Hill Camp 2014

What an awesome time we had on camp! Thank you so much to all the wonderful parents who helped make it possible and congratulations to the amazing Room 1 students. It was exciting to see you bucket filling, taking risks and working together.

THE BIGGEST RISK OF MY LIFE

I saw in fright, a lot of night-black trees with lots of scary wasps surrounding them. Once I saw them I was scared but then the instructor said that if you’re quiet like you’re sleeping then they won’t sting you. Then it was time to start the activity. My very brave friend Tatiana wanted to go first. I thought her mum would be proud of her. As I saw other people going down, I got a bit braver but when it was my turn I felt like running away from the campsite. I stood straight and let the instructor out the harness on. Then I was ready… ready for the most scary thing I ever done in my life. It was like walking off a plan with sharks in the water below. Then I started leaning back slowly with fear. I kept going and going and going until I was in the middle of the cliff. That was when I was ready to jump. As I was bouncing down the rock, I felt like I was flying through the air. That was the moment I started to like abseiling.

Vithurna 

BULLS EYE

I curled my fingers around the string and pulled it back to my chin. I let go of the arrow. It was as fast as a dragonfly and deadly like a scorpion stinging its prey. Then it hit the target. I ran to get my arrow and waited again for my turn at archery.

Hunter 

THE SOAP BOY

I can’t even open my eyes. It seems like I’m faster than a lightning bolt. I’m dripping with soap as my friends are cheering me up, I run and I jump down. I’m zooming again. It’s like I’m on air shouting my way down the hill. It’s rough but I see smiles and people are having the happiest time of their lives. I can see the soapy slide getting  soapier and the teacher’s face as she grins at the naughty boys (I’m not the naughty boy). I grinned at the same time. Boom! I just realised that I was daydreaming and people were waiting for me. I apologise and I say ‘’time to catch some soap’’ and slide down with my buddies. I act like I’m texting my mum as I crash into Tevita, Jayden, Aakrista and Yongfeng. ‘’Ouch.’’ I slip over in the soap and my bottom hurts as I run back up the hill for another turn on the waterslide. I will always remember the fun I had at the 2014 Pudding Hill camp.

Matthew 

One more sleep...

Room 1 students are so excited about going on camp tomorrow.

I cant wait till tomorrow to go to camp-Ahmad

I can't wait till tomorrow because we are going to camp and looking forward to the epic activities! Shravan

I can't wait until the water slide and the mountain biking. I also can't wait till play with my friends at Pudding Hill Katie!

I can't wait to go on the water slide . Marissa

This is going to be awesome. I can't wait to do camp stuff. Abby

I can't wait for the awesome water slide and spotlight if we do it . Alex

I can not wait to arrive at camp and have lots of fun. Matthew

I can't wait t do the activities. Aakrista

I can't wait to go camp and learn more about my friends. Jacob

St John Basic First Aid Training

St John Training


At our  St John training,  Room 1 learnt about safety and helping other people that need first aid. The best part was that we could fake our injuries!

We learnt about the Doctor's ABC (DRSABC):

Danger
Response
Send 4 help
Airway
Breathing
CPR

We also learnt that if someone is bleeding a lot you need to use pressure and to elevate.

By Trixie

Sabrina's bunnies

Sabrina brought in her pet bunnies to show us. She has seven at home and they like to eat carrots and apples. They were cute, fluffy and we liked the different colours.

Tabloid Sports Tournament

What a fantastic afternoon! It was great to see everybody out and participating so well in all of the different activities. A big 'Congratulations' to those students who stepped up to run the activities. You all did an awesome job!

Cicada Research

When I was at home after school, I found a cicada on one of my trees and I got a container and put it in to bring it to school. We found some more cicada shells and put them up on the wall. - Ahmad

Pasta Towers

Today’s challenge for Room 1 was working together (relating to others) to build the tallest tower they could from spaghetti sticks and marshmallows.

‘’I learnt that teamwork is really important. It was challenging because the spaghetti sticks kept snapping.’’ – Sabrina

‘’I found it really challenging to build but my team did well.‘’  - Brooke

‘’It was fun because it was challenging.’’ – Hunter

‘’It was fun because we all worked together.’’ – Tatiana

‘’It was hard putting the marshmallows together.’’ – Jonathan

‘’It was tricky at first but at the end it was fun and yummy.’’ – Trixie

‘’If we had cellotape it would be easy to build but we had marshmallows so it was challenging.’’ – Matthew

‘’It was hard to put the marshmallows with the spaghetti’’ – Alisha

‘’It was really hard to stick everything together’’ – Kasey

‘’It was fun because it was yummy and hard to build something with only spaghetti and marshmallows.’’ – Danna

‘’I learnt how to keep it up.’’ – Marissa

‘’It was hard but lots of people in my group gave it a go.’’ – Jayden

‘’I learnt that if you work together you can accomplish it.’’ – Ahmad

‘’It was very hard. Every time I made a new one it went down.’’ – Cristina

‘’It was challenging because it was quite hard to make it balance.’’ – Tevita

‘’I had fun but it was tricky because it wasn’t stable but in the end it was yummy!’’ – Katie

‘’Making it was really hard and everyone wanted to eat all of it.’’ – Vithurna

‘’The marshmallows were delicious.’’ – Alannah P

Room 1's Canoes

    

On the second day of school room 1 made wakas (Maori canoes) We only used newspaper and cello-tape and we had to fit a team mate in the canoe .Miss Robson wanted us to do this because teamwork was our topic for the week!!! 

by Aakrista

Welcome

                As-Salāmu `Alaykum

안녕하세요 An-nyong Ha-se-yo

今日は  Kon-nichiwa

नमस्ते Namaste

你好 Néih hóu

你好  Nǐ hǎo

Привет Privet

Bunã ziua

Mhoroi / Sawubona

God dag

Mālō e lelei

Talofa lava

Kia ora

                          and welcome to Room 1's 2014 blog. 

We are students in a Year 5/6 class at Ilam School in Christchurch, New Zealand and we look forward to sharing our learning and experiences with you.