Activ8

Hello everyone. We haven't blogged for a long time but hopefully Mrs Tobin has us up and running again. We have two teachers in our class now - Mrs Tobin is acting principal so she spends half her time in the office, so Mrs Baines is teaching us too. She is doing some cool stuff with us about space and hopefully we can do a blog about that.


Last term some of the Year 6's went to a thing called Activ8. There were 8 of us (of course), four boys and four girls. It was held at Kaikorai Valley College.

The first activity we had to do was like an egg and spoon race. We had to go over and round lots of obstacles as quickly as we could without dropping the 'egg' off the spoon. We weren't very fast but we didn't drop the egg very often.


Our next challenge was an obstacle course right round the Kaikorai Valley field. Boy, was it hard! We had to swing along bars, climb walls, slide down poles and work as a team to shift heavy sacks. Here Deanna is coming very carefully down the wooden wall.



This was fun! We all had to get in a hoop of cloth and walk along like a big tyre. We were one of the quickest team at this because we used great team-work.







Do you like our food pyramid? We had to make it with the packages of lots of different food.






Steady on team. This is tricker than it looks. We can't remember the name of it but we had to all lower a rod to the ground by using only the tips of our fingers. There was a washer on the end of the rod and if that fell off then we had to start again.




What a tangle we have gotten ourselves into. It took quite a bit of twisting and turning to get untangled.



This is called the 'spider's web'. We had to get all our team from one side of the 'web' to the other without touching the ropes, because they were poisonous. To make it even harder, once one person has gone through a hole, no-one else can go through the same hole. Here we are lifting Camble through his hole.

The day was really fun and we learned a lot about team work.