Confidence Course, by Jasmine

At year  6 camp theres a confidence course which is really cool.
 My favourite is the wire line that you walk on. It was hard to jump over the wooden wall, so lots of people just walked straight past it.
It was funny on the rigging - some peolple were trying to get up but couldn't. We were neally falling off the rigging - it was so fun. It was scary one night when we played fright night in the bushes. It was dark, it was quiet, it was SCARY! Beyonce and I were so freaked out for a while. Then a teacher came and it was time to go and get ready for a shower. Oh no!


From Jasmine

First hockey Game of the Season! by Alex

20.5.13
Last Saturday we had our first hockey game. When I got there I saw our team watching a game. When we got on the turf Lee hit the ball.The game was on.
I got the ball quite a lot but Brook scored all our goals.The score was five to us and 8 to Taradale Primary. I play centre back and Brook got player of the day.
By Alex

Porritt Bear, by Manaia

Today we had to say good bye to Porritt Bear, and give him back to Mr Ginns for assembly.
We had Porritt Bear for a week. On Wednesday it was "Wacky Wednesday"  and Porritt Bear wore Jasmine's wig and wore his top the wrong way round.

Ngamoko By Cairo

OMG! I'm so tired. We all went  down to have breakfast. Then we got into the bus and drove to Nga moko mountain. We saw that it was so big. Bigger than a giant's foot. Hurry take the photo already.
 We started to walk up the hill.
"I got sore feet!" shouted  Sylvia. Really, Sylvia.
It took us hours to get to the top but we saw  trees, rocks, mud and last of all lots of slimy dirt. Yuck. Finally we got between the mountains and we found out that we had to climb another one. We all gasped. Hours later we got to the top. YAY! We all shouted. Now its time to eat our lunch. After we ate our lunch we went back down the mountain. What an awesome day. Oh no my feet hurt!

Starting out

Lunch at the top

Looking at the view

Girls Cabin!

Last day of camp. I woke up at like 6:30 am. It was loud. Me and Cairo started talking then everyone woke up and said"Morning to everyone". Then suddenly we heard the boys talking, because some people went to the toilet maybe that's why.
Mrs McLean came in the cabin and said" Morning girls, hey look people are still trying to sleep so keep it down". It was akward because I thought of an idea! I said, "Hey guys why don't we pack our bags so that we can get ready to go". So we quietly went to do that in an excited way. Then we heard the BOYS. Someone said, "What are they doing?"
I said, "They must be having a disco ball in there."
 Each and every one of us got up, and rushed out the door. OMG! They're dancing. That's the first time I've seen a boy dancing. Well its not, but it was a crack up. While they were dancing they saw us outside.Oh no! They saw us, oh well. By the time we stopped laughing it was 7:00am. Mrs McLean came rushing down the hallway and said" Girls you can get changed and have breakfast after you have dressed."
Yay finally we all ran out and went to the bathrooms. It was dirty.... but who cares.

We got dressed, then we got called into the dining room, so that we knew what we had to do today. After our breakfast, everyone went to do their jobs (oh no everyone was rushing to get it over and done with)
We went to our cabin it was a MESS. Do you know why?  Because there were clothes, bags and pillows. Then Sylvia stepped on something. It was her HAIRBRUSH!  It was broken into pieces because it had NO handle.(hahaha)It was so funny everyone was laughing because she held it up and said in a mad and angry voice, "Where is the  handle to my hairbrush?" It was awkwardly silent and someone giggled. Sylvia got MENTAL well, a little bit! It took us a long time until it was clean and spotless. Our bags were heavy as some people weren't strong like ME.

It was about time we got everything in the bus. The inspection had happened, and we were back from our little walk up to the lakes behind the camp. We all ran down to our bus seats and started to, you know, TALK. I played the ukulele on the way back, me and Cairo had turns. My papa Orcades that helped passed us in his vehicle. People were having a great time and I didn't even know that we were in Wairoa. Beau-dean said, " Did we have our Fish'n'Chips?"
I said,"No." We got out of the bus and rushed to our lunch by the river. Yes Fish'n'Chips waiting for me on the table. I odered a Hot dog and it came with chips. I ate my hot dog and went to the playground, then I saw the most beautiful puppies ever.(Which were pitpulls) We got to hold them and pat them. I liked the boy dog. It was a real dog not the Hot dog that I ate! It was time to go then we left Wairoa it was an hour or 2 hours back to Napier. We passed Lake Tutira and then we were in Bayview. I said" We're nearly there Cairo". When we got onto York Ave and passed the corner we saw Porritt School Road patrolers. Finally we were there and it was good to see my mates again.
But Camp Kaitawa was AWESOME though and a good exprience for me and others. I hope Room 15 and 12 have a great time too.
By Hineawe

The waterfalls, by Kaleb.

We went to the waterfalls. The waterfalls make a big noise like a giant storm. They sounded like rain flooding the path. Shhhh.
On the waterfalls I saw white foam like the waves at the beach.
Some water is deep and some water is shallow.
Mr Ginns took our photos at the waterfalls.

CAVES

OMG! Its so dark in here.
"Hine where are you? This is so dark!" shouted Emily.
I ran out like a wild animal. Wow! this is better. We saw lots of ferns,trees and lots of diffrent things I have never seen before. We saw pinky,orangey mushrooms and lots of red berries. I think they were poisonous. Yuck when we went into one cave we saw lots of yuck wetas. When we went into another cave there were slippery rocks and slimy mud. There also was an ugly looking beetle. Wow! I all most forgot we saw a green lake. We could see right though it. It was incredible.
By Cairo


To day room 13 and room 14 went for lots of walks in the maori bush then all of room 13 and 14 went in to some wonderful caves. We went to 8 caves and then we saw a green pounamu lake. Also the rata vine was strangling the tree and Mr Ginns was telling us to pose and jump.
by BeauDean

This is us when we had finished all the caves.