PR E PA R ATORY S C HO OL
Letter from Year 4 Camp
Dear Mum, Dad, Glen, Dylan and
Christina,
How are you? I’m going well. We arrived at
camp safely. When we got there we had a
talk about safety, what we are doing and
who is in each dorm. I am in Oliver’s dorm.
We had Jack B, Josh B, Josh H, Thomas
M, Harry, Tei P, Tye C, Oliver D and Ewan
in our down. My group was number 5. In
our group we had Holly, Deakon, Josh H,
Caitlin, Tom, Evan O, Mu (Lemarna), Charlie
F, Harrison, Bianca and Ewan.
For our activities we did abseiling and
low ropes. The abseiling was fun. We did
thumb-to-bum if we were going too fast
and if we fell we had people at the bottom.
The ropes were quite hard. There were
tyres, parallel ropes, vertical ropes and ropes
to hold on to.
Afterwards we went back to our dorms
and had a nice hot refreshing spirit making
shower. For dinner we had lasagne and it
was delicious! We also had desert which
was apple crumble with custard. It was
OK but not the best. We then brushed our
teeth and went to bed in our nice freezingcold dorms. We were most likely the loudest
room in the world and could be heard over
Mr Ashby’s snoring!
Day 2
We woke up at 6.45am (group 5) because
we were on breakfast duty ‘sigh’. There was
cereal and pancakes. I had some cereal and
six pancakes!
After that we did the incentive course.
It was tiring, wet, scary (the cows!) and
muddy! There were check points like a mini
fox (flying) and the water chute looked…
AWESOME! It’s a shame that it lead to a
part where the cows were going to EAT US
(joking)! We then did initiative games. We
had four balls and we had to throw our
ball to someone opposite us, but a twist
was that you had to remember who you
passed it to. We also had to make letter A,
B, C etc. We lost by one point. Then we did
orienteering, which was fun. You had to
find letters which made a word which was,
sabretooth.
I can’t remember what we had for tea
that night but I remember that afterwards
we had ice-cream and jelly. We watched
Matilda until 9.00pm. When we went to
bed I was knackered and fell straight to
sleep.
Eating their way through Europe
Students in Year 5 had a special end of
term event to celebrate their learning in
Geography. The students had been studying
all aspects of Europe, looking at climates,
physical features and natural resources. They
each studied a particular European country
and completed some extensive research
on it, then wrote a speech to persuade
their audience to travel to their country. To
celebrate all of their hard work, the students
brought in a traditional dish from the country
they studied, dressed up in traditional
clothing or colours of that country and
shared their speeches with one another.
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When we walked through the door the
food smelled magnificent! It was amazing,
there was food from nearly all of the
countries in Europe. Everyone just wanted
to dig in and try something new. Dessert
was even better than main course and
we loved the vibrant colours to choose
from. It was fun dressing up in a variety of
costumes and trying to guess which country
our friends came from. At the end of the
Feast everyone got together for a photo to
remember our celebration together.
– Zane Murabito-Jones and
Angus Wilson (5W)
Day 3 (last day☹)
We had breakfast, which was cereal and
egg on toast. I only had cereal. We made
boomerangs after that. They were all very
good. After breakfast we tackled the BIG
FOX which was AWESOME. It was 200m
long, but it took a bit to get back up to the
fox again.
For lunch we had sausage rolls. Then we
loaded our bags into the trailer and boarded
the bus back to school. We got there at
3:15pm (about) unpacked our bags and
went home.
Love
Liam XOXOX