Weka Day Camp 2018

This year, Weka Day Camp was on 30th October for Rooms 1, Room 2 and half of Room 6, and on 31st October for Rooms 18, 5 and the other half of Room 6.  Unfortunately, we got the rainy day, but we didn't let it spoil our enjoyment.  We just buttoned up our raincoats and tried to ignore it.  Luckily, it had brightened up by the afternoon when we all went on the tramp together.

We would like to thank all the parents who came along, and helped us erect tents, cook sausages, tramp through bush, find orienteering stations and generally enjoy getting wet with us.

First, the bus trip . . . always lots of excitement in the air!

After morning tea, we were divided into three groups.  Each group rotated through three different activities, but in a different order.  After lunch, all groups went on the tramp together before returning to school on the bus.

We had to read maps to find different orienteering stations.

Connor is not looking too excited about the weather!

Amber looks OK with it, though.

It certainly was quite damp!

We found the orienteering stations anyway.

We had to work together to cook over an open fire - one person held the pan, while the other person turned the sausages.

Mrs Bear was pleased to see that some pans had extra sausages for cold, wet, hungry adults.

This was possibly the best bit of the camp cooking.

Luckily, we could put the tents up inside and stay nice and dry.

After all the work, it was good to be able to try the tents out.

Mrs Bear was pleased to see that they had the right sort of tents!

We learned about some of the trees in the New Zealand bush.  Rangiora is sometimes called 'Bushman's Friend' because, in the olden days, bushmen used its large soft leaves as toilet paper.

We also tried out the rimu leaves as combs to smarten ourselves up a bit.

Here is a map of the Auckland Botanical Gardens.