Year 5/6
Celebrating Learning
The Summit Camp
By Luca, 5/6C
Day 1
When I arrived at school on Wednesday, my head was clouded with excitement and nerves. My Mum pulled up to the curb and my Dad helped me to carry my bags to the shade sail. After my bags were safely under the shade sail, I went to the art room to sign in my medication. After my medication was safely with Joyce, I played footy until Raph made an announcement over the speaker telling all the grade five and sixes to go to the shade sail. He then separated the grade fives so they could do their NAPLAN, and while they were doing NAPLAN the grade sixes started loading the buses.
When the grade fives finished NAPLAN, we were ready to go. Me and my bus partner Milo talked the whole way to camp, so the bus trip flew by. When we got to camp the bus dropped us and our baggage off at the bus shelter and we walked up the steep hill to our cabins. When we got to our cabins, we got sorted into our cabin groups to make our beds.
When we had made our beds, we went down to the BBQ shelter to get into our activity groups. I was in group six and our first activity was ‘The Summit window’. We had to climb up a really, really tall tower and then as if that wasn’t high enough, we had to climb up a two-meter-tall ladder and hang on with no hands. Before you ask, we had a harness on. After our first activity we had about an hour and a half of free time at the park and then it was dinner. After a delicious dinner of chicken schnitzel, we did a quiz consisting of three rounds of about ten questions and then we went to bed.
Day 2
On the morning of day two, I woke up at about six thirty, and everyone went down to breakfast at eight o’clock. After breakfast we got back into our groups. The activities we had before lunch were the cave challenge, bag blitz, and inflatables.
My favourite out of those was the cave challenge. You started by going into a small room and one by one you went down a ladder, turned one-hundred and eighty degrees, and started walking forwards making sure to keep your hand on the right-hand wall. After a while of pitch blackness, you came to a door with strings hanging down from the top of the frame. You went through that door and came into a dimly lit room. There you waited for the rest of your group to arrive.
After inflatables (and all you need to know about that is that it’s a giant inflatable obstacle course), we had delicious burgers for lunch. After eating, we did a giant monster course which mostly consisted of getting muddy. At the end we got the worst news of our lives… We had to do it all again. After the monster course we got to go on a really fun water slide to wash off. Once we had finished this, we all showered and changed before eating dinner and watching The Road to Eldorado and going to bed.
Day 3
On day three, I woke up at about the same time and went down to the stadium to eat pancakes for breakfast. After this, we did our teeth and went down to the BBQ shelter for the last two activities of camp. My group had the rock wall and The Snowy River challenge. The rock wall was basically just a rock wall, except it had other things you could climb up like tyres. The Snowy River challenge was like a small monster course, with balance beams and a series of “dangerous” obstacles.
Overall camp was an incredible experience. One that I’ll never forget.
Ella - “I am really proud of myself for being able to go to the very top of the Summit Window. At the top I held on with one hand and two feet.”
Ivy - “Timmy’s Tower was scary, but I jumped off it! I super-stretched myself. I slayed!”
Delilah - “The Monster Course was really fun, but it was hard to run around together as a team whilst holding onto two tyres. Dodging the huge swinging balls connected to another person was exhilarating.”