Last week on Tuesday morning the year 6 kids of Point England School got up early to get to school before 7:00am to go to Kawau island for our camp. The Camp is called camp Bentzon and we went there from Tuesday to Friday. At school we waited for the bus to come and take us to sandspit then we had to wait for the ferry to come and take us to the Kawau Island. We were all in eight different groups like Katz A and B, Kawau A and B, Mansion A and B and Bentzon A and B.
As we got off the ferry we unloaded it and carried our luggage to our cabins, then we had morning tea and then we had free time for the rest of the day and at around 6:00 we had dinner and our dinner was chicken drumsticks with potatoes and dessert we had ice cream. After dinner we had more free time and at 10:00pm we finally went to our cabins and went to sleep.
The next day we had breakfast then Bentzon A the group I was in went sailing. At the beach we waited for our instructor to come. Our instructors name was Peter and he showed us how to sail a boat and gave us tips. Some of us were allowed us to be by ourselves but I had a partner and his name is Matiu he held the rope from the sail while I steered the boat we sailed to a red roofed house. The waves were bumping making our boat go up and down. When we got to the red roofed house we then turned and sailed back to the beach we did the several times then we sailed back to shore and had morning tea before we went to our next activity.
Our last activity was bivouac. Bivouac is when you build something to cover you, and you have to use the things you have and the things around you like sticks. When we did it we went up the hill where we went for our morning run there is a fitness trail and we did it every morning, and in that are there are a lot of wood and sticks and we used those to build shelter and then we had to pour water on it to see if it was water proof and we have to go under our shelter. As I got under my wood shelter and when the water was poured I hardly got wet!
I had lots of fun at camp my favourite thing was the food and sailing. My experience at Kawau island will stay with me forever I would really recommend this for the year fives because you get to do loads of fun stuff and learn new things. the things I learnt was the wildlife and how to sail a boat and how to use a compass, I will miss Kawau Island.
Lucy's Camp Bentzon from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
Here's a movie I made about Camp Bentzon
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