Yr 6 Camp News  by Yr 6 students 

Our trip to Camp Patterson outside Mareeba will definitely be the highlight of our year and was just fantastic!   The food was amazing, activities fun and motivating, lots of emphasis on teambuilding and using people’s strengths.  Taking risks was a big focus as well.  I am so proud of the way each student encouraged each other, showed leadership and acted in a mature way (well most of the time!).   Miss Libby 

General camp information 

There were two teams, Blue team which contained Sienna, Jake, Jasmine, Liam, Kai, Jaiden and Angus. The other was Red with Luke, Sophie, Ramona, Jess, Tom, Charlie and Kyan. The teams had their own advantages and disadvantages. There was a point system so each time a team won an activity they got 200 points and the other got 150. In the end red got 3760 points and blue got 3655 points, it was only 105 points away from each other. The reward was bragging rights.  

The cabins were sorted by boys and girls. In cabin 7 there was Jaiden Tom and Jake, cabin 8 was Jasmine, Sophie, Sienna, Ramona and Jess, cabin 6 there was Angus, Liam and Charlie. In cabin 5 there was Kai, Kyan and Luke.  

At 7:30 each morning we would have breakfast and then at 10:40 we would have morning tea usually for snacks we had oranges, apples and rockmelon. Lunch was 1:30 and 3:30 was afternoon tea then at 6:00 we had dinner. When we ate we had to sit in our teams then Scott would choose out of red and blue for who would eat first and the team that got chosen had to say ladies first. We had tucker bags full of cutlery and bowls and plates. In Between the food breaks we would be doing activities such as raft building, archery, Rogaine, Wipe out, Draw bridges, capture the flag and much more.  

JESSICA 

Rogaine 

Rogaine is a game made from the names of 3 people. Rob Phillips, Gail Davis and Neil Phillips.  Rogaine is a fun active game where people get into groups of 2.  You are given a map, a stopwatch, compass and a pen.  You have to follow the directions on the map, run around and look for a sign with a number, letter or symbol on it.  These were on lots of landmarks around camp.  We had a limited time and had to then solve the riddle using the letters we found. 

LUKE 

Canoes 

In canoeing we had to listen to Scott for like 10 minutes for our safety talk and then after the 10 minutes of listening we got to get in the canoes. Then we had a race in the dam from the end around island and back and then we had to collect as many little balls as we could that Scott chucked in the water and the team that collected all the balls quickest gets the 200 points. Then after that we had to collect as many lily pads as we could and then we had a war with the lily pads. 

CHARLIE 

Spider walk 

Plank walk was a game where there were handles on one side of the wood plank and another plank with handles on it and the person at the front called left right. If he called out left we had to pull on the left handles and lift our legs up to walk forwards and every one had to walk at the exact same time or that person would fail the whole step.  

On Spider walk we had to get everyone across the spider web and you could not touch the web or anything around it, so we put the smaller people down in the small holes on the bottom of the spider web. When there was Jasmine and Jaiden left, Kai would carry us through the hole that hadn't been used and we finished in only 34 seconds which the blue team won.           JAIDEN 

Obstacle course 

On the last day of camp activities we did a teambuilding activity where we had to get our team of 7 through an entire obstacle course and finish as fast as we could. This makes it seem relatively easy to complete but there was a twist. We had to get a big doll, the size of a person, on a stretcher bed through with us. The stretcher was allowed to touch the ground but not water, Betty (the doll) was not allowed to touch the ground or water. We were allowed to take her off the stretcher and we were allowed to touch them both. These rules made the challenge a lot harder but we still got through the challenge in a pretty good time.   THOMAS 

Archery 

During our Year 6 camp one of the many activities was Archery. Archery required patience and focus to even land somewhere on the target. We were given normal bows but from time to time we were able to use compound bows. The aim of archery is to try to get a bullseye for points. The best people at archery were Jessica, Jasmine and Jake who scored around 3 bullseyes each. Overall archery was an exciting activity. 

Angus 

PLUGGA 

We had to fill the pipe up with water but the pipe had lots of holes drilled out of  it. We had to use our fingers and toes and some people used their nose and tongue to plug the holes!!! We had to get the water from the dam but it was really slippery and muddy. The challenge was to grab the ping pong ball when it floated on top. Teamwork was super important. 

LIAM 

Capture the flag 

During Year 6 camp we played 4 games of capture the flag and the Red team won 3-0. The blue team nearly won the fourth game. Liam, Jaiden and I (Jake) kept throwing the pin but that didn’t work because Luke kept tagging us whenever we grabbed the flag from the air. Whenever Jaiden, Liam and I went to the other team's base we would get the flag and then Sophie would chase us into Luke then Luke would tag the person with the flag and we would have to but the flag back at the red’s base. But overall we all had so much. 

JAKE 

Raft building 

I was in the blue team and one of our activities was raft building. It was amazing. We had to work as a team to create a raft for our prince and princess. The prince and princess were on either side of the dam and the rest of the team had to make a raft that would pick them up and take them to shore so that they could do a dance together. Once their dance had finished, we then dropped them back to where they started so that the timer would stop. The blue team had trouble with the ropes and had to hold the ropes together. The blue team got the raft building done in 49 minutes and the red got it in 59 minutes. The blue team won at the raft building since the prince and princess didn't get wet and we did it in the fastest time. The red teams raft didn't start off well since they put the raft upside down in the water, the ropes then went slack so then they had to hold the pipes together with their arms once they put the prince and princess back it immediately fell apart so then had to go and collect all the equipment, they also lost one rope so then Luke went down to find it and surprisingly he found it before time. In my opinion I thought that raft build was extremely fun and was a good team building game for everyone. You get to know people's strengths and weaknesses such as Liam was extremely good at tying knots and one of my weaknesses was the water was so cold I thought that I was going to die of hypothermia but overall it was one of the best activities that we did.   :)    

JASMINE  

Drawbridge 

Red team was given the activity called drawbridge. We were given 3 planks with rope tied on one end on each of the planks. There was tarp laid on the ground which played a role as lava, and there were concrete stones used as stepping stones. The objective was to get your entire team across the lava without touching the lava or the stepping stones. Firstly our team discussed the easiest route to take and how we would get the planks to where we wanted them. Then we started taking action. We lifted up the first plank vertically, then someone would put pressure on the bottom whilst 2 or 3 people held the rope tightly and lowered it slowly with someone on the side guiding to where the stepping stone was. Once the first plank was down 3 people went across the plank when 4 others picked up the 2nd plank and passed it to the others. We repeated the first exercise being careful not to fall off. Then we moved across to the 2nd plank and 2 team members moving onto the first plank. We passed the last plank over and repeated the same exercise for the last plank. Once everyone was on the 2nd and 3rd plank we had to flip the first plank the other way so that we could reuse the plank and lower it down like a drawbridge. We fell off a couple of times which meant we had to start over. But each time we learnt from our mistakes and discussed better ways and safer ways to do it in a reasonable time. In the end Blue team won with 4 minutes and Red team came in second with 9 minutes. Everyone was a good sport about it and had heaps of fun.   SOPHIE  

WIPEOUT 

On Year 6 camp we did the water wipeout course. We had to do the course as a team as fast as we could. The course had a hamster wheel, 2 slides,a trampoline and a climbing obstacle. Our team did it in 9 minutes and the other team did it in 11minutes. We also had to drag Brad into the triangle. We also had to go back and do the dog bone obstacle again because everyone fell off the first time. Last man standing of heaps of fun. 

KYAN 

Mini Golf / Damper  

For our teams we added our own ingredients like (chocolate chips, mini marshmallows) and it was a competition so we had to be judged by the way it looked, tasted, and smelled. Mr Simmons was one of the judges he told us who won. If it tasted dry or undercooked your team would get second which is 150 points if your team came first you got 200 points . Then he described how it tasted and looked.Then the blue team won and it tasted great and  after we got to try our own  dampers . Mini golf was so much fun. The blue team split off into a group of two then we all started at different holes and tallied up how many times it took to get the golf ball in the hole then we did one by one and at the end we then added all the time it took us to get the golf balls in the hole and the group with the less hits won the round.      

SIENNA     

The amazing night of Lip sync battle 

On a very cold night at camp on Thursday night we all sat around the campfire and these are the songs we had a Lip sync battle too. (Men’s not hot, Single lady, Barbie girl, Muffin time, Let it go, Git up). After all of that some of us shared songs that reminded us about someone. 

Ramona  

Survivor shelter 

While we were on Year six camp one of our activities was survivor shelter. We had certain materials such as old bits of canvas, poly pipe, bamboo, carpet, life jackets and barrels. 

We had 45 minutes to build a shelter to protect us from “cyclone Scott” which was a fire hose sprayed at your shelter by Scott and you had to not get wet or you didn't get the point. Both teams did a top design and the blue team one.   KAI