Year 4 Camp at Omatua

 Activity groups get together for the first time on Camp Prep. Day

Group 5

 Group 2

 Group 3

 Group 2

 Group 6

 Group 4

 Campers before departure from school

Entrance to Camp Omatua

 Day 1's rotation activities begin ...

Scavenger hunt

 Fire building

 River safety

 Boat building

 Scavenger hunt

 River study

 Bivouac building

 River study

 River safety

 Fire building and boat building 

 Searching for bivi materials

 Scavenger hunters

 Relaxing by the river 

 Boat building

 Testing the boat

 Boat alterations

 Boat test drive

 Bivi building

 River study 

 Boat test run

 Boat completed

 Boat building

 Chant prep.

 River walking 

 River study

 Ahhh!

 Fire building and chant prep.

 Boat building

 Scavenger hunt

 River study

 Boat building 

 Chant prep.

 River study

Testing the Titanic! 

 Bivi building

 Rehearsing group's chant

 Sorting scavenger hunt evidence

 River study!

 Boat test run

 Boat building 

 River crossing

 Bivi complete 

 River study 

 Group fire

 River safety

 Boat building

 Girls or boys cabin?

 Puddings!

 Bivi testing - all in! 

 Swing bridge walk

 Weka camp site

 River fun at Weka

 Back at Omatua - tubing begins

 Bayly's cockabully

 Mudslides!

 Afternoon tea time

 Beautiful boats!

 Boat race upside down results

 Camp fire

 Our tubes

 Some of our stuff!

 Scavenger hunt evidence

 More river fun

 Group camp fires - marshmallow time

 Mucking around at camp

 Food prep!

 Some shade!

  Heaps of river fun! 

 Eel guts!

 Steps!

 Those tubes again

  Camp business

 Off to race the boats!

 Groups prepare for chant off

 Campers sing the school song

 More marshmallow roasting!

 Time for some camp reflections

 More food prep!

 Poetry sharing

 Lunch - Yum!

 Rest while you can!

 Here we go again!

 Another snack 

 Fill those drink bottles! 

 More bivi testing 

   

  

  

 

 A gathering of campers

 More fire lighting

 Going somewhere!

 Riverside

 Shhhh! 

 Look out! 

 Cuddle? 

  Number off?

 More cooking 

 BBQ time!

 Those tubes again!

Night eeling

 Washing the eels

Smoker

 Smoked eel - Yum!

Teacher cleaning glasses

 Miss Leach visits 

 More chants 

 Casmpers sing Individuality

 Boys do the Haka 

 More reflections

  More snacks

 Last river swim! 

 End of camp prize giving 

 Time to leave

 What a fantastic camp!

Thank you campers for making it so much fun!