Melville Intermediate - Camp Ruatuna 2010

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Melville Intermediate - Camp Ruatuna Slideshow

On Friday 7th May we went to Camp Ruatuna. There were hundred of wasps! The first thing we did was drawing. We had to draw on a piece of paper something that was around the Camp. It it isn't as easy as it looks! You had to draw with not a pencil or a pen but we had to draw with a piece of charcoal from the fire, or mud or dirt or a flower. When I was doing this I saw some people doing firs aid, like something that you carry people on. After we had our lunch we went into the bush to make a shelter.
Recount Written by Isla, Room 8.

Melville Intermediate - Kaiya's Camp Recount

When we were going to Camp I thought that we'd be going by car but we went by bus to Lake Ruatuna. We only went for the day. We were doing four things at Camp. We had to make some Damper and cook sausages. Room 8's first task was to make a splinter and a stretcher and to carry one person on the stretcher, from a log to a trough that was our first task. Second was to make a bivouac. A bivouac is like a little house on the ground. I think there were five groups. I was by myself because I wanted to see if I could do it. Our third task was fun because that was the water-slide. We were on the waterslide for thirty minutes. The thirty minutes felt long but that was cool. On my first go going down the waterslide I was nervous because I asked the other two classes and they made me nervous. They were room 2 and 14. When I went down it wasn't even sore, it was fun. The slide was made out of a big tarpolin. After our turn was over we had to pack up and get changed to go back to school. Then we packed up everything else that we brought and we helped carry stuff back to the bus. Then we went back to school. When we got back from Lake Ruatuna we had to go to class. Then the bell rang to go home

Melville Intermediate - Y7 Camp 2

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Melville Intermediate - Camp Video 2

This is part two of challenge one - bush first aid. Students were split into groups and had to pretend a student had a broken leg and then, using material found only in the bush construct a stretcher for that person to be carried to safety. The students who were injured had to be lifted by one or more people in the group between the big log at the base of the main camp hill to a water trough about 50 meters away!