Year Reflection, Goodbye Lake Brunner

 Just yesterday was my last day of primary school. Over the past eight years at Lake Brunner, I've made a lot of memories and I'm really going to miss my friends and teachers.

At the start of this year, I became a student council member, it was fun because we got to organise things like wheels day, and book character day, where our principal dressed as a snozzcumber off of the BFG.

I've also enjoyed the sports units we've had each term thanks to my teacher. There was badminton and softball, but I think this year handball was my favourite. If you've browsed through one of my posts about handball then you'll know the game I'm talking about. Long story short, our version of handball was basically a cross between netball and basketball. It was really fun.

This final term, my class and I had our school camp. We made camp base in Hokitika, and toured our way through town, taking a short trip to lake Kaniere on our first night for a freezing, but enjoyable swim. You can read more about it on one of my other blog posts named 'Highlights of Camp!' 

And of course we all loved the sailing this term with great thanks to Simon from 'have a go sailing!'

It's been a really amazing year for all of us kids at LBS, and if you're thinking of having your child enrolled at Lake Brunner School you can be sure they'll have a good time.

See you later to my best friends Morgan, Mackenzie, Kaelyn, Zoe and Tui. And thank you to my teacher Nic - it's been the best year ever!

Te Kinga's Big Day Out!

A few days ago, we had First Aid Day, and everyone in class learnt what to do in a situation involving injuries. The following day, our teacher Nic decided it would be a good test to see if the Te Kinga students could put their newfound skills and knowledge to good use.

So a few students in class were chosen to pretend they were hurt on our big day out around our tiny village of Moana. Kaelyn suffered hypothermia, I had a badly bruised leg, Jimi broke his arm, Morgan cut her hand and Tui endured a burn. It was quite funny really for the people acting, as the other students had no clue we had planned this experiment, but  after Kaelyn recovered instantly from her nasty case of hypothermia, they got the general idea. 

After our acting was done, it was time to test our survival skills. First we were split into groups and had the challenge of making tents given only a tarp apart from sticks and things you could collect from the land as equipment. And the tents had to be waterproof. If they weren't? Well, you got wet when Nic splashed a bucket of water over the top!

After our tent-making, we all made fires along the lakeside, and it was time to make smores before we headed back to school.