William Pike Challenge- Rock Climbing

 

Monday 20th June, 2016

On Monday the 20th June, the year 7 and 8’s went Rock Climbing at CattleStop Crag, which is in the Port Hills. We were going Rock Climbing for the William Pike Challenge Award. We all travelled by car, I was in Andrea’s car with, Jacob, Prudence, Bella P and Bella N.

At the start of the morning I was very anxious and excited at the same time. I was anxious because I’ve hardly ever been Rock Climbing. And excited because I was glad I got to spend a day with my friends and a day away from school.

Finally when everyone got to school we set off to the Port Hills! Immediately as we got to the top of Summit Road we jumped out of the cars, we all grabbed a helmet and harness and followed our instructors Josh and Steven down the track to where we were going to be climbing. Then Josh talked to us about the values of rock climbing. Our Values were “Pride and Resilience”. And then he told us how they affect our everyday lives. ‘Resilience’ means to be tough and don’t give up. And ‘Pride’ means to be pleased with your own accomplishments.

After Josh and Steven finished explaining what we were going to be doing, they chose six people to go abseiling while everybody else was climbing.  When it was my turn to climb, I decided to start on the easiest wall.  I started climbing up the wall, I was having a bit of trouble at the start because

I couldn’t find a place to put my feet. I eventually made it up to the top. Now it was time to climb down.

I was very nervous about climbing down because it was a long way down.

Eventually I started climbing down slowly but quickly.

When I got to the bottom, I said ‘I want to do that again’.

Sadly it was nearly time to go back to school, there was only three people left to go abseiling, it was Base, Prudence and I . We walked over to the hill where we were going to be walking backwards off a cliff! Prudence went first, Base went second and I went lucky last. When it was my turn Steven asked me if I knew what the best part of going last was, I said no, he said it was because you get to make a grand entrance. At first I thought it was only Mrs Royfee, Prudence, Base and Jacqui, but it turned out that everyone was down there. When I got down to the bottom everyone got asked what they were proud of. I said making it up to the top of the rock wall.

I really enjoyed our Rock Climbing for the William Pike Challenge and can’t wait for our next!

100WC

This week's 100 Word Challenge was very easy at sometimes, but also very hard because sometimes I had too many words.
Here it is:


I had just got an invitation to Japan, it turns out I was invited to a performance of people playing violins. I couldn’t wait!
I was so excited.

It was time for my flight. I then realised that I forgot to pack my violin! 

I stared at the clock to see what time it was, It was time to walk over to ‘Gate 7’, as I was walking I saw someone eating some yellow peppers. I thought to myself I don’t think I’ve ever eaten yellow peppers before.

I was now on my plane, the Airplane swept off into the sky.

Beautiful Sunrise

The other day, I woke up really early to a beautiful sunrise.

I got a few pictures but this was my favourite.

Kapahaka

Every Wednesday our school have a Kapahaka lesson where we do Maori dances and songs.
Here is a video of our lesson.

100 Word Challenge

This week's challenge was really hard because we had to think about a conversation between a man and a statue.

I was waiting patiently for Air NZ Flight 560 to fly back to my hometown, Leeds, a northern city in England. I couldn’t wait to see my beautiful GrandChildren.

I had been waiting for about 2 hours, I was so tired of standing, so I decided to find a park bench outside a restaurant, where I could also have a bite to eat.

Finally I found a park bench. There was a man sitting there, as still as a statue. We started chatting about worldly news. “How do you feel about everything that’s happening around the world right now?”, he asked politely, “I’m not really sure, I replied.”