Cross Country

Team Maui Cross Country

Cross-country is a thing when you run a long way. But at Addington school we made a track that went from our playground, past the office, behind room 9- 10- 11, in the playground near the road, around and back to the school grounds. There were three races, the “high heel walkers” competitive runners and non competitive. The walkers had to walk but the non-competitive and competitive had to run. All of us were exhausted after our races. Then we cheered for the competitive group. At the end Mr Leslie called out the people who got a place. We all went to the park to play and then later we had lunch. We were very tired because the whole thing was tiring. Some of the children are going to the Zones at Halswell Quarry. Cross-country is good because you get to exercise and get energised. That’s why we like cross-country.

By Caroline, Emily and Jamie

Year 4 Camp

On Thursday we went to stay at the South Brighton Holiday park. First we went to the beach and had a scavenger hunt. While we were doing this, a man caught a shark and we got to throw it back into the water. Lots of us had turns at swinging it in. We made sandcastles and buried Ms Walker in the sand. She was a mermaid. Tasi and Serena were supposed to get a bucket of water to make the sand wet, but they were fighting over it and the water went all over Ms Walker’s face! After that we had a swim and got to jump out in the waves.

We went to the camping ground and got to sleep in cabins with our friends.

The playgrounds were fun especially the one at Kibblewhite park because it had a flying fox.

We went for a Nature walk on Friday and tried to find the birds on the estuary.

We dug up lots of crabs and they nipped some of us.

Thank you to our wonderful helpers – Juanita, Amy, Aimee, Tony, Bill, Emma, Miss Sanders, Ms Walker and Mrs Craib.

Our camp was lots of fun