Education outside the Classroom - Lake Pupuke

In Room 29, we are looking at challenging ourselves and learning new things. As part of that learning we went to Lake Pupuke last Tuesday, the 1st of March to try our hands at some learning outside the classroom. We did a lot of cool fun things like raft building, making pancakes, building camp fires and adventure based activities and games that required lots of team work and problem solving strategies.

All of us ended up challenging ourselves in one way or another and some of us found all the things challenging, but fun at the same time. For the majority of us racing the rafts we had built was the highlight of the day.

We consider ourselves very lucky, as we got to do all those fun things, while we remembered that it was exactly a week since Christchurch had, had the terrible earthquake and the people there are still meeting challenges of their own. We wish them strength to carry on and rebuild their city and wish we could have more such cool fun learning days outside the classroom.