Everyone boarded the bus by 7.15 Monday morning, excited and ready to get going. First stop was Waiourou Army Museum. After an educational tour everyone got to dress up in Army and military uniforms. Anyone that didn’t follow instructions had to do push ups!!
After a good night’s sleep that first night, we ventured into Wellington city. Te Papa was first stop. So many things to see, but the colossal squid had to be a big favourite. Next it was over to Parliament, to be met there by Tony Ryall and then into the debating chamber to see our M P’s in action. We then headed back to Te Papa to view the Pompeii exhibition. It was very moving seeing the cast figures of real people that had been caught in the Mt Vesuvius eruption.
Movies. Camera. Action…. was the call on day three, as all room 1 students had important jobs so that we could film the show – This Is Your Life. Billy T James was interviewed and Jacob truly looked the part.
That day we all had the opportunity to lay down a soundtrack for a video game. Do take the time to go online to E TV Studio and see the work your child did. It was a fantastic day where everyone learnt so much. That night, after a lovely roast dinner meal we headed over to the H2O extreme pools where everyone flew down the hydroslides, and had fun in the wave pool and on the Tarzan swing.
Upon awaking on Day 4, the rain was falling heavily and the Wellington wind had picked up. Our trip to Somes Island had to be cancelled and instead we visited Weta Cave to learn about Peter Jackson and Richard Taylor’s team at Weta Workshop. Lunch was over hill in Seatoun at the spot where the Wahine ship went down. After lunch we headed into town for a quick shopping spree and then a ride up the hill on the cable car. That night it was a camp concert, which our camp mothers started with a rocking version of ‘Tonights going to be a good, good night’.
It was a busy morning getting packed up and on the bus on Friday morning by 9 am. A long trip home but everyone was tired and ready to head home to their families.
A big thank you to all our fantastic parents for making our Wellington camp a success and such a lot of fun.

Beautiful sunshine, great snow, and lots of people to ski with!!
That was how our ski trip was on the Thursday.
By Friday, the weather had closed in, but the bitterly cold wind did not deter the hardy students from our class who went out and rode the pommer in Happy Valley, as it was the only lift open. They continued to have fun with each other, skiing down backwards to test themselves when it was too easy.
Our parents hunkered down in the Happy Valley cafe, until the chair lifts began to operate. Eventually they opened and most adults got out skiing for the rest of the day.
Thank you to all of our wonderful parents that came on the ski trip. Your support was invaluable and I was grateful to many of you that took students off to other parts of the mountain, teaching and encouraging them to extend themselves and their skiing abilities. We had eleven students attend the beginning ski lessons and all were up and skiing within an hour.

SPORTS CAMP REVIEW
On the 28th – 31st of July Omokoroa No.1 School year 7 and 8 students attended sports camp at Totara Springs in Matamata everyone had a blast.
Eight school attended sports camp some of the school children were fantastic at sport. At camp we played pretty much every sport you can imagine it was a really cool experience.
The food was delicious they made us breakfast which was cereal, porridge and spaghetti on toast, for lunch and dinner we had allsorts of things the people that made the food were great.
At camp there were lots of things to do in your spear time like playing on the playground, buying things from the canteen on Thursday, swimming in the pool and lots of other things you can play with and in.
The accommodation was quite nice there were motels which we slept in last year they were very nice they had toilets, kitchen, and shower and was big. But this year we had to sleep in not such nice accommodation it was just a little room which fit ten girls and two extra beds it didn’t have a toilet but there was one just outside but it was nice having all the girls in our class to talk to.
Sports camp is a really great place to send your children they would have the best time and a really great thing about it is that you can send your kids to sports camp but not with there class they can go at any age just look on there website. It is such a great experience!
Reviewed but Alex Baskin

SPORTS CAMP REVIEW
On the 28^th-31^st of July the year seven and eights from Omokoroa no 1 school went to Totara Springs sports camp. We arrived on the Tuesday as well as 8 other schools from the north island.

Sports camp involved a wide rang of sports 24 in total, I  personally played ten different sports. We started our sports at around 11 o’clock on Tuesday, and it felt as if they would never stop, they were straight after each other for about five hours a day, for four days. Each sport was allocated 25 minutes each, so you had to go hard out and then sprint to the next event, and then go hard out again. Then we had dinner and quality living and maybe some more sports and by then it was about ten o’clock. By then we were feeling really tired. On the last day I was so tired so I thought long and hard and I decided to buy. . . . . a MOTHER (energy drink).

I liked sports camp I think it is rated 4/5, I advise it for the classes next year!!!

By Jonty McCool.

Minibeasts!!! We had a very enthusiastic speaker come and talk to the students about the importance of looking after all our minibeasts and their habitats. He had us all laughing and taught us lots of new facts.

From Minibeasts

We would like to congratulate Jonty, Alex, Michael and Jordan on their super effort at the Western Bay of Plenty Police Fitness Test.

From Police

We have been very busy this term with school camp at Lake Rotoiti, Tall Poppies Swimming, Quadathlons and our new interactive whiteboard.

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