Amazing Race Fun

The Amazing Race

On Monday the 17th of March Rooms 7,8,9 and some of Room 6 were at the beginning of their big adventure [activity week]. For Rooms 8 and 9, and some of Room 6, it was the amazing race. First we were told our teams and were given a sheet with 34 challenges to do around the school. You had to try your best to complete them all before morning tea. One of them was you could make 3 paper planes, (at the most) and once you got 3 in the recycling bin, you would write down how many tries it took. I thought it was the hardest. Next we got given an adult to supervise us. My group was given Bob (Gina’s mum).Then we were given another sheet with 6 challenges on it, but this time it was around Oakura. Although, like every amazing race there was a twist. We were only allowed to cross the road on the pedestrian crossing, for some teams this was a real challenge.One of the challenges was to create a scene outside of the surf life saving club on the beach. My team did one of someone saving someone (Bobs idea). Finally it was the race back to school. Luckily Bob knew a short-cut back through the back of the park, which helped a lot.

A big thank you to anyone who helped make it happen, and to all the parents who helped as well, it really made a difference to us, as you can see.

By Grace. 

The amazing race was actually amazing!

The day started off with rooms 8 and 9 in one classroom to get put into teams. The first part of the amazing race we did around the school. There were more than 30 challenges. My favourite activity was the paper plane activity where you had to throw paper planes into a recycling bin. The hardest was the ball throwing activity because all the team members had to throw 3 balls into a bucket in a row.

The rest of the activities were around the village and were really fun. We had to take photos of what we did for some activities.

Thank you to the teachers for organising the week and the parents for helping out to.

By James.