The Cay

In our class we have been doing alot of work on one story- The Cay. It is a moving and thrilling story about a boy called Philip who lives on an island, that is being attacked by German U-boats. He and his mother try to leave for Miami, the ship that they leave on is shot and sank by a torpedo. Philip scrambles onto a life raft and ends up blind, floating out at sea with a black man that he doesn't even know. The way Philip was brought up by his mother, is horrible because she was racist so Philip was too, so he didn't trust the black man (called Timothy). They ended up on a little, unidentified island so they make shelter, and a water catch. Timothy knows that he is old and will get weaker and weaker, day by day so even though Philip is blind Timothy tries to train Philip to do things for himself more. Sure enough, one day on the Cay (hey that rhymes!) a huge storm came upon the Philip and Timothy, and Timothy dies protecting Philip. Philip is later on picked up by an old schooner, and is fixed up. Having surgery made his vision come back. Racism is wrong and this story tells you that.

KEWL CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Thursday we had our camp at Cable Bay. It was one of the most totally awesomeness awesome camps I've ever been on! When we got there we played on the trampoline that they had there, and then we were given a briefing of what to do. After that we started to set up the tents! We slept in David's tent and it was really simple when we set it up. ( well kind of simple.) When we had them all up we loaded them with luggage. That was cool and before I knew it, we had the tents up and we were on the way to paint balling. When we got there we had to put adult sized overalls on. Adult sized. Most of us also went on an awesome truck thing with seats on the back we went through the river, up a hill and at the arena. We got a cool briefing and we were given our weapons. We played capture the flag for two rounds of 20 mins and then headed back. Oh and the truck thing is called the troop mover . We went back to the beach where we had a BBQ. And then it rained on us. We had a good night's sleep and the next morning we headed up Peppin Island! On the way up Jonathan asked us to climb up a steep hill for good side-on camera shots. Then we kept going. On our first view of Delaware Bay, we drew a picture of it from black and white pastels. Then we got to telephone point and had a rest. We could see the trig so we moved fast. We did move fast up the ridge and then we made lunch at the trig. We had wraps with nice fillings and then we took the steep way down the hill which was fun. We got to a path and then me and my friends spent the whole way down talking about stuff. We could see the bottom and then before I knew it... We were there! On the way back in the cars I was tired but felt good. IT WAS A TOTALLY AWESOMENESS AWESOME CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAMPIDDY CAMP CAMP CAMP!!!!!!!!

WOO HOO! We are going on camp to Cable Bay tomorrow! I am so excited and can't wait for PAINT BALLING! We are also going up Peppin Island and it looks like an awesome walk after we watched the camp video in 2006. We have already sorted tents and cars so I am so happy! All I have to do now is make some home baking and pack! I can't wait for camp, especially PAINT BALLING! It will be so cool for the BBQ too because we have 100 sausages heaps of other cool stuff. Camp will be sweet!

Totara Swimming Carnival

On the 2nd of March, 2010 the Totara syndicate had their swimming carnival! As I came up to all of my races I was really nervous . First I did Freestyle, then breastroke and then backstroke. I did the piggy back race, hold your breath event and then the relays. I was in the B team for room 7. We came 3rd and the A team came 2nd. I came 2nd in freestyle, 4th in breastroke and 3rd in backstroke. It was raining cold and fun!

WOO HOO! STUDENT COUNCIL!

Hello! I am really happy because for the second time, I am in the student council ! I was in it last year as a year 5 and now I'm in with my friend Lachie who is also a year 6 rep also. The year 5 rep is da da da DAAAAAAA... David! I am all friends with these people so it should be a great year for me. I hope, and the other councellors hope that we can make your opinions heard, let you and the school have a say about what they think we can make better for the school and and make this an awesome year!