Trip
to Eastern Beach
Last Monday the
whole school went on a trip to Eastern Beach. We got on the back of the beast
and raced down to the beach. Once we got to there we all walked over to
the reserve where Mr. Johnston was standing, and we sat down. He told us
our rules for being at the beach.
We all sprinted
to a spot where our teacher told us to. We had morning tea then went out to
play on the sand. The sand was boiling hot and was full of broken
seashells everywhere. It was like walking over bits of glass just scattered all
over the place. The sand wasn’t clean white like the paradise beaches, it
was dark and dirty.
Room 9 &
Room 6 were both split into 4 groups, A, B, C and D this was for Kayaking. The year
7 & 8’s were thrilled to go kayaking. Ms. Kirkpatrick did a short
training with each of the groups about how to grab the paddle and row. She also told us the do’s and don'ts
while on kayaks.
On land Mrs.
Anderson was on ‘grass time’ for the whole day. She watched over everyone while
Ms. Kirkpatrick was teaching us kayaking skills. Everyone was
ecstatic. We played cricket and rugby, built sandcastles and explored.
When it was our groups turn to go kayaking we listened to Ms. Kirkpatrick
very carefully. After she had talked to us about kayaking we all got in a kayak
and blitzed off towards the pink bottle that was floating. It was scary for me
because I nearly fell out countless times.
Once we all got
to the bottle we all got close together, holding the kayaks next to us, while
they were doing the same. Ms. Kirkpatrick asked Leila and Isaac to stand
up and walk across the kayaks. Leila walked across the back while Isaac walked
across the front it was hard to watch, but it would’ve been funny if one of
them fell in. After we did all of that we played tag. The taggers were Ms.
Kirkpatrick and Mr. Grady, they had to tag us by touching our kayak with their
paddles. If we were tug we had to hold our paddle up until a non-tagger touched
our kayak with their paddle. It was very hard trying to get away from Mr. Grady
because he was just too quick.
Once we all were
tug, Faitele and I were the taggers. I could hear Ms. Kirkpatrick laughing at
me saying “NA-NA-NA NA-NA!” over in the distance. I knew I should go
after her but I went after Mr. Grady for revenge. As I came up behind him my
arms started to tire. I was running out of energy so I stopped. He was lucky he
got away. After that awesome game of tag we got together and had a race
back to shore. It was a close game between me and Ms. Kirkpatrick but
unfortunately... I won!!! WOOHOO!
After everyone
got to shore and since we were the last group to go kayaking we had to help Mr.
Grady and Ms. Kirkpatrick put the kayaks on the trailer, they were heavier than
I thought they would be. After that Ms. Kirkpatrick had a swim but Mrs
Anderson still didn’t get to go have a swim, she just had the wonderful grass
time.
At the end of
the day we lined up and walked towards the bus I thought to myself
“ I don’t think
this day could have gone any better” especially because I got to play my Xbox
when I got home.
Kane