Kayaking Skills with Tai Poutini Polytech

 

Thank you to Tully, Grace, Brody, Kalani and Phil for the opportunity to build our kayaking skills.  This was a challenging and rewarding session.  We really appreciated the patience shown, trust built, and fun had.  We hope you call on us for some flat water kayaking in the great outdoors next!

Polly Pekapeka

This week we enjoyed learning about pekapeka.  This learning was ignited by a visit from Polly Pekapeka, courtesy of Forest and Bird.  We took Polly on a few adventures around the school while we worked on our individual blog posts about Aotearoa / New Zealand's pekapeka.  Thanks for visiting!

Karmi had to search to see Polly Pekapeka in this setting.  She has great camouflage.

Polly found a relaxing pekapeka use for a COVID mask.

This mamaku leaf did not match Polly's camouflage.

Polly was intrigued by this fungi!

Finally a perfect burrow in a tree for Polly.

The dusk was approaching when Polly took flight.

Polly thought that the weather was a little makariri.

Polly tried out the swing on the bush track.

Polly was exhausted after all of her adventures!

Wilderness Trail Ride - Karoro to Kumara & Return

 

On April 8th Ruma Waru cycled from Karoro School, Watson's Creek through to Kumara and back!  This was an epic trail ride and everyone showed incredible resilience. 

Huge shout out to our awesome support crew: Louise, Tracey, Rachael, Ainslie, Joel, Angus, Sarah, Corrie, and Netty (and Neil).

Most students made the full return trip but a few were brave enough to ask for support and to receive a car ride back to base. 

We covered approximately 44kms.

 

2022 William Pike Challenge Beach Cook Out

 Ruma Waru learned about camp fire safety; ways to build safe camp fires, how to safely light a camp fire and how to safely extinguish a camp fire. We were allowed a maximum of four matches per group and the challenge was to light the campfire using only one match... congratulations to Emma and Lucy who did this for their group. We also had to work in groups to develop and cook our meal on the camp fire. As you can see we did a great job!