Mount Robert

On the 15 September Room 7 went on a day tramp up Mount Robert to increase our endurance and experience an Alpine environment.

We all got to school at around 7:30am so that we could get our gear checked and we had a run through of the day. We were on the bus by 8:00am. On the way there Trevor (A resource scientist from Tasman District Council) who is also Emily-Rose's Dad, gave us an interesting talk all about the plants , trees , water and bush-life .

When we got to the information centre in St Arnaud we had morning tea while Mr J told us all about a Maori carving and the legend to go with it .

At around 10:30am we traveled to Buller bridge in the bus , then we traveled in a mini bus to the top

car park which took three trips and we had to wait till the rest of the group came up.

At 11.00am we started our tramp up Mount Robert . We had a break every 10 minutes to eat and drink something . We got to the first hut at 12:30pm where we had a break , that was when we had our first big shower of snow . Our next hut was the bushline hut by the time we got there it was very heavilysnowing!! Not longafter that the class had a big snow fight outside relax hut . Cara made a R E A L L Y B I G snowball ,so Mr J said if she brought it back to Nelson he would give her Incentive points !!!

But on the way back it broke :(

The trip back down the mountain was a lot faster than the trip up because we were mostly just going downhill . We got to the bottom carpark around 4:30pm.The trip back was very quiet because everybody was sleepy-_- . We got back to Broadgreen at 6:10pm , where our parents were waiting . We all really enjoyed the trip because it was a great experience and we got to go outside of the classroom .

Room 7 Rock Climbing

Room 7 Rock Climbing

This morning room 7 had a great time on the rock climbing wall in the hall.

Mr J taught us all the information we needed to know to stay safe when we were climbing up the wall, and when we were belaying for the climber.

For those of us who

aren't too confident on the climbing wall or have never done it before, there is the easy wall. It slopes slightly towards the wall like this /. The next wall is straight up, and the next one has slightly less footholds. The next wall slopes slightly out

wards. The walls get easier as they go along from left to right. The last wall is the hardest and slopes

outwards, and has a ridge we have to go up and around.

If you are reasonably confident on the rock climbing wall, you could try to do it blindfolded, said Mr J. 'Yeah right!' We don't think any of us will be ready to try that any time soon! We all need a bit of practice!

Some people missed out due to us running out of time, but we all really enjoyed it and hope we get to do it again next term!

Thanks for reading!

By Sophie and Michaela