Year 7 Camp
What a jam packed three days of fun we have all had. We began with a trip to The Nobbies for a stroll on the boardwalk, before going to the Wildlife Park where we fed kangaroos, emus, and wallabies and saw a variety of plant and bird life.
We arrived at camp settled in to our first activities including the flying fox, archery, the giant swing and rock climbing.
On evening number one, we had a disco and boogied away!
The second day begin with a beach walk and we played some games in the sand including Magic Shoes and Fox Holes. The students enjoyed the sea air and the sand. We returned to camp to complete a rotation of the activities before we sat down to dinner, Taco Tuesday!
We sang Happy Birthday to one of our happy campers and showcased some Year 7 talents in a talent show, which provided us with many laughs, smiles and appreciation of our students. We then took off on a walk to the pier before we returned to tuck in for our final night’s sleep at CYC, The Island.
Junior Sub School Team
The Year 7 camp recap by Alex Rees (7D)
It started as a long bus trip that wasn’t that bad from Emerald SC to Phillip Island, with a couple of cool things to look at along the way. Roadside sculptures, beaches and everyone was hyped to see the bridge towards Phillip Island.
The first thing we arrived at was The Nobbies centre and boardwalk around lunch time. We saw the amazing blow hole at the end of the boardwalk, which was very splashy and cold. We headed off to the wildlife park where there were so many cool animals!
There were koalas, wallabies, kangaroos, emus, lizards, turtles, snakes, bats, cool birds, Tasmanian devils, rabbits etc. We were even able to hand feed the majority of them all!
Instead of taking the bus to camp we did a 30-minute walk from the wildlife park which was exhausting in some opinions but fun in others.
After about ten minutes of settling in, we went to the rec for our first activity, there were many different activities including giant swing, the circatron, archery, flying fox, mechanical wall and so on.
My group had the circatron first, it was a circle that your harnessed into, then is spun around. There are three circles, white, red and blue and they all spin you in different directions and it’s really crazy.
Now onto the morning of the next day. Everybody took a walk to the beach for some team games. Fox holes (my favourite) and magic shoes. Fox holes was a red light green light based game, although if you’re seen you’re out. The players have 5 to 10 minutes to dig a bunch of fox holes to hide in over the beach, then you must get from hole to hole until you pass the line without being seen. Next was magic shoes, only one person has the shoes on at a time and must carry people to the other side of the beach. If you’ve already had the shoes you cannot move back to pick everyone up, so each person must use the shoes to get every across the line to win. Then we headed back for the next few activities, there was archery, shoot a bow at the target and try get a bullseye. Mechanical wall was small rock climbing wall the rotates and moves around as you climb. On the giant swing you are put in a harness on a 15 metre tall swing, then the rest of the group pulls a rope for you to go up. Then when we are ready, pull a cord and swing down. Flying fox, you’re sent up a 7 metre tall platform with a harness on, then you get attached to the line and zoom down the line.
