• Meeting challenges – group and individual
• Working in different groups
• For some, being away from the home comforts
• Trying new foods
• Personal fitness challenges
• Co-operating with other adults
• Accepting rules

• Water cycle and hydroelectricity principles.
• Landforms and explanations – formation of the lake and legend of the lake.
• Living World: bush environment – trees, ferns, fungi, birds, insects, interdependence.
• Art – sketching, charcoal drawings.
• Writing – keeping a diary, shared stories
• Reading: maps, signs, instructions, rules, worksheets
• PE and Health:
• Social Science: History of the area; Te Kooti; Redoubt

• Act as a parent to all children – most important as homesickness is real!
• Direct duties – each parent will be given a duty group to supervise. (Dishes, dining room, lunch and veges, dormitories, outdoor areas)
• Help out in kitchen – the cook is there to supervise the food preparation and delivery – lots of help needed with dishing up etc.

• Teachers – responsible for overall programme, safety of students, RAMS,
• Cook: Directs the kitchen
• Medical person: Takes care of any medication children bring, administers medical attention as required
• Camp mother: Children take small concerns to you; looks after specific needs; ensures roster of adults to sleep in the dormitories.
• Safety Officer : Checks RAMS for each trip; Fire drills

• Grounds duty person: supervising duty group who hose and clean out shower block and toilet area; make sure no rubbish left around outside;
• Dishes person: Supervises duty team on dishes; teatowels need to be washed out daily and hung either in drying room or outside line.
• Dining room; supervises setting up of dining room; clearing of tables and stacking of dishes in the dining area; tables are wiped and floor swept
• Dormitories: Supervises group on vacuuming dormitories and Hall; checks tidiness of bunks; dusting of ledges!
• Veges and lunches: Supervises group on filled roll making; liaises with cook to organise vege preparation

• Get dressed and up the pipeline/confidence course – dining room group return to set up breakfast. Tidy own bed and belongings.
• Breakfast
• Duties
• Day’s adventure preparation
• Sometimes back to camp for lunch
• Back to camp late afternoon
• Games, showers, dinner, activities and bed

• Monday:
• Bus leaves school about 9.45ish; first break at lookout on Whareratas; lunch on riverbank at
Wairoa; arrive camp around 1.30pm. Unpack; find beds; afternoon tea; explore environment and try out confidence course; short trek to Green Lake
(Fairy Springs) and Kaitawa Lake; showers, dinner, fire drills, activities and bed.

• Usual daily routines
• Aniwaniwa tracks
• Lake Waikareiti
• Papakorito Falls

• The Redoubt area
• Panekiri to first trig
• Gravesite
• Lake Kiri-o-pukae
• Rata tree on Tawa track

• Down pipeline to Tuai power station – may be able to have a look through???
• Morning tea by Lake Whakamarino – fish watching
• Caving at Onepoto Caves
• Celebration dinner and concert

• Big clean up after duties
• Children go to Lake Kaitawa to do sketching or scavenger hunt; also orienteering a possibility
• Leave in time to be back at school before 3 p.m.

• http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/p arks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/eastcoast-hawkes-bay/lake-waikaremoanawalks.pdf
• Contains all the information you would ever need to know about the area.