Camp Bentzon

What a great week Room 1 and Room 6 had at Camp Bentzon. After an enjoyable overseas voyage we sighted Kawau and were soon being warmly welcomed by Peter and Erin the Camp Managers. We settled ourselves in before setting off on a walk to explore the smelter house in Schoolhouse Cove. Tramping up hills and down we got to our destination ably led by Mr McCracken. After sifting through the rocks on the beach many of us discovered some copper treasure. Back at the camp the fishing rods came out and the wharf was full of swimmers and fisherman.
The food during the week was fantastic- healthy nourishing and tasty.
Over the next few days we sailed, kayaked, built bivouacs, cooked damper, went orienteering and built rafts. We spent many hours fishing with little reward. We walked to the copper mine and went through Mansion House. We tested the burma trail, went spotlighting and carried out the confidence course and fitness trail. On the last night we presented a group item outside under the trees with wekas running around our feet hunting for food.
Thanks to all the parents that helped out in many ways. Thanks to Peter and Erin for their friendly assistance with activities and providing an audience for our concert. Congratulations to all the students who were often challenged to try activities that were out of their comfort zone. We look forward to going back to Camp Bentzon again in the future.

Camp Bentzon

Hey Its Rainbow!!!!

Tomarata School Had been working hard for the Hey Its Rainbow production we had lots of practice and everything went well.There was a great amount of people watching and it was great.When we finished the productions we were all very tired.






By Leah

Hey! I'm Rainbow

Thank Steffania

Thanks to Steffania our new fruit trees have all been planted. We now have a selection of trees that will hopefully provide us with a variety of fruit to eat in the future. They include some apple, nectarine, plum and pear trees.

Interactive Story

This week in the mail Briar and Aimee received a parcel each of great looking books for having their stories accepted in the Library Week interactive story competition. They were very excited to get more books to add to their libraries at home. Well done!!

Production practise

All the students in tomarata school are practising hard for the production called "Hey its rainbow".
The pirates and the mermainds are going good and the leads have practised there lines.We have started to practise with the whole school and its going well.
By Leah