On the 15/9 was the day we had our camp where we were going to Phillip island.First we headed to the back off the school where we put our stuff down and waited with our friends for the bus’s to arrive and for us to put our stuff on it.When they arrived we put our luggage on and headed off,we watched as the parents waved goodbye.

he bus drive was long but we made time fly by with our own entertainment.When we stopped we had some lunch then got back on the bus.When we got there our legs were aching.We got put into our cabins except me and a few others who slept in tents put our stuff down and had our lunch.

Our first activity was beach walk where we walked along the beach find different creatures on the sand and on the rocks and we walked for a long time before we headed back.Since we got to the camp at lunch we only had one activity that day.

The next day we had marine discovery where we first discussed rips and what they are and how to spot them.Next we headed down to the beach to do a activity which was to rescue a person who was stranded but we had a little fun by messing around in the water when trying to get the person out.We had a lot of fun even though it was very cold in the water.The next activity was  surfing which was one of my favorites.We first had to change into some wet suits and then a fluro green shirt then we got our boards and headed down to the beach to start surfing.It was really fun but it was really cold down at the beach at that time.We surfed many waves and got smashed by them and it was really fun.

The next day we had a activity where we would use gps trackers to find the questions and then answer them but nobody wanted to have a competition so we just did to normally and once everyone finished we started doing hut building since we had a little spare time and in the end the boys won by a  lot but the teachers thought the girls won.

Our last activity was bike riding which was fun but some parts where challenging because we had to ride up tall hills and i’m not very good at doing that.It was still fun riding around the street.We rode for a couple of Km then we headed back to start geting ready for our last lunch at camp which was going to be hamburgers which i like alot.

My favorite thing at camp was the Gaga Pit where you would play gaga ball which is a small game where you hit a ball at someone trying to hit their feet and if the ball hits you on the feet or below the nee your out,everyone played it many times and had lots of fun.

The food at the place was nice and tasty,chicken, we had bolognaise with some galic bread, and we had hamgburgers on the last day for lunch which were nice and tasty with some vegtables.

At the camp was a really great experience and i had a fantastic time playing games, going surfing, playng gaga ball and lots of others.The places we went were fun and exiting and Phillip island was fantastic.In the end i actully had fun when sleeping in a tent.This wasnt the best camp out of them all but it was still really fun and fun becasue we got to do new things that we didnt do on the other camps.

Today we went to the royal botanic gardens with our small buddies for the whole day and had a lot of fun playing a couple of games and walking around the park listening and looking around the place. We all enjoyed it a lot and we learnt some things too.

We first got our booklets for us to fill out then we hopped on the bus in the morning with our buddies and headed to the royal botanic gardens for the day.We first hopped off and lined up then headed in to our first destination in the park.We first headed to the lake where we sat by the bank and had a look at the animals that were swimming in the water and we saw some ducks, swans, and some Eels which were really cool.We had to fill out our booklet and draw what these animals looked like then we went to our next destination.

Then we went and ate recess by our self.We headed to our next place which was the Herb garden and it was nice and peaceful with lots of herbs and plants that smelt nice but others smelt terrible.We stayed there for a while and did the same thing in our booklets as we did with the lake. Then we headed to lunch with everyone and after we ate and and a nice chat we played a giant game of duck, duck ,goose then we headed back to the bus while singing the rat song then we went back to school.

For term 3 we did s.e.p.e.p as our sport which was a fun experience for me and stands for soccer education physical education program and it taught me a lot about how to be organised and how to work as a team when playing a sport.Our team was the yellow pixels which ended up second on the ladder.In our team we had Ruby,Erica,Liam, Leyla,Alyssa.

I think our team worked very well as a team, even if we were the best and didn’t win every match we still worked as a team and stayed happy even if the other team was 10 times better.This program helped me also to be a better team mate and a better player at soccer.It helped me be more organised.

For term 3 our topic was economic and when we started i knew a little about economics but only the basic things about it.We first started with some lessons on the basic things but moved on to the more challenging things.We had a incursion on economics with a women from the commonwealth bank came in to talk to us about how we can save and we came up with some ideas on how to do that.At first we talked about things that we might want to save up for and came up with some ways we can earn the money for those things like doing some chores or doing something for our neighbors, i came up with mowing the lawn every now and then to save up for a new ipad.Then we had a little fun and came up with a fun little company with a time, location ,what we would do, and how we would do it and we got into groups and discussed.We also Incorporated class masters and i learnt a bit more from the prepared speeches and a bit from the debates.This is what i learnt from economics which was the topic for term 3.

Today we went down to the multi purpose room to listen to Adrian Threlfall who came to talk about his books which are “Jungle warrior” and “Reg Saunders” and he talked about how he became a writer and what its like trying write a book and get it published which luckily for him wasn’t as hard as it can be which he said that he had to become used to rejection from publishing companies.

He also told us about his life at our school and how some of his family members went to the school and what some of his teachers were like during that time.He also talked about how he got his inspiration to write about Reg and told a bit about him and the book that he wrote about him.Adrian talked also about how he wrote his books and who helped him,more specifically he talked about Hugh Dolan who was the illustrator for his book “Reg Saunders” and is a good friend of his.

Adrian also spoke about what he had to go through with Hugh to be able to make his book and he talked about what he thought about when writing the book and what he used to get the information he needed.He finished up by asking us to ask him some questions that we thought about that were about his life or writing career.We asked questions like “did your teachers make you want to write” and “what are authors are your inspirations”. We asked a few more questions then we packed up and headed back upstairs to class.

Today we had a incursion about what to do in a time of emergency when a person is not breathing and you need to do CPR or any other emergency things with a person called Neil.We talked about what injuries we or our family have had in our lifetime before we looked at a power point that had a slide that had an important message which was to remember some letters which were r, d, , s, b, a and couple others.

These stood for  things like danger,response, airway , breathing and send for help were what to do and check when a person is unconscious and not breathing.We also looked at how to help a person breath when they are unconscious and we had a volunteer come up so Neil could demonstrate what to do and how to do it.Then we did it in partner.

We had a further look into more of the power point and then we got to the slide with CPR on it and Neil got out some plastic dummy’s and got a volunteer to come up and practice what its like to do CPR.

At the end he summed the lesson up and gave us a certificate that we could write our name on and then we headed out to recess and the lesson was really fun and i learnt a lot from it.