Starting to climb

So we have now had our first couple of rock climbing trips of the year. One year 13 day at Wharepapa and another day at Extreme Edge in Hamilton for the Mr Oliver's year 12's.

On both trips everyone seemed to go hard, pushing their limits with a couple of falls and plenty of panting (especially from AJ).

James and Antz getting their Belay on

Brady and Liam checking out the view

This isn't how we did it at Outward Bound

Looks like a nice long climb?

Mckee hanging out on one of his first lead climbs

Karn's to dynamic for the camera

Tensing between climbs aye AJ

Konar making a move

Brooke on a very tricky "17"

Young Farrelly on his second lead, 

I don't think he made it much further than this

Helping a brother out

Am I very far off the ground?

Sean on a climb more appropriate  climb for his stature

Donna-Marie topping out

Pia showing us how it's done in Austria

Year 11's and Sean

Due to no camera on the Year 11 Taupo field trip i haven't been able to put a video together to show off the shenanigans.

The Trip was full of eating spicy chilli's, ton's of people pushing themselves outside there comfort zone and some wet tents in the morning.

Highlights were watching the "tough boys" wimp out on the kayaking Seal Launch while others went over and over again. Watching people's legs shake (and sometimes tears) on the high ropes course. And people downing chilli's for their use of profanity.

We will be sure to have the camera up and running for the next year 11 trip.

I do have a nice edit from Sean Curtis of his missions over the summer.

2OED Kayak Missions

2 different weeks on the Mohaka, 2 different weather forecasts, and 2 different trips.

The first week was Mr Leong's class. We had sunshine all three days and had a couple of fantastic days on the mohaka, as well as a fair few hours of solid ball sport playing.
William and Luke kept us entertained with their chilli eating.
The deal was that if you swore at any stage you had to eat half of a very spicy chilli for 20 seconds.

The second trip saw not so much sunshine but a whole heap of rain. This meant we had to fast track it after our first 2 days to the Aniwhenua where we got to see sunshine and surf and whoopee all day. AJ and Karn must've eaten half a pack of chilli's between them.

Here are the vid's from each trip

Out and About

So it there's clearly been an influx of posts on the blog over the last month... And I love it! The Outdoor Ed trips are coming thick and fast and keeping us busy and out of the classroom.

Here's a video of some of the troops out and about in there spare time. Good to see our students getting stuck into the outdoors.

3OED Kayaking Mission

Five days kayaking, 13 boys, lots of food, and heavy rain warnings on the news. These were the ingredients for an epic week.

1 day rescue clinic, 1 day at the Mohaka, and 3 days at the Aniwhenua. This was the end result.

Year 10 Mountain Biking

Due to the new gym being built, we had to pull an old switcheroo with rock climbing and mountain biking.

We set off on two separate days for a fun filled day of biking on the Te Aroha Mountain bike track. With a range of abilities, fitness levels, and bike quality this meant for quite an eventful couple of days. We endured walking up hills, fast down hills and quite a number of crashes (potentially close to 20 over the course of the 2 days).

Check out the pictures and video below, they say it all

All prepped up

McBeth before the big bail

Our esteemed leader

Aaron ready to launch

Welcome back to 2012

Welcome back to another jam packed year of outdoor adventures.

Our first term is full of ABL, Kayaking, and Mountain biking.

We've got an exciting year ahead with the gym being built, this will contain a nice big storage room for us out the back, an updated climbing wall, and hopefully a classroom.

We've also got a couple a new Mountain craft course for the year 13's and some trips tweaked for the better.

Below is our trip calendar for the year

Mr Leong's class is Class A

Mr Oliver's class is Class B

Year 10 Class A Class B	Year 11 Class A Class B	Year 12 Class A Class B	Year 13
Rock climbing Class A; Mon; 12 March Class B; Tues; 13 March	First Aid Class A; Thurs-Fri. 9-10 Feb Class B; Mon-Tues 13-14 Feb	Whitewater Kayaking Class A; Wed- Fri 28-30 March Class B; Tues-Thurs 3-5 April	Independent White water Kayaking Mon-Fri 19-23 March
Tramping A; Tues 19 June B; Mon 25 June	Taupo; Kayak n Ropes Both classes Thurs-Fri. 26-27 April. Mountain Biking A; Wed 6 June B; Fri 8 June	Rock n Abseil A; Mon 14 May Fri 18 May Fri 25 May B; Wed 16 May Tues 22 May Mon 28 May Caving A; Tues 17 July B; Wed 18 July	Advanced Rock Climbing Tues 8 May Wed 30 May Mon 11 June Thurs 14 June Thurs 21 June Tues 26 June Reserve day Sun 30 June
Mountain Biking A; Wed 12 September B; Fri. 14 Sept	Tramping A; Wed- Fri 5-7 September B; Mon-Wed 17-19 September	Mountain Biking A; Mon-Tues 30-31 July B; Thurs-Fri 2-3 August Risk Management AS; 2.8 Written assessment	Mountain Craft Sun –Tues 12-14 Aug Independent Mountain Biking Sun-Tues 23-25 September Assistant Leadership opportunities; Yr11 Tramping Yr 10 kayaking
Kayaking A; Mon 19 November B; Wed 21 November Orienteering During learning programme.(1 day)	Cycle Tour-Both classes Fri- SAT 26-27 October	Cycle Tour- Both classes Tues-Fri 16-19 October