Aspirations?

Something to aspire and work for

Or maybe this?

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Promotional Video

Here's a promotional video I've thrown together to try and entice the intermediate kids to get excited about Outdoor Education.

Cheers to the Year 11's

Let me know what you think

Maungatautari

The year 10's recently had their quarterly trip into the outdoors. And they are showing very good promise.

The first group got to the top on a chilly day in record time. Although it was cold many of them were warmed up from the inside out due to their appalling language. The chilli's were a hit.
Some whinging was had but all in all they were very prepared and snappy walkers.

The second group were just as quick lapping up the walking/climbing and of course the chilli's. Some were having more chilli's than others. Once down the bottom we had a look in the southern enclosure and bumped into a guy herding a couple of Takahe ready to mate in the aviary.

Here's some pictures from the 2 trips

Herewini about to warm up with a chilli

Group 2 at the Rocky outcrop

Chef de Troy

I don't even know what to say

The pond

I can still see you Tino

Posers

Smiling now

Check out the 2 loners

No we weren't smoking in there

Group 1's group shot

Im pretty sure beef farted in here

Year 11 MTB Action

With a couple of options on where to go on our MTB trip, we decided to roll with the always inspiring Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua.

Here's a mash up of both year 11 classes ripping it up.

What goes up must come down

We're now getting stuck into our climbing with a couple of missions to Castle Rock at Wharepapa South and a cheeky trip to Harvest Rock in Otorohanga.

Mr Leong's Year 12's saw Taylor and James seemed to not stop climbing most of the day and the Sean's talked about how good they were at climbing just about as much as they were climbing. Regan and William were the motivators keeping everyone's spirits high even with the gloomy weather.

Here are some pics of them lapping it up.


Mr Oliver's Year 12's had a hot sunny day where they were out to try and impress Whangarei girls. Mixing it up between climbing and abseiling, the class worked hard all day. Troy was are head assessor on the abseil, and I think we even saw Drenai there (great to see).

A Farrelly sized climb

Is it a bird or a plane?

"I could climb that one"

Everybody's smiling

"Did you see that crazy Woman!!"

Easy does it

"I hope this holds"

How do my legs look in these pants?

I Wonder if Chenae's smiling?

Race?

Mountain Biking coming soon....

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.