X Challenge

Last Thursday, some of the Year 6 students went up to Pompallier College for their orientation day. It turned out that there was a lot of us left at school with Mrs Gunson, Mrs Smith and Mrs Hepi. Now the challenge for the teachers was how to keep lots of people engaged and doing something worthwhile, when they didn't have all of their own classes and lots of extra people from Room 17, 20 and 21. Well, this is what they (the teachers) came up with - The X Challenge.

The X-Challenge was made up of 12 fun and challenging games. Theses games required the participants to work as a team, to keep going even when it would have been easier to give up and some of them needed a little bit of courage. The Year 6 students (obviously the ones that didn't go to Pompallier) had to lead each challenge game. First, they had to teach the Year 5's the game, then get them to play it and give them a fair score. The X- Challenge took two whole periods and even then we didn't get to play all the games.

We had a really great time. The teachers said the Year 6's were excellent leaders and could easily run one of the school Whanau Days. The Year 5's played hard and fair. They worked well in their teams and encouraged each other to do their best.