Camp Kaitawa

Purposes of Camp

• Meeting challenges – group and individual• Working in different groups• For some, being away from the home

comforts• Trying new foods• Personal fitness challenges• Co-operating with other adults• Accepting rules

Curriculum Links• Water cycle and hydroelectricity principles.• Landforms and explanations – formation of the lake

and legend of the lake.• Living World: bush environment – trees, ferns, fungi,

birds, insects, interdependence.• Art – sketching, charcoal drawings.• Writing – keeping a diary, shared stories• Reading: maps, signs, instructions, rules, worksheets• PE and Health: • Social Science: History of the area; Te Kooti; Redoubt

Role of all parent helpers

• Act as a parent to all children – most important as homesickness is real!

• Direct duties – each parent will be given a duty group to supervise. (Dishes, dining room, lunch and veges, dormitories, outdoor areas)

• Help out in kitchen – the cook is there to supervise the food preparation and delivery – lots of help needed with dishing up etc.

Specific adult roles at camp• Teachers – responsible for overall programme, safety

of students, RAMS,• Cook: Directs the kitchen• Medical person: Takes care of any medication

children bring, administers medical attention as required

• Camp mother: Children take small concerns to you; looks after specific needs; ensures roster of adults to sleep in the dormitories.

• Safety Officer : Checks RAMS for each trip; Fire drills

Adult roles continued• Grounds duty person: supervising duty group who hose and

clean out shower block and toilet area; make sure no rubbish left around outside;

• Dishes person: Supervises duty team on dishes; teatowels need to be washed out daily and hung either in drying room or outside line.

• Dining room; supervises setting up of dining room; clearing of tables and stacking of dishes in the dining area; tables are wiped and floor swept

• Dormitories: Supervises group on vacuuming dormitories and Hall; checks tidiness of bunks; dusting of ledges!

• Veges and lunches: Supervises group on filled roll making; liaises with cook to organise vege preparation

Layout of Camp

Daily routines

• Get dressed and up the pipeline/confidence course – dining room group return to set up breakfast. Tidy own bed and belongings.

• Breakfast• Duties• Day’s adventure preparation• Sometimes back to camp for lunch• Back to camp late afternoon• Games, showers, dinner, activities and bed

Programme - flexible

• Monday: • Bus leaves school about 9.45ish; first break at

lookout on Whareratas; lunch on riverbank at Wairoa; arrive camp around 1.30pm. Unpack; find beds; afternoon tea; explore environment and try out confidence course; short trek to Green Lake (Fairy Springs) and Kaitawa Lake; showers, dinner, fire drills, activities and bed.

Tuesday

• Usual daily routines• Aniwaniwa tracks• Lake Waikareiti• Papakorito Falls

Wednesday

• The Redoubt area• Panekiri to first trig

• Gravesite• Lake Kiri-o-pukae• Rata tree on Tawa track

Thursday

• Down pipeline to Tuai power station – may be able to have a look through???

• Morning tea by Lake Whakamarino – fish watching

• Caving at Onepoto Caves• Celebration dinner and concert

Friday

• Big clean up after duties• Children go to Lake Kaitawa to do sketching or

scavenger hunt; also orienteering a possibility• Leave in time to be back at school before 3

p.m.

References

• http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/east-coast-hawkes-bay/lake-waikaremoana-walks.pdf

• Contains all the information you would ever need to know about the area.