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Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC)

Lucy Naylor —

Our students will participate in education outside the classroom next week as part of our Physical Education and Health Curriculum. EOTC offers students hands-on experiences that are not available inside the school. We hope that the week ahead gives them an exciting learning opportunity to practice being a risk-taker, resilient, collaborators and problem solvers...and have a lot of fun on the way.

The Years 0-2 team will be having a ‘fun day’ where they will participate in team-building challenges, ‘campfire’ singing, art activities in tents, making Smores for eating, team games and swimming.


The Year 3-4 students have an action-packed three days of EOTC activities. One day will be a localised walk around the local area, visiting the Cambria museum, a guest speaker teaching about local history. A second day at Lake Pupuke (with qualified instructors), having a go at stand up paddleboarding, canoeing and raft building. The third day is at Birkenhead Leisure Centre, where the students will be challenged on the rock wall and competing in a set of team-building challenges. Tired children guaranteed


The Years 5-6 will be staying at Camp Adair in the Hunua Ranges. They will have a go at a wide range of activities during their stay, including orienteering, vertical centipede, the leap of faith, trapeze, Super fox, Flying Kiwi, crate stack, and car cargo net, fire lighting and the confidence course, to name a few. This is their first experience of being away from home for many students. What great adventurers they will have, camp is a real highlight for all students and our parents! We look forward to sharing EOTC sound bites in the next news bulletin.

Thank you to all our EOTC parent helpers, your offers of help are very much appreciated.