Beach Week 2020 - Sailing at Worser Bay Boating Club

The finale for Beach Week 2020 was sailing with Worser Bay Boating Club. Ngā mihi nui to Polly, Harvey and Hugo for showing us the ropes! We revisited our learning from the Kōkōkaha program we did in class (see Float My Boat, Sail Power, History of Sailing & Sail Away). Tāwhirimātea had been active this week, but was kind to us for two and a half of the planned four days. Many of us were sailing for the first time and with just a little wind we were able to get a feel for the Opti dinghys.

 

During Kōkōkaha, we learnt about boat stability and keels/centreboards by experimenting in class. Sailing for real, we learnt that the centreboard is also used to lever the boat upright after capsizing. 
 

 

Polly and Harvey kept us right in the IRBs. Conditions were such that we could choose whether to capsize or not. The water wasn't too icy so some of us got in quite a lot of practice! 

 

I pai tēnā wiki, ka rawe koutou! 

Let the Beach Week(s) Begin...

Today our Beach Week(s) begun. We did lots of different activities on the beach and the Year 5 students went sailing. What a wonderful start to our Education Outside of the Classroom. 

To find out what is happening, here is a link to our Beach Timetable 

Here is the link to info about our Marafun (Duathlon) We are raising money for Kidscan. 

Eleanor:

I loved swimming because I have not done it for so long in the sea. I also loved spending time with my friends and teachers. I loved every moment of the time we were at the beach.

Jan:

I loved building the village today. It started off as a small cluster of houses and soon inflated to massive size. It was fun watching it grow, and eventually get wasted by the sea.

Molly:

I used a growth mind set in swimming because I thought I wouldn't have fun but I gave it a go and had so much fun (it was my favourite part).
I used manaakitanga today at the beach with my friends when we made the sand castles.
My favourite part was swimming. I also liked the game, capture the flag .

Mitchell:

At the beach I loved sailing and playing in the water.

Pyrenees:

I loved swimming in the water, even though I thought that it was too cold to go in. But it wasn’t, it was great.

Hunter R:

I loved swimming because the water was really cold and when we did sailing I got to go on the rescue boat

Learning to sail optimists

We've had great support from Worser Bay Boating Club to enable all our students to have a try at sailing optimists. Emma and her team - Elliot, Zoe, Polly and Penny - talked to the students about the basics of sailing and the wind direction and then everyone had a turn. We were able to sail on Monday and Friday mornings and all day on Thursday.

The coaches were really nice and it was a great experience - Hugo M
We got to play sponge tag when you thrown the sponge into the tag and you're in , it was fun- Pippa
Sailing can be fun or it can be a good story. Like on some days it can be scary and then it's a good story - Bethen