Four winds sailing trip

Four Winds sailing trip.

Last Thursday a group of students from each class in the High Flyers team were selected to attend the Four Winds sailing trip at the NZ Maritime museum. Here is a short clip of our amazing trip and Apoua also shares his writing about it.

JOURNEY TO MARITIME

MUSEUM!

By Apoua

Have you ever been on a school trip where you get to learn and experience some amazing places and facts you have never ever known in you whole entire life? I have and let me tell you about a time when about 10-12 kids from each magnificent classroom in the High Flyers got chosen to go to Maritime Museum located in Auckland City near the sky tower. It was such an amazing day!

On a dazzling light bright sunny day some people got chosen to be part of the Maritime Museum trip. First of all we all got organised at school and then we were packed onto a humongous bus and drove a long way to our destination. We had fun along the way and we saw some awesome new buildings. When we arrived there we all gathered up in front of the museum and a kind generous lady named Emma introduced us to the museum.

When we entered the museum we saw some fascinating objects as we made our way into a small room and were organised into 2 groups. Group 1 was the first to go sailing while group 2 stayed with Emma and learnt how life in the olden days took place. I was in group 1 and when we went out of the room we quickly put a life jacket on to protect us just in case of an emergency. When we went onto the ship we could feel the pressure and the wobbling of the ship going down and up.

Later on the ship stopped and we then had to pull the rope to make the sails go up. After about 5 minutes there was no wind so they decided to use the motor. It soon became time to make our way back to the museum and we quickly and sensibly got off the ship to go back to Emma for our next activity. We went into our gathering place and waited for Emma to arrive. I was so excited for the next activity! While we followed Emma we learnt about how things went on back in the days and how the used the community and the environment around them to go to their location.

A little while later we made our way towards the ships for the midday cannon. 3 2 1 Boom!!! When we heard that explosion it felt like an insane firework exploded. After that we were instructed in our separate groups and we were given a challenge, and that challenge was to find the following objects on the paper. It was so hard to find the objects but we all managed to find it. The hardest one to find was a boat because the boat looked exactly like the other boats place around Maritime museum.

Once we had finished finding the objects we quickly made our way back to the room and packed to go back onto the bus. Finally we all made it on the bus and we all felt sleepy along the way back to Rowandale Primary school. When we entered the front gate we sat near the flagpole and waited until the bell rang for us to go home.That day I knew would be a memorable moment and I hope someday I will have that amazing journey to MARITIME MUSEUM again.