Middle Leader News
Good Afternoon Parents and Carers,
What a privilege it was to go and spend 3 days with the Year 6 students at Camp at Currimundi this week! As I lay my weary body on the couch yesterday, I thought about how camps like these remind me of why I love belonging to such an amazing community like SSPS.
- The resilience of our kids
There was very little downtime the entire camp. Most days the kids would have walked over 20 000 steps, let alone the energy expended during the activities themselves. They were absolutely shattered, yet we barely heard a child complain! When they were tired, we saw them leaning on each other, supporting their peers to get through it. Walking home from activities with wet board shorts was a new experience for some of our youngsters, who quickly learnt of the ‘Currimundi Shuffle’ – a style of walking with your legs as far apart as they can go to avoid the dreaded leg chafe. Again, very few complained, as chafe cream was shared around for those who forgot it!
- The dedication of our staff
What a bunch of incredible educators!
Henry Logan’s (AKA ranger Logan) first time and you’d have thought he was a seasoned camper – always up for a chat with the kids, more compeititve than most of the students, the king of the plate scraping and ready to help out where there was a need.
Bee King – definitely not her first camp! Back to back body boarding for 3 days with 3 groups. Picking up the kids towels so they don’t get wet in the storm at 2.45am. Leading a flash mob during our free time. There really is no end to her talents!
Annie Ward (AKA medication queen) ran a beautiful night liturgy on the beach for the students, where we all shared what we were grateful for. She kept spirits high each day and was always looking out for each and every student. She got amongst it in every way.
Maddy Robinson was new to our team, daughter of the famous Mrs Robinson in the office! What a breath of fresh air she was. So great at kayaking she went three times. We appreciated her energy and enthusiasm and giving up her time to help us out!
Tash Klemm came along to camp too and was such an awesome help! She was responsible for choosing the best behaved table to eat first – so she was very well liked by our students. We appreciated her giving up her own work commitments to come and enjoy some sunshine and torrential rain!
- The joy within a united team
I think what stood out the most amongst the whole experience was the joy we all shared. Whether you were a teacher, parent or student, we all shared in this joy together and experienced it as a team. There were so many special times shared and memories made that will last a lifetime. Thank goodness we were able to experience camp again this year!
Enjoy the photos!
Warm Regards
Nicki Prentice
Middle Leader