Our Year 5 students recently went on camp near Berry. 

Year 5 camp food review 

Day 1: Wednesday 26 February 

Lunch: Wraps - 4.9 stars. Very yum, good chicken and toppings.  

Dinner: Pasta Bolognese - 4.8 stars. The side of garlic bread was a bonus. 

Dessert: Custard with fruits - 3.9 stars. 

Day 2: Thursday 27 February 

Breakfast: Cereal with toast - 5 stars. My favourite breakfast. Also on offer was an English breakfast, including scrambled eggs, bacon, baked beans, grilled tomato, and mushrooms. 

Lunch: Burgers - 4.8 stars. Yum

Dinner: Butter chicken and naan - 4 stars. Good chicken.

Dessert: Ice cream - 5 stars. I wish we could have had seconds

Day 3: Friday 28 February

Breakfast: Pancakes and cereal - 4 stars

Lunch: sandwiches - 3 stars

Cookout snack: Damper cooked on the fire with golden syrup - 10 stars

Service - 2 stars

After dinner my friend asked for one more ice cream and Zac the instructor said yes but when she opened the ice cream there was rice and vegetables in it, it was pretty hilarious. After we ate, one group always had cleaning duty. It was not fun and so boring but if you had cleaning duty at dinner you could have the extra stuff unless you don’t want it.

By Inaara M

I enjoyed Year 5 camp, it was so fun! I learned that being in a group with none of your friends isn’t the end of the world, and instead of worrying about people in your group or cabin, you should just enjoy the time at camp while it lasts. This year the theme was: communication and collaboration. My favorite activity was biscuits, not the food biscuits, big round inflatables that you go on with a team of 4 people. The dark maze was the scariest because it’s pitch black inside and it’s a very tight space.

Archery tag was the second best. You get a bow and 3 arrows, not pointy arrows, but squishy tipped arrows.

I also learned, don’t worry about the food, but also if you start to feel homesick, people in your cabin will support you.

By Vanessa.B

I loved camp in Year 5 as we had lots and lots of fun. We did biscuits where we went out into a river. We needed shoes because there were trees at the bottom of the river. We had fun when we went out in pairs and we did challenges that were really fun but not really easy and even though we all fell in the river we all had fun and we laughed. It was super fun. We also got to jump off the biscuits and into the river. I loved it.

We had a cookout and we all cooked something together and we got golden syrup in them and it was really good and I loved the cookout even though it wasn't easy to make it. We had to be careful with the fire. They gave us really good food and they also gave us some dessert.

We also went through a dark maze. We worked together and made it. We learned how to communicate, we learned how to work together and collaborate. It was a lot of fun and we faced lots of challenges.

By Parker B

Year 5 camp was wonderful. Actually, better than wonderful. We learned to cooperate and collaborate. The first activity that my group had was rock climbing. It was very fun, especially the abseiling bit. You might want to be a bit careful while abseiling. We learned how to cooperate with each other.

After that, we had dinner—pasta! For dessert, we had custard and fruit. My group was on cleanup duty that meal, so we got extra dessert. Next, we had games for our night activity. When it was lights out, we chatted a little. I couldn’t sleep and didn't fall asleep until after midnight. We had English breakfast the next morning.

Then, we had archery - my favourite. We got to shoot at windows, blocks and each other! We also had barriers for cover. We got to shoot gangster style, (bit like a crossbow) but shooting the normal way is better. Be sure to actually have a tactic that everyone agrees on before you start shooting blindly at the other team turbocharge. Dark maze was also fun. You get to crawl through oblivion! I think I may have done a loop at some point. We went in in pairs and we worked together to navigate through.

It was burger day that day which was the best lunch at camp. Next, we went biscuiting. We got to jump into the lake at the end. We learned how to communicate with each other so the biscuit would actually move.

That night, we had butter chicken with rice for dinner! Even better, dessert was… wait for it… ice cream! We played more games that night. Next morning, WE HAD PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST!!! Then, we did a cookout (making damper). My damper was a bit burnt, but it was still fun. We learned how to start a fire to make damper. I loved camp. We also got to watch Paw Patrol in the common room (hey, don’t judge. It was the only good thing on! Well, that and Peppa Pig).

We learned about stepping out of our comfort zone. It was very fun. 

By Chen-An L