St Patrick's Hunger Games Part 1!!!

Last week Friday Room 8 went to camp at Long Bay Marine Reserve. The activities we done were Archery,Kayaking and Snorkeling. In this Recount I will be talking about the Year 7's and the experience they had in their lesson of Archery. This is the Recount I wrote.

Have you ever done Archery before? This story is going to be based on a year 7 group of children from St Patrick’s School and the experience they had during their day of Archery at a lovely and marvelous place you might know as Long Bay.

Everybody in Room 8 excitedly got out of the bus, grabbed their bags and headed towards the entrance of their hall. We were all holding it in until our first activity was said. When we go into the hall we saw a group of girls standing near a white board that had the timetable for the day. We met our instructors for the day - Shavanna, Vicky, Leanne and Sarah they were very lovely names. After they went over the timetable and the rules (designed to keep us safe) they announced that the year 7’s were doing Archery with Shavanna and they year 8’s were doing Kayaking with Leanna and Vicky.

All the year 7’s gathered outside the hall on a bench. Shavana came and told us the instructions and rules about Archery. After we had done that we grabbed the Bow’s,Arrows and Target and headed far, far away from the camp site.

When we arrive at the clearing where archery is done, we set everything up and started by learning the position needed to stand and aim at the target.  Following these lessons we moved on to challenging others.

In groups of 2 and 3(2 groups of 3 and two groups of 2) I was with Vine and Natalia, Miriama and Melayka were partners, Giovanni, Kolio and Johnnie were in a group and Folau and Avishek were partners as well. Shavanna let each group pick out a name, these names were Mighty Lions, M&Ms, Arrows, Green Arrows. After all the picking and the choosing was about we got to shoot our first Arrow one by one. Shavanna blew up a balloon for points, and we started shooting to get points. Everybody had a go until it was time to go back for morning tea and get read for our next activity.

We all had fun in Archery some of us felt like we were ready to join the Hunger Games (Yeah Right). It was a great experience for all of us to do something that we have never done before we were pretty sure to do some other time.