High Wire by Kaleb

High Wire by Kaleb

Kaleb told this story to Alistair, who typed it.

WOW! That was the best thing I have ever done in school time! At the end I got a certificate from High Wire and gifts from them. High Wire is by Papakura. Every Thursday is when we go to High Wire. I’d like to tell you who came. Hyson, Corrina, Serena, Arnov, Dtroyt, Dhruv, Grace, Jarayius, Alyssa and I (Kaleb).          

  On the first day we went in a taxi van to High Wire. We told our names to Carly and Rachael. We first went into a movie theatre. We told them our favourite foods in the world. Then we went outside and we had to cross the road so that we can get to the rugby fields! We learnt how to tie knots, we did activities with Carly and Rachael and we enjoyed it. We did the “Two legged race”. We did an activity that was in an imaginary cave. We got a plank, a car wheel, a hula hoop and a piece of straight cardboard. The grass is supposed to be lava! If anybody falls off any pieces of equipment, they would have to carry the equipment back to the start until we got it right with teamwork! We went into a classroom where Carly and Rachael and we got little notebooks from them. We did drawings and did some writing in it too! We looked around the place. We did “Tug-of-war” with a rope. We took pictures of all of us sitting on the deck.

  On the second day we did fitness!!!! We got some rope and a normal and empty bin that we pretended was a bomb. We tied the rope around the bin and we had to pull it out of the cone so the bomb doesn’t explode! If the bin falls over then the bomb will explode. The equipment was a long stick the size of Ms Turner’s 1 metre ruler, cones and the bomb (bin). We wrote some more in our notebook and drew in our notebooks too!

 I got a special pen from Mr Thew because Mrs Griffin came with us to High Wire. She only saw standing out was Dhruv, Dtroyt, Hyson and me. We also got a special pen that says “Effort brings reward Manurewa Central School” on it.

   On the third day we did BMX riding. We had to cross the road again. We got on the BMX bikes and went on the grass to get to the BMX track. There were heaps of bumps and Alyssa and Grace got hurt! Grace hadn’t ridden a bike in a looooooooooong time!!!! We went down a big ramp. It was fun. There were big hills and little hills. At the end we had a race on the grass with the BMX bikes. Mr Grover took pictures of us riding the BMX bikes. I even have one on my certificate!