Tokoroa High School Service Academy takes on a new experience
Tokoroa secondary school students took on a 12-day challenge that helped develop their confidence and saw them make friends from around New Zealand.
Photo: Tamara Thorn
Working together, making friends and taking on challenges to better themselves, Tokoroa High School Service Academy students learned a lot at camp.
Thirteen students from Tokoroa High School took the two-hour trip to Waiouru Military Camp this month, where they met with students from other schools around New Zealand.
During the 12-day camp they faced both mental and physical challenges.
“For the first few days we just stuck to each other and our own school, and then we got to know each other and we worked out each other’s weaknesses and we worked together,” said year 11 student Isha Kaur.
Groups that failed to meet a deadline were set to do push-ups, planking or running, “The amount of time that we were late, that was how long we had to do our punishment for,” said Kaur.
“Push-ups, push-ups, push-ups.”
School Service Academy travelled to Waiouru
Military camp for a 12 day camp.
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Year 13 student Taine Karepe said it was mentally and physically challenging.
“The experience was good, and we made quite a lot of good friends.”
Karepe and Kaur said discipline, teamwork and cooperating with people they didn’t know, and getting to trust them, was the main aim of the camp.
The biggest achievement for year 12 student Shaneya Ihaka was being awarded most improved in the academy.
The students said time management, changing old habits, becoming more confident and adding to leadership skills were big achievements.
Karepe said he learnt a lot. “It made me quite disciplined. Now I show respect to my parents more.”
Karepe, Ihaka and Kaur said they would do it all again for the sake of the friendships they made.
“It was sad to see them leave,”said Kaur.
