For the first time ever at TCS, the Year 5's had the "Amazing Race" experience. Dale and Julie from Quest for Fun were the organisers for the day. They set a very challenging but fun course where we had to complete a number of challenges around the school and then end up at Evans Road Beach.
And then we had more fun! Since it was such a beautiful day we were able to enjoy a range of beach games like touch, non stop cricket, long ball, frizbee throwing, making sand castles and just chilling out on the lovely beach. The amazing race turned into a quite amazing day! Special thanks to our wonderful parent helpers: Julie Glasgow, Jack Sirimuangmool, Stacey Turner and Carla Halidone.
We will publish the winning teams shortly and also some comments from the pupils.
Amazing Race Quotes
“ I loved the way the teams had to find the object under the bridge. This was on the way to the beach. You had to work out a spot the difference. To end at the beach for games was awesome”. By Sage
“ We had to run around the school and look for clues. One of them was: We had to calculate how many lollies were in a jar? Also what was the longest word in the Tahatai mural? We had to find the person with the boppet who had a mini control. We had to think really hard in some of the challenges”. By Emma
“I loved building the lego. This was one of the challenges. The beach challenge where we had bury someone up to their neck was a lot of fun. It was a fantastic day. Let’s hope we do it again”. By Nicholas
“ I really enjoyed burying myself in the sand and finding the clues around the school. A really hard one was the basketball challenge. The beach games after the challenges were fantastic”. By Sharon
“ The best part was working in a team with your friends. The hardest challenge was trying to figure out the house on Webb Place and what they had in their garden?” By Alex
“ My favourite activity was where you had to take a photo of a tree with your team in it. Also finding the poster and counting how many insects there were. It was an excellent day. I hope we do it again”. By Faiza
“ It was really cool. I loved counting the lollies. It was exciting running around the school looking for clues. We got stamps in our passport”. By Pheonix
“ It was cool when we ran around the school trying to find the clues. One of the challenges was counting how many times the word laugh was in the school playground. Our group counted 5”. By Jesse
“ I really enjoyed doing the challenges. They were both fun and quite tricky at the same time. Our group didn’t win but we all had a fun time. I hope we do it again next year. Finishing at the beach was exciting and relaxing”. By Sheylea
“ I loved the challenges. For one of the challenges we had to find out when the new build was opened. Another challenge was to find the NZ map in the hall and name some of the Kiwi icons”. By Gaeleigh
“ It was alot of fun running the school as normally we arn’t allowed to run around. Getting buried in the sand at the beach was so cool. I loved playing the beach games like cricket and long ball. My rating is a 10 out of 10". By Jenna
“ The boppet challenge was awesome. You had to twist it, pull it and shout it. The word challenge where you had to find how many words in Tahatai School was great- we found 6 ( cat, at, hat, sat, cool, lost)” By Kiani
“ I enjoyed the challenge when you had to figure out the boppet. You had to push it, twist it and pull it. It was cool burying our team mate in the sand”. By Zenith
“ Mr McCracken was hiding one of the posters that we had to find. That was a real laugh. Building the lego on the court was a cool challenge. I hope we do it again” By Jaydon
“ The race was fantastic. Our group found the challenges quite hard. It was funny when Mr McCracken hit the poster that we had to find. The beach was awesome”. By Manning
“ I really liked counting the lollies. This challenge were quite hard as there were so many. There were 96 lollies in the jar. I loved having lunch and playing on the beach. This was a great way to finish an awesome day”. By Sophie
“ I loved the big poster challenge. We also had to go out on the local streets to find clues. The spot the difference task was great- my team worked it out! It was a lizards tail.” By Rorey
“ I really loved the challenge when you had to sketch the bricks and then take a photo of our group in a tree. That was cool! I enjoyed the beach games afterwards particularly the game of cricket. It was a brilliant day and I hope we do it again”. By Ashley
“ We had to run around the whole school looking for clues. We had to write down our answers in our group passport. Then we walked to the beach and completed some activities on the way. At the beach it was really hot but we had alot of fun”.By Talia
“ I really enjoyed the amazing race. The best challenge was when we had to play on the mini boppert. I enjoyed burying Jenna in the sand. I enjoyed working as a team to solve the challenges”. By Sukmanpreet
“ The challenges were pretty hard. The bridge challenge which was spot the difference was really hard. Playing touch rugby on the beach was awesome”. By Tuinga
“ It was a beautiful sunny day at the beach. My favourite part was playing touch on the beach. The challenges were quite hard but we all enjoyed doing them”. By Luke
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