PCT challenge

Last Wednesday Beth, Lachie, Ally, and Tom went to the PCT (Physical Competency Challenge) at the Balclutha Rec Center. The PCT challenge is a fitness test the police do (within a certain time limit) to see if they are fit enough to become Police Officers.
Our team was up first out of 19 teams and completed the test in 3:21. This positioned us 5th in the overall competition which was a fantastic effort! Lawrence was the fastest team and came 1st in the competition. Considering we were first up, and we had no idea how to do it, we are proud of our effort! We all had a fun day because at the end, we all went to Ally's grandparents shop to get an ice cream! Thanks to Warren for transporting us to the Rec Center, and shouting us the ice creams.

Clued up kids

Wednesday the 29th of July the year 6 students went to the Balclutha Recreation Centre for Clued up Kids. This was a programme that taught us all about safety and how we can keep safe in a range of different situations. We had a great time moving around the different stations listed below.

• Relax kids - taught us some special relaxation techniques. 
• Bike safety - all about following signs and road rules. 
• Water safety - here we put on life jackets on and went on the rescue boat. 
• First Aid - role played people being hurt fixing them. 
• Gun safety - shown different guns and the 7 golden rules with gun safety. 
• Dog safety - they taught us a rhyme, "if there's a dog on its on leave it alone."
• Fire safety - we had to go in a pitch black tunnel following the stop, drop and crawl procedure get out quickly.  
• Motor Bike safety - learning you have to be 16 years old to ride a full sized motorbike.
• Earthquake safety - we went into a trailer and had to follow the procedure of drop stop and hold.

As a group our favourite station we visited was Fire safety, going through the pitch black tunnel was a lot of fun. Overall it was a great day, we learnt a lot about safety in a range of situations. We have to say we are definitely more clued up!