Walkie Talkie Walkathon!

A blast of colour flashed though everyone's mind as Gulf Harbour Schools four hundred students and classes walked up to the start flag to do there first photo challenge. Everyone was bouncing on their feet like baby kangaroos ready to get the unique journey started.

It was a cold crisp morning on the wet grass when they found out the next photo challenge, building a human pyramid. Click with a beam of light went the camera when the teacher took the photo. One down twenty nine to go! Feet stomping the excitement buzzed of the classes as they went on there way to find the next photo challenge. Everyone was bright and colourful when they walked past each other in their different themes that they got to choose to walk in. There were spies, runners, sleepers, sick and hurt people, joggers, islanders, knights and princess's

Suddenly they felt sand in between their toes and the sound of crashing waves in their ears. The smell of the salty sea air filled their heads with a fantastic upcoming memory. Following the sanding tracks of large foot prints the wonderful different themed class's trotted along towards the muddy field. Mud sprayed up the back of everyone legs. My feet slowly took me up that enormous

giant of a hill. 

What an extraordinary event made and organise by Room Fourteen. The whole school raised more than $10 000, all that money will go towards the  loved school library and new books. It was a splendid day for everyone to enjoy. Hope we can have another awesome amazing walkathon next year. ( maybe not as awesome as ours)

Brooke and Eadie

What an enormous event! The Walkie Talkie Walkathon held by Room 14 has raised over $10,000. Four hundred children were walking around Shakespeare regional park and Gulf Harbour. They huffed and they puffed as they dragged themselves around the course. 

Room 14 created an amazing series of photo challenges for the whole school to compete in. Some classes were dressed as nerds also dressed in their pjs and lots more. The whole point of the Walkathon was to raise money for our school library, to make it more interesting and put in more books for the children to read. We think that money is going to make a great start to our goal. 

There was all types of challenges like making a human clock, doing a themed pose and many more. There were 10 challenges for the year 0 to 2, 20 challenges for the year 3 and 4s, and most of all 30 challenges for the year 5 to 8s. When the children arrived back at Gulf Harbour School they got a cold icy ice block.They needed it!

Portia

Wow !! What an amazing day the walkathon, 400 students walking the whole of Gulf Harbour in their wicked class themes. Some were princesses, some were dressed as nerds! Some in Pjs , islanders, sick people even !!! 

The amazing effort of Room 14 who organised the wonderful, fun and exciting event !! Mr Brown had everybody off and away no later than 9:45 am. Doing the 30 fun photo challenges was such fun.  All sorts of fun photo challenges happened during that day, but not all classes did all 30 challenges.

The challenges were separated 10 at a time out to 30. Years 0-2 did 1-10 if they felt up to it they might have done 12. Years 3-4 went up to 20 but they are pretty fast so they probably did 25 challenges ( probably because they were so enthusiastic!) and last but no, not least years 5-8 did all 30. I think a couple of those classes did not complete all 30. 

To all the parents that took part in our amazing Walkie Talkie Walkathon, the total over $10,000. Thank you to everybody for all of your hard work in getting money to make your library more fascinating and fun! We hope you had the time of your life. (more or less)

Olivia 

Feet stomping, excitement swirling everywhere, As four hundred children dragged themselves around Gulf Harbour. It was the Walkie Talkie Walkathon organised by Room 14. What an awesome day and guess what they raised over $ 10,000 , and somewhere over that mud track sat 30 exciting photo challenges. 

One bit that everyone liked was the theme your class had to choose.  Some came as islanders, spies and some were even in their PJs as well as lots more. 

The whole point of the Awesome Walkie Talkie Walk-Athon was to raise money for our school library and for new children's books. We think this will make a huge difference to our goal.

Annalia

Four hundred kids dressed up in awesome themes to have the walk of a life time,

with challenges created by Room 14. It was the Walkie Talkie Walkathon. There was a map to guide them on their heroic walk and their reward was a treasured ICE BLOCK at the end of the journey.

All students had lots of fun doing the challenges, like the pyramid and there were many more. All of this happened all around Gulf Harbour. At the end everyone was very tired from the big Walkathon but very happy! Go GHS!

Christopher 

Wow what a great day!. The Walkie talkie walkathon was a huge success, It was really fun because we got to dress up in a theme that our class decided on. There were costumes like spies, explorers, injured people and lots of other cool things. Along the way we did photo challenges where we would have to do something with our whole class and take a photo of it. We did were human pyramids, wheel borrowing with a partners, getting a photo with all your class and a Pukeko and lots of other cool activities.

We walked around Gulf Harbour for the whole day. Just to make sure that no one got lost each class was given two maps an A3 and an A4.

Room 14 decided to give out stickers if you reached a certain amount of sponsorship. If you managed to raise $10 or more you would get a Mr.Walkie sticker and if you managed to raise $50 or more you would get a Mr.Talkie sticker. We've managed to get over an amazing $10,000

Jonathan

WOW! What an exciting day we had...

The Walkie Talkie Walkathon was awesome. The Stadium walked the farthest out of the whole school. A special thanks to the parents who walked with us. We raised over $10 000 from the walkathon. 

We also had Ice blocks at the end. The year 0-2s walked 6km and the year 3-4 walked 8km. The year 5-8 walked 16km.

There were also photo challenges that Room 14 designed like pyramid and the Mexican wave. There were 30 photo challenges all together.There were 400 kids walking with us. What a great day!

Hayato

What a great walkathon!. Every body dressed up in there class theme. I think everyone loved the walkathon. We had to walk 16 kilometres! It was so wet there were puddles the size of ponds. Year 1-2 had to complete 10 challenges and year 3-4 had to complete 20 challenges. Year 5-8 completed 30 challenges! I think Room 14 did a great job. 

A special thanks to Mr Brown for helping us create the awesome characters Mr Walkie and Mr Talkie. It was the best walkathon ever although some people took shortcuts so that was a disappointment. We had a really great day and no kids got lost on the track. Thanks to the parents for walking and looking after the children so they didn't get lost!                             

Spencer