Leaving at 9:00pm on Saturday 12 August, a group of 21 Year 9 students departed for the 2023 Ski Trip. Knowing we were setting off on a long bus ride, we were lucky enough to be able to spread out with a double seat each for as much sleep as possible. Arriving in Mt Beauty a quick 16 hours later, the adventure had commenced.
We thank the staff who attended the 2023 Ski Trip: Samantha Ramm, Nathan Gillard, Scott Watson and Kate Seidel. Most of the work for this camp takes place before we leave and for that we are extremely grateful for Deb Davis who takes on the bulk of this – all while still running our library and working in classrooms to support students.
Students who didn’t go on Ski Trip were involved in a range of activities and excursions. These were orgnanised by Ms. Travers and involved a range of different teachers and SSOs. Thank you to all of the staff who made these events possible.
Below are some highlights of the week from our students:
GHS Ski Trip (Madi Clogg)
In Week 4, many of the Year 9's from Gladstone High, Jamestown Community and Booleroo Areas School experienced a lifelong memorable camp. We left Gladstone late Saturday night and travelled all night arriving at Mount Beauty around 12 o'clock Sunday. We stayed at the Mount Beauty Park and travelled an hour up the mountain early each morning. We had small group lessons running for approximately an hour, learning a different skill we could then put into practice after lunch. We began on Mousetrap, when we were comfortable skiing, moving on to the green (basic snow plough use), blue (basic skills plus turns and jumps) and by the end of the week, black (steep, windy and long) routes.
Apart from the pain of putting snow boots on and walking, we all had an amazing time. On Thursday, we left Mount Beauty , enjoyed lots of Mcdonalds, lots of powernaps, before arriving back at school around 10.30 Friday morning. Thank you to Mrs Seidel, Miss Ramm, Mr Gillard, Mr Watson and everyone else who helped make the week run smoothly!
GHS Year 9 Activity Week (Matthew McKerlie)
In Week 4 of the 3rd term, Year 9 students from Gladstone High School that did not go on the week-long Ski Trip had a week of excursions and activities.
We had three excursion days, the highlight of the week was Wednesday, that day we went to Blyth Cinema and watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part one, after we drove to Clare and got to walk around unsupervised for about an hour, it was really fun walking around with friends in the city streets and was a nice refresher before going back to school.
My personal second favourite of the days was Tuesday, where we went to Port Pirie, and went bowling. Bowling was very entertaining, and in between we could by drinks and play other games like Pinball, after we went to Subway and McDonald’s for lunch.
On Monday we went to Crystal Brook and bought some food and drink before going to Bowman Park and did a scavenger hunt, it was fun to walk around in the wild.
Lastly was the two activity days, which comprised of multiple fun activities like making coffee, and going to the Booyoolee Brew.