Middle P’s Prattlings

A group of middles goes to camp and build’s hut’s to see what their score was when their huts are tested in different conditions such as Earthquakes and Storms.

Group five arrived at the hut building on 21^st August to find a whole forest of trees and sticks. The activity was hut building so they got to work. There was a big creek with no water in it so it was the perfect place to build a hidden hut.

Most huts built in the creek didn’t get a very good score but the builders got to be lazy because they didn’t have to build walls.

Some groups had tyres, others had twigs but all of the students worked the hardest they ever worked to build a waterproof/earthquake proof hut.

Each had an hour to make a hut that had to hold the whole group. After an hour had slowly gone by it was announced that it was time for testing.

“They poured 4 litres on my hut.” Said Nick a pro hut builder who won the competition for hut building in his group. The first hut was rated nine out of ten, the next was rated nine out of ten too.

The next hut was a disaster with the rain test. The students in it were pretty wet but the hut was pretty earthquake proof so in the end they got rated eight and a half out of ten.

The next was disgraceful and they got soaked! But they were strongest in the group. When an earthquake appeared they were all prepared with no collapsing wood in sight.

“I felt cold and wet.” said David R one of the kids that was in the hut that got soaking wet.

Hut two was good but with the earthquake test anyone in it would have been killed because all the sticks started falling down and then the bark fell down on the rug, (a garbage bag found in the remains of an other old run down hut found in a bunch of bushes).

“ I was wet cold and nervous.” Tom said.

There were many other huts being built at the time but all of them were really good and almost every one got wet! In the end everyone got to destroy the huts and throw every thing away and crush the sticks.

“I felt cool.” said Jemma.

The middles had lots of fun making huts I wonder what they will do next year at Anglesea.