Grade 8 matches record for having entire class pass the advanced orienteering during the middle school's Sept. 24-25 Wilderness Experience at Amigo Centre.

In the orienteering course, each canoe group must find hidden clues on the lake using a compass and clues on how to get from one location to the next. As a fun incentive, canoe groups get a utensil for their evening spaghetti supper for each task successfully completed. This is the second class, the first being last year, to have all groups earn all their utensils.

The grade 8 class also spent the day and a half camping and learning other outdoor survival skills such as building fires, cooking over a fire, and canoe rescue, Grades 6-7 stayed in cabins and rotated among 6 different classes. This year's courses were wild edibles, animal tracks, macro (looking at small insects up close), canoeing, archery, and cooperative games.

During the evening students played capture the flag and met around the campfire for popcorn and worship.

canoe rescues

Cooperative games: Students worked together to move people from one island to another via rope, including some who were blindfolded

wild edibles: Paul Steury of Merry Lea led students on a hunt for edible plants growing in the wild

Archery

macro

canoeing fun

worship