Beach Cookout

Beach Cookout

On Wednesday the 1st of July 2020 Room 8 and I went to Watson’s Creek for a beach
cookout for a WPC (William Pike Challenge). Billie H, Indi, Charlie T, Donna and I were
in a group.  Before we left we looked at RAMS (risk assessment management systems).
We then got our ingredients/equipment ready and walked to Watson’s Creek at 11:00am.
I brought butter, two knives and a pan. My group made sausages, potatoes and s’mores

Once we got to the beach we dug a small hole in the sand and put large rocks around it
to make a fire ring. After making a fire ring we collected tinder, kindling and
fuel/firewood to make/prepare our campfire. We decided to make a teepee for our
campfire so we created the structure. Ms Kemp gave us three matches to light our
campfire but we only used one match. 

Once our campfire was ignited we put our potatoes that were covered in tin foil on
the edge of the fire. We found clean sticks and put our sausages on them to cook them
over the fire. We put our sausages in bread and put sauce on them. They were good! Next
we got our potatoes out and ate them with butter. After we found more clean sticks, we
cooked our marshmallows and made s’mores with them. They were also good. We put our
fire out with water and sand. Once the fire was extinguished we packed up and walked
back to school.

I enjoyed cooking the sausages and trying to cook the perfect marshmallows. I also
enjoyed making a rock s’more.

William Pike Beach Cookout

Today room 1, room 8, teachers, teacher aids and parents went down to the Karoro beach
near Watson's creek and the Tasman sea. The people in my team were Sam, Xavier, Callan,
Grace and I. Also the parent supervisor for my team was Matt Levein.

We went on the 3rd of April in the morning in Autumn during the open fire season.

My team made a tee pee campfire and surrounded it with rocks. First we dug a hole in the
ground. After digging a hole everyone got pieces of wood and put them into a pile. We then
started to build the tee pee out of the sticks. We searched for big rocks to surround it and
then lit it with the match after. Lastly Matt put a grill on top of the rocks so we could cook
our food.  

All of my team took some food or Cutlery to school for the beach cookout. We made steak
with potatoes and garlic butter for our main course. For our desert we cooked bananas and
put chocolate sauce and mini marshmallows inside. We also cooked our food on a grill when
there were hot embers and small flames left. We wrapped the potatoes in tin foil and cooked
them in the fire and on the grill. As we cooked the bananas we left them inside of their skin
so they wouldn’t get dirty from the grill.

We went to the beach cookout for the William Pike challenge and we had lots of fun cooking,
eating and making campfires. Our classes also went to learn new skills as a team. The skills
my team learnt were how to build a campfire and how to cook really good food.

I personally thought that the beach cookout was a good experience and I would do it again but
next time I would bring bread and a rubbish bag. Next time I’d wear more enclosed shoes as
well. I really enjoyed making the tee pee campfire because I haven’t made one before.
I enjoyed the banana split because it had lots of chocolate sauce and mini marshmallows it
was yummy.