Students in Year 9 Purple homeroom are working together to virtually walk the distance from Lilydale to Surfers Paradise in Queensland while obeying the Stage 4 lockdown restrictions. A Google Sheet was posted on the 9 Purple homeroom Google Classroom page where students have been adding the number of kilometres they are walking each day. These numbers are added up automatically, and the total kilometres walked is included.
Most of the class has been walking almost every day, and we have seen some great results. Just one week in, the class has already walked a total of 188km, enough to reach Wangaratta after a stop at McDonald’s in Glenrowan to get a soft serve ice cream.
The idea for the homeroom challenge came from our homeroom teacher, Ms Ann Collins, to make sure that everyone in the class was all getting time in the sunshine, to give everyone a goal to work towards and to give the students some motivation to exercise during remote learning. The challenge has worked brilliantly. The students have been getting lots of time out in the sun. Hopefully, we’ll reach our destination soon.
