All three teachers and almost every student at Whareama School - and a handful of parents - hit the road for historic points north tomorrow.
Teaching principal Darren Kerr said he and the other two Whareama School teachers, seven parents and 29 students, including his 5-year-old new-entrant son Harrison, would begin a journey by road and air to Paihia.
The group will be staying until their return on Saturday at The Camp, a purpose-built facility for school groups, and lessons will be taken that the children had started in Term 1 on Wairarapa Maori, clubs and places.
Mr Kerr, in his second year at the school, helped lead exchange trips for Masterton Intermediate School pupils to Japan for seven years before starting at Whareama School.
He said the group would this week visit the Waitangi Treaty grounds, Pompallier Mission, Russell Museum, Maiki/Flagstaff Hill and take a ferry ride to the Hole in the Rock and go dolphin watching in place of a day trip aboard the tall ship R Tucker Thompson, which had to be cancelled.
