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Year 5 Sports Gala

Well done to all of our year 5 students who attended a sports gala day yesterday at Callaghan College Waratah Technology Campus. Students got the opportunity to meet other year 5 students from several of our cluster schools and enjoyed taking part in a variety of activities including crossfit, tennis, basketball, volleyball and relays. Check out our photos below…

The Peasant Prince

Yesterday the OC went on an excursion to the Civic Theatre to watch a performance of The Peasant Prince by Monkey Baa Theatre Company. The Peasant Prince is a children’s book based on the true story novel Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin. It was a wonderful production and the students had a great time. 

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The Peasant Prince

On Friday the OC participated in a drama workshop with teaching artist Bali Padda from Monkey Baa Theatre Company who are responsible for the Peasant Prince performance we will be seeing this week. We had a great time taking part in games and role-play drama activities. Thank you to Bali for visiting us!

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Excursions

Term 2 is shaping up to be busy and exciting with lots of events and excursions taking place. The OC received a note today about an excursion next Thursday to the Civic Theatre to watch a performance of The Peasant Prince. We are also offering an opportunity for students in years 3-6 to attend a performance of Aladdin the Musical at the Capitol Theatre Sydney in Term 3. For copies of these notes, see below.

Peasant Prince OC excursion Civic Theatre       Aladdin the Musical permission note

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Sydney Excursion

Well done to everyone who attended our Sydney excursion on Friday. We had a terrific day participating in programs at the Botanical Gardens and Hyde Park Barracks as a culmination to our History unit Australia as a Nation. Thank you to our parent helpers, Megan and Michelle, who did a great job helping out throughout the day. Enjoy the school holidays!

Newcastle Writers Festival

Today the OC enjoyed a day out at this year’s Newcastle Writers Festival. Our day began at the Civic Theatre Playhouse where we were treated to a session presented by hilarious audiobook narrator, Stig Wemyss. Well done to Calvin for his bravery taking part in the ‘chubby bubby’ marshmallow challenge! Next we headed into City Hall to meet one of our favourite writers, Michael Gerard Bauer, the author of our current class novel- Don’t Call Me Ishmael. It was great to listen to his talk about his childhood and the moments that inspired him to become a writer. After lunch we took part in some writing workshops. Our year 6 students worked with local author and poet Deborah Kelly and learnt about Haiku poetry and enjoyed a Japanese afternoon tea. Our year 5 students took part in the Sense-ational writing workshop with author and teacher Paul Russell where we did lots of creative activities to help inspire story starters using the senses such as smell, touch and sound. Students were even lucky enough to receive a signed copy of his book The Isle of Antu. Well done, OC, for your great effort, enthusiasm and behaviour today!

 

Outdoor Education visit

Well done to everyone who took part in our first excursion of the year to the Outdoor Education Centre at Morisset. We all had a fantastic day with beautiful weather all day long. It was terrific to see everyone have a go and display courage when participating in the challenging activities. Very proud of you all! Thanks to our wonderful instructors Connie and Joe!

Thinkfest 2015

Well done to everyone who participated in this term’s Thinkfest project. Yesterday was the culmination of weeks of hard work which included brainstorming ideas for problems (in the areas of English, maths, science and history), writing scripts,  creating a skit, making a key prop, designing and painting a backdrop and creating a video diary and trailer. Thank you to this year’s host school, Cessnock West, where 11 OCs from across the Hunter region met to participate. We had a great time putting our projects together and I was very proud of the fantastic job students did performing and working with their teams. Well done to our History group who won the Best Backdrop award and to our Science and Engineering team who received a Highly Commended award for enthusiasm.

Happy Campers!

Last Wednesday our year 5/6 students embarked on an epic adventure to the Great Aussie Bush Camp at Tea Gardens for our 3 day camp.

We had a busy schedule full of fun activities lead by our enthusiastic camp instructors Georgia and Mason. Our first adventure was to the Lost Island – Mud World, which saw our happy and clean campers get extremely wet and incredibly dirty. Mr Slade also enjoyed himself filling bucket after bucket of muddy water.

After showering and afternoon tea, students went in 2 groups to the dual flying fox and archery. A highlight was playing Commando in the bush on the first night. Despite a few scrapes from some nasty plants, students cunningly worked their way through the bush to free the hostages.

On our second day the weather turned cool and damp. Raincoat clad, we headed off to Jimmy’s Beach and a bush walk to Mt Yaccaba. Unfortunately we attracted the attention of a lone dingo so we cut our walk short and headed to the beach for some games instead.

Back at camp students enjoyed some canoeing. Well done to Miss Drew who did her best to paddle to Narnia for Jarvis! Our evening activity for night 2 was the giant swing. This was amazing! I was blown away by how brave everyone was, being hoisted 15 metres high then pulling the rip cord to self-release into a massive swing.

Everyone woke early on our final day to pack up and get ready for our last activities. Both groups took part in orienteering and an obstacle course on the high ropes.

It was certainly an exhausting but fantastic few days. I’m sure there were lots of tired and voiceless kids on the weekend! Well done to everyone for their terrific behaviour, participation and enthusiasm. Be sure to have a look at the 200+ photos below.

Engineering Extravaganza!

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Today the OC attended the Science & Engineering Challenge at Kahibah Public School. We took part in a variety of team challenges including bridge building, making a bionic hand, creating a mini catapult, making an electricity network, building an earthquake stable tower and designing a water distribution system. We had a terrific day and were super excited to be announced as the winners at the end of the day. Well done, everyone! I’m so proud of you.