Archive | July 2018

STEM Groups!

Last week, Stage 3 began their STEM groups! We made and tested paper helicopters, experimented with Strawbees creations, and coded Ozobots around a track. Each week our groups explore challenges involving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Looking forward to more scientific exploration throughout the term!

 

 

What’s happening in Week 2!

Monday 30th July

*Year 3-6 assembly 11.40am

Tuesday 31st July

*Story Spot  Storytelling Club 8am-9am

*Scripture/Ethics

Wednesday 1st August

*Stage 3 Spelling Bee 9.20am

*ICAS English

Thursday 2nd August

*Musica Viva!

*Children’s University after school session

Friday 3rd August

*Jeans for Genes Day

*Sport

NAIDOC Celebrations

What a great way to finish the term with a day full of activities celebrating NAIDOC week. Thanks to the Millibah Dance group from HSPA for joining us and to Miss Chapman for organising the event. Students enjoyed learning some Awabakal language, dance, boomerang art and face painting. Have a look at the photos below! 

Palm Oil Persuasion

Friday 22 June, was World Rainforest Day, which was all about a collaborative effort to raise awareness and encourage action to save one of Earth’s most precious resources… our rainforests. A major environmental issue is the unsustainable production of palm oil. Health Ministers from each state and territory met last week to make decisions about whether there should be laws about labelling palm oil in our food. Our class wrote letters to our minister to persuade him to make this mandatory. At our assembly. our top 3 most persuasive letters were shared by Archie, Will and Emma. Congratulations to Emma, whose letter was voted as most persuasive. You can read our letters below.

Amie   Amira   Annabelle   Archie   Chelsea   Dexter   Emma   Fin   Hamish Mon   Henry   Jules   Noah   Norah   Will   Zali

Emma & Mr Rang-Rang

Touchdown Writing!

Students have created some amazing sizzling starts for this month’s Touchdown School Magazine Writing Competition. The challenge was to write the opening to a story beginning with the line ‘If only I’d listened to Mrs Scruttlescromp…’ and they also had to use the following 10 words: scales, monster, dreary, ammunition, slimy, hissed, sunlight, complexion, farewell and clouds. Have a read of our work by clicking on the links below. Enjoy!

Dexter – Jormangandr       Amira – Detention      Annabelle – Big Buck
Archie – The Creeps       Coco – On the Verge of Tears   Callum – The Cave Beast

Chelsea – The Mansion   Will – The Monster   Zali – The Cupboard   Raquel – Appearances can be deceiving    Norah – Teacher Knows Best   Noah – Sad Song

Mika – The Screaming Continued   Luisa – The Back Storeroom   Kynan – No Way Out   Julian – The Monster   Jules – The Afterlife   Henry – My Terrible Sin   Hamish Mon – The Monster  Grayson – By the blade of my sword   Fin – The Monster   Emma – If Only   Edie – Doomed

 

 

NAIDOC Week

This week we are celebrating NAIDOC week. Thank you to Miss Chapman for organising a range of wonderful activities for each day of the week. Students did a great job designing and decorating a circular scale for our rainbow serpent which is going to brighten up the stage in front of the canteen next term.

Hall of Fame morning tea

Congratulations to all of our students who achieved Hall of Fame for Responsibility this term. Today they enjoyed a delicious morning tea with Mrs Schonberger.