Archive | September 2018

Stage 3 Canberra Excursion

What a massive 3 days it has been for our Stage 3 students on our Canberra excursion! We’ve had a wonderful time and got to experience so many wonderful things that Canberra has to offer. We hope you enjoy all of our photos from the last 3 days. Lots of laughs and memories made. See you at home in a few hours!

What’s happening in Week 10!

Monday 24th September

*Canberra excursion departing school at 6.30am

-BYO Lunch at Mount Ainslie

-Australian Institute of Sport

-National Gallery

-Dinosaur Museum

Tuesday 25th September

*Canberra Day 2

-Royal Australian Mint

-Electoral Education at Old Parliament House

-Australian War Memorial

-Questacon

Wednesday 26th September

*Canberra Day 3

– Parliament House tour and program

-Return to school by approx. 6.30pm

Thursday 27th September

Friday 28th September

*Playground Sounds Fundraiser $2

*Last day of term 3 – Happy holidays!

OC Book Club

Well done to all of the students who read this term’s Book Club novels, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain and Words in Deep Blue. Two enjoyable books with very different themes resulting in lots of great discussion and opinions. Our next Book Club novel for the upcoming holidays is this year’s CBCA winner, How to Bee by Bren Macdibble.

Year 5/6 Fair!

A huge congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 students for the absolutely amazing job they did with this year’s Fair! Thank you to everyone who donated ingredients and products for our stalls. Everyone had a blast at our stalls. There was plenty to see and do, including Pin the Tail, Splat the Rat, Trash and Treasure, Hair and Beauty, Face Painting, Airbrush Tattoos, Ice Cream, Drinks, Pizza, Egg Splat, Obstacle Course, Jumping Castle, Popcorn, Fortune Telling, and many more!

Blogging Challenge: T3 Week 9

With the end of term approaching and Canberra next week, this will be our last blogging challenge for the term.
Reflect on the last 9 weeks, what have you enjoyed the most and what have you enjoyed the least? What’s something you’re looking forward to next term?

What’s happening in Week 9!

Monday 17th September

*Hall of Fame assembly 2pm

*Dr Elena visit

*CU students – gown sizing

*Robo Club!

Tuesday 18th September

*Story Spot  Storytelling Club 8am-9am

*Scripture/Ethics

*Stage 3 voting!

Wednesday 19th September

*Hackathon (for selected students)

Thursday 20th September

*Hall of Fame morning tea

*Code Club

*STEM groups 

Friday 21st September

*Year 5/6 Fair!

OC Treasures!

Well done to everyone in the OC who made a huge effort putting together their Book Week costumes for our parade today. Congratulations to Raquel (Glinda the Good Witch) who was voted by our class as Best Dressed and to Ellen and Edie who won our Book Week Challenge. Thank you to everyone who supported our Book Fair by purchasing book and making donations to our library.

Book Week!

There was a lot of treasure to be found at school today for our annual Book Week Parade!
It was so wonderful to see everyone dressing up as their favourite Book Week characters.
A special thank you to our wonderful Mrs Derricott for all her efforts in organising Book Week.
Please enjoy the photos and videos.