Senior Report - Term 2, Weeks 5-6
Simultaneous Storytime
On Monday
afternoon the grade 6’s regrouped with their buddies and they read a book
called Hickory Dickory Dash. In the book a mother mouse was looking for her
little mouse and looked for hours during the night. Eventually she found them in a grandfather
clock at 1am. After reading Hickory Dickory Dash we did an activity that was related
to the book. In the activity we made a clock with our buddy that had the mice running around the clock. It was a very fun activity and
you could change the time! Other schools around Australia also did this! Thanks for
reading the newsletter!
Italian Day
Hi my name is Isabella and I’m going talk about Italian day. On Tuesday we did 4 rotations. My rotations were paper pizza making, paper sculptures,
games in the Italian room and buildings with all sorts of stuff in the big
hall. Then
we went back to our class rooms to play Italian games. We ordered pizza’s &
gelatis. I ordered
margherita pizza. It was so yummy.
The end & thanks for reading.
Open Night
Hi, this is
Maya and today I will be talking about our History Open Night on Thursday! Over the last six weeks the Senior School have been creating posters, dioramas,
booklets, even a few videos on influential people from Australia’s history. Then we opened up the
school for the public to have a look at our projects. We researched a person
who influenced Australia’s history and made it what it is today. We had a set
of questions we had to answer in our projects (like ‘what would Australia be
like if your person never was a part of Australia’s history?), and they looked
amazing! A lot of us did it on either Ned
Kelly, Captain James Cook and Cathy
Freeman, but we had many more creative ideas to show. If you came on
Thursday and had a look in the Senior Building you would know what I am talking
about. The projects were very detailed and took a long time to put together. I
did my project on Captain James Cook!
It was very interesting to find more about him! I learnt that he had 7 children with his spouse Elizabeth Batts, and
was 1 of 8 children of James Cook and Grace Peace, thanks for reading!
In
Interschool sports we have played 3 schools so far Parktone, Saint Pats and
Saint John Vianneys. At the start of the term we had to choose between 4 sports :Netball, Volley Stars, Soccer or AFL. I decided to play Volley Stars. This
week we played Saint John Vianneys. Netball lost, so did Volley Stars but Footy
and Soccer won! In Volley Stars we have been practising a lot at snack and
lunch and we are getting much better at Volley Stars. In case you didn’t know
the rules they are if the ball drops in the other teams court it's a foul.
Layla
Remember No Trash Tuesday each week! Pack a lunch with no rubbish and go in the draw for a prize.
June Dates
Curriculum Day - Friday 1st June. No students at school.
World Oceans Day - Wednesday 6th June. Pay a gold coin donation and dress up as your favourite sea creature
Camp
We have now sent home note about our upcoming Canberra Camp in Term 3 with the payment details. The due date for final payment is Friday 29th of June.
Canberra
Camp Rebate Notice
Students from our school will soon be undertaking an education tour of the national capital. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.
Students from our school will soon be undertaking an education tour of the national capital. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.
The Australian Government
recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the
national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist
families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government is
contributing funding of $30 per student under the Parliament and Civics
Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate is paid directly to
the school upon completion of the excursion. We have taken the rebate into
account when calculating the final cost per student.
Reading
Hi, I’m Lua I’m going to be talking about what the Senior School have been doing in Reading this 2 past weeks. We are looking at knowing
how words work. We’ve been starting to look at metaphors, similes and idioms.
Metaphors and similes can get quite confusing because they are very similar.
Similes are compering things with other things that could have nothing to do
with it eg. Life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you’re going to
get, and metaphors are saying thing are those
things eg. Life is a highway but obviously life isn’t a highway! With idioms we
did an activity were we had to act out the literal meaning of the idiom which was
sooo much fun.
In our class we are reading Holes, a book about a boy who
gets sent to a camp for naughty boys where he digs holes for a crime he didn’t
commit. There he learns about a hidden treasure. I’ve already read it when I was
in grade 4 but it’s still nice to read it again, besides we are up to a really
interesting bit. Mr Hardie’s class have been reading class Dismissed, which
sounds like a funny book. We have Wonder and the second one of that series, Auggie and Me, which is a book about a kid with Treacher Collins Syndrome and how we must
learn to look beyond our appearances.
Writing
In
writing we have begun our new unit on information reports. On the first day, we picked the
person, place, object or animal you were going to spend the next few weeks
studying. We then looked at how you structure an information report and where you include different types of information. We will be looking at information reports even more over the next two weeks as we write about our topic.
Kate
Maths
This week in
Maths we have been learning about types of graphs. We have been learning how to
figure out the Mean, Mode and Median of sets of data. We have learnt Line
Graphs, Dot Plot, Column Graphs, Pie Graphs and Side by Side Graphs. Some
people for a challenge did Stem & Leaf Graphs. I found that the Column
Graphs were the easiest and I thought the pie graphs were the hardest. Next
week we are going to start a data project based on what we have been learning,
which is graphs. We will have to make graphs based on sporting events.
By Arunita
STEM
Last week
the senior school started another STEM project. Our challenge was to make a
model car that can travel 1 whole metre. The car also has to include wheels and
an axle. I made a group of 3 with 2 of my friends. We then had to make a plan for
what we would make. We had write things like what we needed, what we still
wanted to know and even make a sketch of what we would make. At first, we came
up with a plan where we would use a fan to help push the car along. But soon we
scrapped that idea because the fan would be too large. This week, we had to do
some research and some detailed designs for our model car. We made some very detailed
diagrams for what we will do. Then we searched up some information for the
model car.
By Victoria
Open Night - Senior History Projects
Senior Artwork
Italian Day
Simultaneous Storytime
Interschool Sport
Buddies - Craft Activities
