Senior Report - Term 2, Weeks 7-8

Senior Report - Term 2, Weeks 7-8

Marine Amabassadors

On Tuesday the Marine Ambassadors went to a workshop. We went to Mordialloc pier where we got the chance to do litter surveys in the beach and on the surrounding streets. To do that we split up into two groups. I went with Katarina to do the street survey. We put on some gloves and got tongs and some biodegradable plastic bags and got to work. We were so surprised how much rubbish you could find in only 7 minutes. We found a lot of plastic: straws, bags and just general plastic but what there was most of was cigarette butts. There was just sooooooo many we even learnt that a sea bird has adapted to make it’s nests out of cigarette butts, how scary is that?!?!? After we walked down to the creek to look at the rubbish trap which trapped all the rubbish that came mostly from Dandenong on it’s way to the ocean. The information we collected will go to the Dolphin Research Institute and will help the government understand how much rubbish there is in that area.

By Lua 

World Ocean Day
On Wednesday the entire school dressed up in blue, green or as their favourite sea creature for World Ocean Day. The costumes form across the school were absolutely amazing with students and staff dressing up as dolphins, jellyfish, lobsters, fish, turtles and even as plastic waste. The whole school watched videos about the plastic currently in our ocean and made pledges to reduce their plastic use. The school also raised $266 dollars to go towards the Dolphin Research Institute. Everyone learned a lot about how we can make a difference to protect the ocean and every creature in it!

Woorabinda Camp

On Monday the 28^th of May selected students from 4 different schools got to go to Camp Woorabinda! We got picked up at Aspendale Gardens for the bus trip, which was about 2 hours with one stop. When we got there we worked out our groups and went for a bushwalk. Then we got to the camp and got our bags. Some of our favourite activities were the zip line, high ropes and canoeing but over all the best activity was the quest. The camp was outstanding and the Mentone Park students had so much fun.

By Ben, Daniel and Oscar

Buddies

In buddies the grade sixes and their prep buddies have been doing exploring time. During exploring time we played with toys, Lego, drawing on the whiteboards, board games, playdough, puzzles, cup construction and shape drawing. As you can see we have been having lots of fun in buddies. I even think some of the grade sixes had more fun than the preps with these activities!

Baylin

Basketball Tryouts

Last week the 5/6s got to choose if they wanted to do the basketball tryouts. We played mini games like 5 on 5 with boys and girls. Most of the 5/6s showed up. We got tested on all our skills like dribbling, passing and shooting. There are 2 teams: 1 boys team and 1 girls team. On Friday the basketball teams will be announced at assembly.

By Alannah and Amy

Remember No Trash Tuesday each week! Pack a lunch with no rubbish and go in the draw for a prize.

June Dates

Queens Birthday - Monday 11th June. This is a public holiday so no school.

Winter Gala Day - Friday 22nd June

Staff vs. Student Basketball match - Friday 29th June. Time TBC.

Last day of term - Friday 29th June.

Camp

The forms for camp are due back on Tuesday 12th. The due date for final payment of is Friday 29th of June.

Writing

Over the last 2 weeks we finished our information reports. Firstly, we chose our topic out of animals, places and people (famous). Maya did the Great Barrier Reef and I (Victoria) did dragons. Then we wrote down what we already knew about our topics, then we had a session to research. Next, we planned what we were going to write and how we would set it out. Finally, we were ready to start our draft copy. After that, we published our report on a coloured piece of paper!

Fun Facts about our topics:

The Great Barrier Reef: There are 1,625 species of fish in the Great Barrier Reef

Dragons: Chinese dragons are the symbol of Yang, the symbol of heaven and is often used in celebrations like the Chinese New Year celebrations.

By Maya and Victoria

Maths

For the past few weeks we have been doing our Maths Data Project. In the project chose a sport team which was our topic. Next we researched the statistics for our team, organised these and made graphs based off our statistics. Teams we have researched include The Kookaburras Hockey Team, Richmond Football Club, Melbourne United Basketball and the Golden State Warriors. The graphs we used were: pie, stem and leaf plot, bar graph, line graph and dot plot. Next we calculated the mean (the average), median (the middle number) and the mode (the most reoccurring number) for each of our graphs. After that we did the analysis, which means we looked at our graphs/data and summed it all up. Our teachers were all proud of us and our work.

Alex and Kate

For the last couple of weeks, we have been doing a graph project based on what we have been learning. We could choose whichever kind of sport we wanted to do. We had to create a Line Graph, a Bar Graph, a column Graph and a pie chart. We collected data on what sport we were doing and put them in graphs. We did the pie chart on the computer and the rest in hand. After that, we had to find the Mean, Mode and Median of the data we collected. Then we had to write an analysis on our project. I chose to do my project on the 2016 Olympics and I had great fun doing it and I hope everyone enjoyed it to.

By Arunita

Inquiry

Over the last couple of week for inquiry we have been learning about Australian Federation and all the different colonies from colonisation. The classes in the 5/6 area have learnt what the map of Australia looked like and how it changed a lot before we became Australia. This includes:

Tasmania before was once called Van Diemen’s land.

Western Australia was once called Swan lake.

And many more.

By Irene

STEM

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. For STEM, I am doing a model car that can travel for more than 1 metre(compulsory). We also use recyclable materials and my group was inspired by a set of instructions from our research. When the testing begins, the teachers give the model a gentle push, we have to work in groups of 2 or 3.

By Holly

For STEM, I’m making a car that can at least move one meter by itself. We get to work in partners of three. My partners are John and Kade. We are planning to get a tissue box and put Lego wheels on it and we will use a sling shot to fire the car for a metre.

By Julian

Student Writing

People should use much less plastic
By Layla

Plastic is everywhere which is not good at all! Plastic is something that can’t be recycled and just gets dumped into landfill, harming so many things. We use tonnes and tonnes of it each year! We have to use much less rubbish or it will badly affect our world.

Every day we use lots and lots of plastic and all of it goes to landfill and I KNOW that it’s not good for our lakes, Earth, oceans, animals and much, much more. If you don’t believe that it’s very bad for the world then look it up! I believe with all my heart that I will not stop until we use much less plastic… Hopefully none at all.

Plastic does not break down. Every bit of plastic in landfill will stay in landfill forever. All the bits of rubbish in the world staying there and what will we do when there is too much plastic? What’s going to happen? We can’t live in a world surrounded by plastic! I don’t think you would like it either, would you? 

I 100% know that we need to stop using so much plastic. I hope you like swimming in the sea with clear, fresh water. Enjoy it while you can! At this rate the sea will be pretty dirty with plastic floating about in it soon. Do you want that?

If you want to help, do little things like bring your own reusable bags when you shop or bring a reusable coffee cup. Whether you use a reusable cup or help clean up the beach or just limit the amount of plastic you use, remember every bit counts!

Marine Ambassadors Workshop

World Oceans Day