Student Voice

On Thursday, people from the Origin Energy Foundation came to teach us about Solar Buddies! We learnt about many things including energy poverty, how solar panels work but also how Solar Buddy’s help people living without energy. Then we made our own Solar Buddy’s to send to people without energy. We also wrote a nice letter to who was going to get out Solar Buddy. I had so much fun building the Solar Buddy’s and wish I could do it again. Ned 6P

This week we had a visit from origin foundation!! We learnt about energy poverty, how solar panels work and we got to create a solar buddy. We also made a letter to send them off to someone in the world without electricity. When we created a solar buddy, it was really fun and it felt good to give solar buddy to someone who needs it. I loved the activity and I want to help more people. Fred 6P

I really enjoyed making solar buddies so that students that don't have light after dark can study for school. Zahlia 6P

I'm really happy that we got to make solar buddies for people without energy - Jawad 6P

Today we had an incursion with the people from Origin Energy Foundation. We made torches for students like us so they can do their homework at night. - Zein 6P

I am really happy with the work I produced within the hour and we were given time to learn about solar power. I enjoyed writing a letter to a student to talk about myself and how much I liked the solar buddy I built. Nina 6P

On Thursday, some people from Origin Energy Foundation came to teach us about energy poverty. We also made solar lights for students in Papua New Guinea to study after dusk. – Hector 6P

On Thursday the 3rd of August, my class got to learn about energy poverty and how others aren't as lucky as us. We got to put together a small solar buddy to help others study at night! I really enjoyed writing a nice note to send to a student. I really enjoyed this lesson and would love to learn more about it! - Mika 6P

This Thursday we had an incursion with Maddie News' dad, Chris and his co-workers came to the beehive to teach the year sixes how to construct a mini solar panel. Everyone was so exited to make the solar panels with their partners and once we got started we never stopped. We all had such a fun time building and writing notes to the people who need light. -Georgia 6P

On Thursday we made lights for people in Papua New Guinea that have no power. – Ben 6P

Thank you for this experience! I really enjoyed it. I learnt a lot from this, and I felt sympathy for the people in need. I had no idea so many people didn’t have access to energy. From Muhammad 😊  

Thank you for giving us this very enjoyable lesson. I really loved it, and it helped me learn a lot. This also relates a lot to some lessons we did at the start of the year. From Charlie 😊 byeeeee! 

Thank you so much to origin. It was an amazing learning experience and I’m so happy these are getting sent to people in need! 😊 - Ava 6k! 

Thank you to original energy for giving time to help with our lesson. This was very fun creating solar lights to help people in need without energy in Papua New Guinea. Rachel 6k 

Thank You to Origin Energy for showing and teaching us about energy. Making these lights showed me the disadvantage of people and kids who do not have access to electricity etc... I hope these lights can give joy to the kids who need them. Jina 6K 😀  

We got to learn about the people who live without lights and electricity, did you know around 986 million people are extreme energy poverty We also got to make solar lights and build it ourselves. From Juhanah 6P

On Thursday Origin Energy came to year 6 classes to teach us about solar buddies so we can send to kids around the world. Asiya 6P

Year 4 Science

In Year 4 science this term: Our focus is 'Beneath Our Feet', the name of our Earth sciences unit. Students have been sharing their current understandings of the make- up of our Earth, and making distinctions between its layers, gaining a more refined conceptual knowledge of just how massive our planet is. After reading the amazingly interesting book 'The Street Beneath My Feet', students created a poster to show their understanding of the layers of the Earth beneath their feet.

Check out the book here: https://youtu.be/Vh8BHHp04nk

Look through the gallery or scroll on for pictures of student work!