Art, Music, PE & STEM
Division Athletics
Last Friday we had a team of 14 athletes compete in the Portland/Hamilton/Warrnambool Division Athletics Championships at Brauerander Park in Warrnambool, with some outstanding results achieved on the day, as follows:
Manaia Bremner (12/13 boys) – 1st in 800m (Q), 1st in 1500m (Q)
Georgia Lewis (10 girls) – 1st in 80m Hurdles (Q), 1st in Long Jump (Q), 1st in Triple Jump (Q)
Harper Brian (10 girls) – 5th in 80m Hurdles (Q), 7th in 200m, 10th in 100m
Layla Nice (11 girls) – 12th in 80m Hurdles, 5th in Shot Put, 3rd in Triple Jump (Q)
Austin Cunneen (12/13 boys) – 9th in 80m Hurdles, 7th in Long Jump
Oscar Phan (10 boys) - = 7th in High Jump
Connor Crawford (11 boys) – 5th in Discus, 7th in 800m
Alaska Bremner (10 girls) – 1st in 800m (Q), 1st in 1500m (Q),
Hannah Carroll (12/13 girls) – 6th in Shot Put
Will Iredell (10 boys) – 4th in Triple Jump
Jobe Lewis (10 boys) – 4th in Long Jump
Olivia Schulz (10 girls) – 6th in Shot Put
Cooper White (12/13 boys) 6th in High Jump
10 Girls 4 x 100m Relay (Alaska, Georgia, Harper and Grace Harris) came 3rd (Q)
It is a terrific achievement to even make it to this higher level of competition and all students are to be congratulated. Following these performances we now have Manaia, Georgia, Harper, Alaska and Layla all qualified for individual events, and the 10 Year Girls Relay, all qualified for the Regional Athletics Championships in Ballarat in October – an outstanding achievement by all!
District Cross Country
The Hamilton District Sports Association Cross Country took place yesterday at Lake Hamilton with a team of 45 runners being selected to represent our school across the different age groups. In ideal conditions, our students all ran extremely well, with the following students finishing in the top 8 in their respective age groups:
| 9 Years | 10 Years | 11 Years | 12 Years | |
| BOYS | Oliver Kelson – 4th | Connor Crawford – 6th (Q) Archie McCulloch – 7th (Q) Henry Brook – 8th (Q) | Manaia Bremner – 1st (Q) Kobe Fitzgerald – 7th (Q) Cooper White – 8th (Q)
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| GIRLS | Alaska Bremner – 1st (Q) Georgia Lewis – 3rd (Q) Sophie Stewart – 6th (Q) | Tilly Tosetti – 4th (Q) |
Students in the 10, 11 and 12/13 Year age groups who finished in the top 8 have no qualified for the Portland/Hamilton/Warrnambool Division Cross Country that will be held in Warrnambool next Friday 17th May – well done in particular to these students but congratulations to all of our Gray Street participants on your efforts on the day.
STEM
This week in STEM, Preps explored hard and soft materials. They had to sort different objects into whether it is made of hard or soft materials.
Grade 1/2s looked at different objects and had to use adjectives to describe these.
Grade 3/4s learned about words used to describe the properties of materials and played a game of ‘Guess Who?’ to practise using these words.
Grade 5/6s explored the effect of heat on chocolate and how changes to chocolate and water are reversible changes.
Well done to Camilla Robertson and Jobe Lewis for receiving STEM certificates this week. Congratulations to 1/2A for also receiving a class STEM award for this week.
Mr Nolan
STEM Specialist Teacher
MUSIC NEWS
Hello everyone,
In Music this week, our Preps worked on playing the beat on their bodies and with instruments.
The 1/2s learned new rhythm patterns with words and instruments.
The 3/4s played ukuleles and reviewed all the different styes of music they’ve learned this year so far.
The 5/6s also played ukuleles and did some great work improvising jazz on xylophones.
In Choir News, we were very pleased to have Lee Muktar join us this week as our conductor! Thank you Lee!
MUSIC AWARDS
This week’s class Music Award goes to 3/4A for their fantastic work in Music this week. The individual awards go to Hannah Carroll and Henry Brook in 5/6C for their great jazz improvisations.
Thank you,
Mrs Megan Garland
Music Specialist
Art News....
This was the final week that students worked on their art inspired by the artist Henri Matisse.
The preps had the chance for a free art day this week after a big afternoon of swimming. The grade 1/2's were given the opportunity to finish off any left-over work for the last four weeks.
The senior students were also given time to finish off their expressionist portraits and their own collaged creations.
There was some truly wonderful stuff made over the last four weeks and iI'm sure Ms Brown will be thrilled to se all the amazing artwork.
The art awards this week go to Daniel Heath 1/2C, Archie Stewart 3/4C and Dustie Kawau 5/6B.