Carlsruhe Annexe / 

Main Campus - Year 4

What a busy and exciting start the Year 4 students have had to Term 2! 

Last week in Year 4, students explored the significance of ANZAC Day. Through a range of engaging activities, they deepened their understanding of this important occasion while remembering and honouring the brave men, women, and animals who served our country with courage and made great sacrifices. 

This week, students took part in the River Detectives incursion, where they learned how to assess the health of our local waterway, the Campaspe River. Nicole Howie from North Central CMA taught the Year 4 students how to conduct several tests that we will use throughout the year to continue to record the health of our waterways. 

Students in 4BE enjoyed the incursion and shared their thoughts below:

• The incursion was really fun and I learnt how to keep the river alive  - Ayla

• We used science equipment to check the levels of PH in the water - Cooper

• We found out that the rivers health was excellent using chemicals and sientific tests - Minato

• We tested the health of the river and found out how to look after it’s health - Phillipia 

• We used test tubes to test the PH levels of the water. Nicole taught us a lot and it was fun - Tessa 

• Nicole helped us test the water to see how healthy it was - Oliver 

• We met Nicole for our first River detectives excursion. She taught us how to conduct several tests - Ruben 

• The River detectives incursion was really fun because we got to test water from the Campaspe river - Lucy

• The incursion was really fun. It was great finding out about the health of the Campaspe river - William 

• Nicole showed our class some really cool posters of others in the community working to improve our waterways - Sophie. 

• I was testing the water from the Campaspe river as a “River detective” We tested how fast electricity would move through the water - Nate 

• We used a chemical that tested the amount of salt in the water - Maggie 

• We tested how murky the water was because fish need clear water to breathe and mud clogs their gills - Dalton

• Today we were river detectives and we looked at the health of the water - Finley

• The river detectives was really fun. We got to do lots of experiements and did some really cool things - Lucas 

• We talked about and tested the water from the Campaspe river. We did lots of experiments - Maddie 

• The incursion was really fun. We got to learn about the Campaspe river and how to test the water - Milly 

• The tests showed that the water from the Campaspe river was good for fish - Alex

• We used test tubes and poured water in them. Then we put a chemical in to test the health of the water - Ajay

• We were put into groups of four and used lots of science equipemt to test the health of the water - Isla

• During the river incursion I really enjoyed adding chemicals to the river water to test how healthy it was - Archer 

Year 4 Teachers

Ashleigh Dodds (4AD), Brenda Elliot (4BE), Katherine Richardson (4KR)