Urban Camp Melbourne

Early on Monday morning, students in years 3 and 4 headed off down to Melbourne for their three day Urban Camp experience. With a lot to pack in over a few days they started with a visit to Scienceworks on Monday afternoon.

Day 2 started with a trip to the Melbourne Museum to explore the Dinosaur Walk and Bugs Alive and Dynamic Earth exibitions, followed by stop at IMAX to watch Bugs: Mighty Micro Monsters 3D. After some lunch, it was on to Ice-skating at the Ice House and lastly to National Gallery Of Victoria before returning to Urban Camp for dinner and evening activities.

On Day 3, after packing up, our 3/4 group went on to the Melbourne Zoo before heading home.

Here are a few memories from some of the students who attended.

"On Monday, very early, we boarded the bus to Melbourne. I got a seat up the back with my group of friends and sat next to Lawson and Harry. It seemed to take ages to get to the city and to our first stop at Scienceworks.

At the zoo we saw the elephants before they move to their new home at Werribee Open Range Zoo. I liked the Butterfly Enclosure. I had a few land on me and we were very lucky to see one coming out of it's chrysalis. The dingos were play fighting. I really wanted to walk through the Lemurs, but it was closed.

Ice skating was the best and I would like to take more lessons. At the art gallery there was a wall of water we got to touch, with a statue behind it.

I really liked my room and the friends I shared it with, Hugo and Niels. Our accomodation had a great games room, even an old gaming machine which had Pacman, Super Pacman, Space Invaders, 1964, Galaxion and heaps more.

Our mornings were very busy getting ready each day, by the final day I was tired and napped on the bus.

I had heaps of fun on my first camp!"

Cooper

" I was feeling a bit nervous before arriving at school early on Monday, but also excited. It helped once I knew who I was sitting with on the bus. I sat next to CJ. Scienceworks was very fun because there were lots of things to do, play on and touch.

At the Museum, we did the Walk of the Dinosaurs, the bug bit and the evloving planet room. My favorite part of day 2 was ice-skating. It was a bit easy being my first time, once I got used to balancing on the skates, which was tricky.

At the National Gallery we were able to use blocks to make a pyramid. We nearly used up all the blocks before time ran out. It was pretty tall.

My favorite dinner at camp was pasta on night 2."

Sam

"On our way down to Melbourne we stopped at Euroa, by the river, for lunch and a break from the bus. When we got into the city, it was exciting and I saw some very big buildings. We went to Scienceworks. Outside, where we had afternoon tea, was very noisy because they were doing works. Inside, the Planetarium was the best part.

After not much sleep the night before, day 2 was busy. I really enjoyed the IMAX theatre with the 3D glasses. It was loud! There were types of spiders and beetles I had'nt learnt about before. One of the spiders hypnotises its prey and then eats it!

Back at Urban Camp, after dinner, we went outside for a game and then we had a quiz night. The next day was the zoo. The Meerkats were my favorite. Most of the enclosures were closed for cleaning."

Archie

" I got up at 5:30am to get ready. We hopped on the bus after hugging mum and dad goodbye. Scienceworks and the Planetarium was our first stop. I bought my first thing from the gift shop here, a stressball. My favourite thing was the games you could test out.

Day 2, ice skating and IMAX were great. The movie with the 3D glasses was cool because it felt like you could reach out and grab the bugs. At the National Gallery there was a wishing pond with a funny inappropriate statue (giggles) of a boy weeing. Lots of coins were in the water. The live reptiles at the zoo were great!"

Harry

"I woke up at 4am! I usually wake up this early. IMAX was sooooo fun, I literally thought the praying mantis was on my cheek. I remember at ice skating we were under the ferris wheel and an upside down pink house....it was pretty funny. I have some big bruises from falling. With the reptiles I liked the black-headed python, I waved at him from the front of his cage and it came towards me. Back at camp we started a game called Ding,Dong, Ditched; knocking on dorm doors and running away back to your own room trying not being captured. All of us girls were in the same room which was nice, but we didn't win the cleanest room... Niels, Hugo and Cooper did."

Jordyn

Thank you to all our teachers Dave, Kath, Kathryn and Megan and our parent helpers Duanne and Laura for making camp THE BEST!!!!!

Class 5/6

Over the past couple of weeks, students in Hayley's class have been designing and constructing buildings as part of their STEM learning this term. This was part of an exploration into sustainable living. Once completed we will present to our fellow class mates, explaining our design choices and the STEM concepts we incorporated into the project. These will be on display outside out class room soon.

Many, many hours have gone into these very intricate models.

Class 1/2

Tiny Towns

As part of their directional language unit, Ellen's students created tiny towns which include directions on how to get around it, both written and visual.

Assembly

Achievement Awards