Year 5/6 News

Our Experience at District Athletics

Idhaant, Derek and Arya   

On the 21st of August, some students went to District Athletics to compete against other schools in their assigned activities. The track events included 100m, 200m, 800m, 1500m running, relay and 80m hurdles. The field events were shot-put, discus, long jump, high jump, and triple jump. Everyone was very proud of themselves and did a very good job. Our school even had a few winners. Now we will have some of our winners talk about their experience.

"Hi, my name is Arya. I was a participant in district athletics. I won first place in the long jump, I jumped 3.9m. I came in fourth place for 100m and 200m races. There were so many fast sprinters there. I tried my best and I’m very proud of myself. "

"Hi, my name is Derek, I also participated in District Athletics. I won first place in the discus, I threw the discus 4.9m and I’m very proud of myself. I really enjoyed the day."

By Megan and Bisma

On 21st August, 5/6’s and some of the Year 4’s went to Oakleigh District Athletics. We all competed against our age levels at school and the students who came in the top ten then went to district athletics! 

We competed against other schools, in our age level. All students tried their very best to enter Division. Thankfully, we have a couple of students who will be representing our school at Division! 

We would like to thank Sunny, Radhika & our beloved sports teacher, Vimala. All of these teachers helped out during district athletics. We are eagerly looking forward to Division. We wish everyone well. 

These are the students who got into Division: Elias - first place in 800m, Derek - first place in the discus, Nandya - third place in 200m, and Rawan - first place in shotput. 

This was also Mayah's last day at Clayton North PS and she finished having had a great experience at athletics!  

EWB (Incursion)

By Nubaid, Alan and Rafsan

EWB, is an acronym for Engineers Without Borders. EWB is an organisation that has a branch at Monash Univerity. Its primary objective is to educate schools, libraries, and other communities about the structural plans of buildings. 

During their visit to our school, they provided us with information about various types of engineers and the country of Cambodia. They explained that during the wet season, most of Cambodia is submerged in water, and as a result, the majority of the population resides in stilt houses. These houses are supported by poles to keep them above the water level and prevent flooding. However, during the warmer seasons, the houses are elevated from the ground and have stairs leading to the ground.

Following the presentation of pertinent information, we proceeded to engage in the primary activity, which involved constructing a sustainable house. The guidelines were straightforward and included the following: 

1. The house must be built within a budget of forty dollars
2. It must be buoyant
3. It must be capable of holding at least one marble
4. The house that can accommodate the most marbles will be declared the winner. 
5. Participants were required to use the provided materials for construction purposes, and were prohibited from obtaining additional supplies such as sticky tape from the classroom.

Supplies:

1. Straw $1
2. String (20cm) $2
3. Cup $10
4. Popsicle stick $2
5. Sticky tape (20cm) $5

We were divided into groups of five to six individuals. The engineers provided us with a timeframe of 5 minutes for planning, 40 minutes for building, and 15 minutes for testing.

We all started planning straight away which included: a sketch of the house, “What is it going to need?” and “Is it in the 40 dollar budget?”. After the 5-minute timer, we started buying all the materials we were going to need. Then we started building the houses.

The winning house held around 130 marbles! The group was Panav, Zack, Nishcal, Alan and Nubaid. Their house was made out of 3 cups, 1 string (20 cm), 1 piece of sticky tape (20 cm) and 3 straws which equaled $40, which fitted perfectly in the budget. 

The visit from EWB Monash was fun and educational and we enjoyed it a lot.

Monash Street Law

By Gawa, Panav & Zack

On the 29th of August, law majors from Monash University visited the 5/6s and taught us about online safety. They taught us how online security is important, and the risks and harm that may be taken online.

These law students started off by introducing us to online safety. They showed us the 1998 Act of Data Protection and the 2021 Act of Online Safety for Australian youth. This act was made to protect young people all over Australia from many risks online such as; cyberbullying (when someone is bullied using technology), hackers (a person who uses computers to get unauthorised access to your data), blackmailing (when somebody threatens you in order to get your information or personal data), impersonation  (someone pretending to be someone else in order to obtain something or damage their reputation), etc. 

They then told us to get into groups and they gave us a piece of paper and a pen. We were then told to write all the ways people could be more cyber-safe and aware online. Some of our ideas included; not using the same password for all your accounts, only sharing your personal information with people you can trust, making sure to never save your password on a school laptop, not leaving your account open, and only visiting appropriate websites, because any of these actions may lead to hacking, cyberbullying etc.

Online safety is very important for children, especially for the coming generations. Today's technology is only getting more advanced every day, making it easier for people to hack, cyberbully, or exploit online data, so we should make sure to be more and more cautious of it as it advances. We are very thankful for Monash sharing this crucial information with us. We learned a lot.