Principal's Message

Dear Students, Parents, Carers and Families

YEAR 1 & 2 MELBOURNE MUSEUM EXCURSION

On Tuesday 8th August 2023, the Year 1 & 2 students went on an excursion to the Melbourne Museum to further explore our Discovery concept, ‘What’s important in life?’. We visited the ‘The Bugs Alive!’ exhibition which provided opportunities for the students to explore live insects, giant models, and thousands of specimens from the museum’s entomology collection. Students learnt about the diversity of bugs’ bodies, behaviour, habitats, and life cycles. 

We saw the spiders in the Bugs Life Exhibition, I saw the spinnerets of the spiders and its hair colour was brown. Spiders make burrows under the ground like the Wolf Spider. - Axel 2B 

We saw beautiful crystals and we got to smell jars with Dung beetles, lavender, weed, rotting fruit, weeds and oranges. - Katya 2B

The biggest butterfly is called the Birdwing butterfly. Female butterflies are bigger than male butterflies. - Hawa 2B

My favourite part was when I saw the two shows, the first one had bugs bigger than people and the other one was a 360 video about volcanoes. - Renette 2B

I learnt that snails can actually be in water. – Jackson 2P

I learnt that whales used to have legs. – Brody 2P

I heard lots of different animals and I got to press buttons to hear their sounds up-close.– Maddie 2P

I learnt that diamonds aren’t blue, they are clear. – Ivy 2P

I learnt about how Earth has different layers in the dark room. – Kiahlen & Rabia 2P

This is the best day ever! We got to see so many amazing things!– Jack 1R

I liked the dinosaurs, they were so big!! – Scarlett 1J

I saw lots of different minibeasts and heard the sounds they make. – Spencer 1J

I loved looking at all the birds and plants in the forest garden. -  Charlie 1R

SCIENCE WEEK!

This week, we have been celebrating Science Week at Maramba Primary School. As a part of this, we have been learning from some of the oldest scientists in the world – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. These first scientists have passed on the lessons of the land, sea and sky to future scientists of today through stories, song and dance. We have been exploring these lessons through Deadly (meaning awesome!) Science activities during lunch time. 

The Year two students learned about an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander invention called an Emu Caller. This invention uses wind and sound to ‘call’ a make emu away from its nest so that the eggs can be collected to be eaten. The students then created their own emu caller and decorated it with Bunurong symbols. 

The Year three and four students learned about the Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps, known as the Ngunnhu to the local Ngemba people These are the oldest human-made structure in the world. The fish traps work by using stone walls to guide fish that are swimming upstream into the holding ponds where the Ngemba people traditionally caught them with their bare hands, used their spears or blocked them in ponds to be caught later. The students then worked together in the Sensory Garden to use this ancient knowledge to create their own fish traps.

Next week, the other year levels will have an opportunity to become Deadly Scientists themselves!

Take care and stay safe!

Kind regards,

Darren Wallace

Principal