Year 5

Living Wax Museum

On Friday 13 September the School Hall came alive with history as the Year 5 students presented their "Living Wax Museum", showcasing their hard work and dedication to the Australian Gold Rush unit this term. This event represented an entire term's worth of effort, and we are incredibly proud of the creativity and commitment each student demonstrated. 

Students carefully researched their chosen historical figures from the Gold Rush era and brought them to life through detailed posters and engaging monologues. Their ability to stay in character and share their knowledge was impressive. 

The event was well attended by enthusiastic parents and students from Year 3 and Year 4. We extend our sincere thanks to the parents, the principal team, and staff members for their continued support in making this project a success.

Here are some accounts from students on how the day went: 

On the 13th September, the whole grade 5 cohort all dressed and presented to the school the Living Wax Museum. We made a poster about our chosen person from the Gold Rush period and we dressed up as them as well. We worked on this project for nine whole weeks so all of the grade fives did an amazing job!

Since we worked on this project for nine weeks, it was an amazing experience to finally present to the school. We told parents and the kids all about our person and they asked us a lot of questions so it was quite fun when we presented to the adults.

I would like to thank the teachers for organising the Living Wax Museum, our parents for coming along, the Vice Principals Mrs O’Flynn and Mrs Cotterell for coming along, and finally Mr Perini for coming and supporting all of the grade 5 students. It was an amazing experience because it is very rare to present to the school and for your Principal and Vice Principal to attend. So I hope all of the other grade 5 students had a lot of fun and good luck to the future grade fives doing it next year.

Marcus O, 5P

 

On 13th of September, the Year 5s contributed to the Living Wax Museum and presented their posters to parents and students. We had an amazing and tiring day of explaining to the school. Many people had amazing props, posters and costumes. Everyone did an amazing job presenting their posters and had many interesting facts. All of the people put hard effort into all of their work and did a lot of research for their beautiful posters.

Charlie and Elena, 5R

 

On the 13th September, the whole year five cohort made posters for the Living Wax Museum. It was a fun nine-week project for Term 3 and we really enjoyed it. Each student made a poster about a person from the Australian Gold Rush and on Friday 13 September we had props, costumes and really enormous posters. I would like to thank all the parents, teachers and students who spent the time to watch us present. And especially the Year 5 teachers on behalf of the Year 5 cohort for organising the event that grade fives from many other schools do not get a chance to do. 

Nik, 5P 

 

Last Friday, the Year 5 cohort presented our Gold Rush posters to families, peers and teachers. We had an wonderful experience dressing up as our characters from the Australian Gold Rush era. We interacted with lots of visitors and spoke to them about our characters involvement in the Gold Rush. It was great to walk around looking at our friend’s poster because all of us worked hard and have put in lots of effort into the project. It took us a whole term researching on the lives of our characters. We also learned about their involvement in the Gold Rush. We spent many weeks preparing for this special day and all our posters were amazing. We all had a great time being in character and we will remember this experience for years to come.

Neil and Josie, 5L

 

In Integrated, during the past term, the grade fives have been learning about their chosen identities from the Gold Rush era. Each year five student has chosen an individual of their choice who has contributed to the Gold Rush and has left a mark in history. These include mining entrepreneur George Lansell and Ned Kelly, the infamous outlaw. Then, on Friday 13th of September, to showcase our work, we had a living wax museum based on the Gold Rush era, and many ‘customers’, ranging from parents to other members of the school community came to check out our work. We set up in the hall, and had plenty of fun, telling the numerous parents and students about who we had dressed up as. Almost every visitor went out from the Hall newly educated, their brain holding much more information of various characters from the Gold Rush period. Everyone had a great time showing their information they had gathered and learnt. We left the hall feeling happy and proud of how well we had done.

Aaron, 5R

Year 6 2025 Bomber Jacket

Year 5 families have received an email with details of the Class of 2025 bomber jacket Year 5 students have chosen for next year and a link to place an order for a jacket. Orders must be placed not later than 5pm on Friday 25 October (end of week three of Term 4) if your Year 5 child wants a commemorative jacket for Year 6 in 2025.