Classroom News
This is what our students have been up to this week
Snowsports Years 5 & 6
Our beginner ski group last Friday had fun going down Wombats Ramble, which enabled them to practise their turning on slighter steeper terrain.
Tuesday of this week the snow was lovely and sugary. Our beginner group with Steph and Monica started on Wombats to warm up those legs, then off down Drovers and over to Broadway and onto Monkey Bar. The group where encouraged to reduce the size of the snowplough entering their turns intitiating the technique of parallel turning.
Dave's group headed off first to Drovers, then the group had a couple of turns down Highway, which was fast so this was a great oportunity to learn to slow it down by really tipping those ski edges up to cut into the firm morning snow, then back on to Droves at the students request. This enable the children to practice a drill for turning; entering their turn with the downhill ski off the snow and angling it up the hill, this helps with stance and weight shiffting. T finishing with a fun last run down Wombats where I was told some of the students found some small jumps along the way.
Juliette and Michelle explored Ruin Castle, Scotts, Highway and Towers runs with the intermediate crew working on their edge control and starting to bring those turns in to short turns.
Luke and Jake took care of our advanced skiing group heading off to Ruin Castle for their warm up, short turn practise down Rapunzels and bumps over at Summit.
Meanwhile the snowboarding crew with Charlotte and Joe where happy to learn some spins, on Highway and Towers, which works on weight transfer and edge control.
Intermediate snowboarders group
our beginner group now comfortable on green runs
fueling up with a lunch picnic
learning how to ride the poma at Monkey Bar
Intermediate snowboarders group
our beginner group now comfortable on green runs
fueling up with a lunch picnic
learning how to ride the poma at Monkey Bar
Science Week
Prep/1 and 1/2 with Ellen and Kristie undertook Stem study - The Floor Is Lava. Over two challenges, the students needed to figure out how to build a structure that would create enough room to rescue as many bears as they could. The more bears the better. Firstly with just 3 cups and 5 paddlepop sticks, then using cups, paddlepop sticks and sheets of paper.
Class 2/3 with Kim have learnt about how computers use binary coding. They then replicated this coding by making bag tags and bracelets for the first letter of their name. They also worked through how to improve a paper plane design, using innovations in air transport, by thinking about the materials they could adapt along with their designs.
Due to skiing, our 5/6 students with Charlotte and Dave will be undertaking their science classes next week.....stay tuned.
On Wednesday, many of our students had the oportunity to watch over zoom a presentation from the Antarctic Science Foundation about the importance of how "Whales, Poo & Antarctica all make the world go round!" Thank you to Dr Vanessa Pirotta for a fun and informative presentation.
X-Country Skiing Years 3 & 4
Today concludes the final lesson for our year 3 and 4 students x-country skiing event. The weather each week has been spectacular for the group, which has enabled the students to explore the x-country trails over the weeks.
