Assistant Principal
Book Week Book Parade
Last Friday we were greeted with a magnificent sunny winter's morning, perfect for the Syndal South Book Parade. All of our students were exuding excitement as they walked into our school admiring the efforts of the students and trying to guess who the book character was that they had dressed up as. Many of our families enjoyed the morning as the students walked or bopped along to the fantastic music playing over the speakers, with their grade around the basketball court.
We were all extremely impressed by the efforts that the students and their parents put into creating a costume and prizes were presented to many students across the levels. The staff also joined in the celebration and looked ever so magnificent as their book character.
John Monash Science School-“Little Scientist Program ”-Session 3
This week at John Monash Science School we learnt about Biology and living things. If you can remember from the last two weeks, the four of us (Nupur, Albin, Sanjaya and I) participated in a program run by the year 10 students at John Monash Science School. This week, we participated in three group activities.
One of the experiments that we did was looking at pond scum through a microscope. Pond scum are microscopic living things in ponds not visible to the naked eye. We needed to prepare slides to go under the microscope. So we took a rectangular slide and a thin square slide. We used the pippet to suck up some of the pond scum, which are brown coloured dots, on the water and put it on to the rectangular slide. To see a clear image we made sure that there was more pond scum than the water. Then we put some blue dye to make the pond scum more visible. After that we carefully put the thin square slide on top of rectangular slide containing the pond scum and looked through the microscope. What we were looking for was a red blob. We were told that if the blob moved, that indicated it is alive, and we managed to find one !
The next activity was looking at onion skin cells. We first had to draw what we thought onion skin looked like. I thought it would be like oval shapes lined together. Then we looked at the onion skin up close through a microscope. The microscope had three lenses that could magnify the object. The biggest lens was the strongest. The cells looked like rectangular bits that were lined up together like a brick wall. Amazing!
The last activity that we did was learning about physical and behavioral adaptations. Adaptation means the changes that help a living thing live in its environment. Physical adaptation means the features of an organism like a bird's bill. Behavioural adaptation means what the living organism does to survive. Like how birds migrate. We looked at frogs and their body structure and why they were green. We also felt the frogs skin and it felt soft but slimy as well. We moved on to the stick insects and then the grasshoppers and talked about the physical and behavioral adaptations of the two creatures.
By Sathee
Fathers Day Craft & Baked Goods Stall
The SSPS Father's Day Stall is on this FRIDAY 30th August in the library before and after school ONLY!! (8.30-9.00am and 3.30-4.00pm). Foundation students will visit with their class teacher from 9am.
The Foxy Crafters have been working very hard to produce some fantastic items that will
be on sale and prices start at $2. If students want to purchase something special for their Father from the stall they should bring their money to school in an envelope with their name on it.
