Around the School
Welcome
We love to celebrate our students and showcase what they have been up to, both inside and outside the classroom! Below are a few things that happened over the last two weeks.
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Year 3 Travel Expo
The students chose a country to research and wrote information reports. They then used their persuasive writing skills to create a brochure and presented to their peers to encourage their classmates to visit their country. The expo was filled with passionate travel experts, costumes, creativity, samples of traditional food and lots of fun.
Mural
During Term 3, local artist Neva Atkinson, a Wollithican woman of the Bangerang people, alongside some of our students painted a mural within the primary school area.
The Mural is about the school, its town and surrounding community. The concentric circles denote the nearby meeting places. The main place, Wollithica (Echuca) shows the three surrounding rivers Dunghala, (Murray River), Yakoa (Campaspe) and Kailla (Goulburn River). Within the river is the totem, the long neck turtle, and the cod, a local food source much loved by our people.
Moama is the centrepiece, incorporating the School logo as a scar tree representing the removal of wood for a shield. The other smaller meeting places are Rochester, Mathoura, Deniliquin and Barmah.
The mural is finished with handprints of students from the school, giving it the approval of their signature. With the main artist’s hands on the far left, underneath the symbol of Rochester.
We thank Neva for her creativity and passion for this project and educating students on our local Aboriginal culture.
Feathers and Fur
Miss Moon's 9/10 Visual Arts class have been busily working on their Feathers and Fur task. The class have tried their hand at airbrushing and water-soluble mediums. Take a look at some of their finished pieces.
Southern Cross Aged Care visit
On Wednesday afternoon, our Primary vocal ensemble Jr Singers, visited Southern Cross to perform for the residents and as part of a fundraising event Southern Cross were hosting.
Jr Singers performed a variety of songs, which was received with enthusiastic applause and appreciation from the crowd!
After singing, students enjoyed an afternoon tea with residents and had an opportunity to chat and engage in conversations together.
Mandarin Maths
On Monday the 14th of October, 5 Briggs finessed in to Mrs Barber’s class with our mandarins in our hands, looking at them in hunger. Both the Year 5 classes were experiencing Mandarin Maths and we all thought it was the best maths lesson in Year 5 because we got to eat our mandarins. – Amelie Pearce
This event is held by Mr Davidson. He has been collecting data from mandarins if the amount of segments have gone down or up. This experiment also tells us if the pips in the fruit increase or decrease. In 2019 most of the mandarins were from big supermarkets so most were seedless. But there were still a lot from backyard mandarin trees. The highest amount of seeds actually came up to 35 seeds in just one mandarin. – Maddie Davy
The range of segments in a mandarin was 8-13. The most common (mode) number was 11 segments. The average (mean) was 10.45. There was 491 segments altogether. Then we had to guess how many pips were in the mandarin. The range of pips was 0-35. The most common number was 0. – Julia Dunn
I found the day fun because we got to eat mandarins and have a very interesting maths lesson. I brought in a very big mandarin so the most challenging part of the lesson was eating it all. A thing I found interesting was that 16 people in the class had no seeds. That is one third of the class. Most of the mandarins that had no seeds were from Coles and Woolworths. – Jordan Dalziel
We all had lots of fun and all worked really hard. Especially because we got to get juicy mandarins all over our faces. – Abbey Hall
Measurements in Kinder
The Kinder’s enjoyed estimating and investigating the volume and capacity of different containers in the sunshine this week.
Moama Lions Youth of the Year
Three students from Moama Anglican Grammar competed at the Moama Lions Youth of the Year Competition, with the interview being held on Sunday 13 October and the prepared speeches being delivered on the evening of Tuesday 15 October at the Moama RSL.
Alysha Toohill, Hamish Smith and Isabelle Williams competed in the event. These students were interviewed by a panel of Moama Lions Club members on Sunday, the interview forming the majority of their mark. On Tuesday evening, students were required to answer two impromptu questions on local issues. In addition to this, students had created a five minute prepared speech on a topic of their choice; Alysha spoke about climate change, Isabelle's topic was 'regret' while Hamish spoke about the need for youth to be 'free range' instead of relying on technology.
All students delivered their content extremely well. Hamish won the public speaking award and the overall competition, which will take him through to the next round held in February or March next year. Thank you to the Moama Lions Club for hosting the competition and to the families of the three competitors for their ongoing support.
'Let me love you' Junior Wellbeing workshop
Reflections from Year 6 students:
On Wednesday the 9th of October, Warren from the ‘Love Me Love You’ community came in and talked to Year 4-6, about the important things in life. We traced our hands and wrote on the fingers five humans/animals that we could talk to and trust. We also wrote down things that we enjoyed or calmed us, as well as things we disliked or made us irritated. Personally I learnt a lot about myself and my friends. It was totally worth my time and was a great experience, We loved it. - Tayli McKenna
We found the love and belonging speech very beneficial. It helped us to identify the important things that make us happy. We wrote five people that we love and trust. We also wrote some things we enjoy doing and some things that we don’t enjoy. - Amelia D’Angri
Extract from the 'Let me love you ' website:
One of the most effective ways to fight stigma is to change perceptions from a young age.
Working with young Australians aged 8-12 years old allows us to reduce stigma and teach skills that can become a part of healthy lifestyle as they move through life’s stages.
This workshop allowed participants to develop an awareness and understanding of wellness. This will assist in not only lowering the impact of potential mental health difficulties but also enable them to develop coping skills to deal with some of life’s challenges.
We thank Warren for joining us and teaching these vital skills to the students.
Year 5 Mini Art Show
Students were taken on a TINY journey through art history at lunchtime last week. Visitors to the exhibition crawled along with their magnifying glasses to learn about some of the world’s most famous artworks. These giants of the art world are not on loan from the world’s greatest art museums but have been created in miniature form by Year 5 Visual Arts students who spent last term investigating the role of museums and studying the work of a notable artist in order to create their own exhibition of mini replicas!
HSIE Market Days
Secondary Market Day!
Students had a great time purchasing food items from stalls and listening to music during lunchtimes. We are very thankful for donations from Moama Bakery for one of the stduents stalls.
The Year 9/10 Justice, Money and Markets classes have been working hard over the past few weeks to plan their own school-based enterprises as part of the $20 Boss Program.
This is an immersive learning program for building the enterprise skills of young people that has been developed by the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) and is backed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Start Smart Program and Financial Literacy Australia. The program gives students $20 of start-up capital to create, launch and operate a small, school-based business venture with a group of other students.
At the end of the program, the students will repay their original $20 of start-up capital and then donate all of their profits to the Cancer Council.
Secondary Market Day
Primary Market Day
