Specialist News
Visual Arts - Physical Education - Music & Performing Arts & S.T.E.M.
Mrs Denise, Mr Rees, Mr Lytton and Mr Brokate
Cultural Diversity Dance Incursion
On Tuesday 18th March the whole school participated in our cultural diversity dance incursion. Each year level learned a unique traditional dance from different cultures, guided by the professional dancers from Footsteps. This dance will be performed in front of the school community on Tuesday 1st April. The students enjoyed this fun opportunity.
STEM News Term 1
What an exciting term we have had in STEM! (and there are still 2 weeks of lessons to go before we wrap up for the holidays). The focus in our junior school (Prep and Grade 1-2) has been around materials, properties of materials, describing materials and water.
The Preps took on our Fairy Tale investigations and investigated why the Big Bad Wolf could so easily 'huff and puff' the houses of straw and sticks.
But our houses out of bricks (lego, duplo and wooden blocks) seem to be better
Then we decided to rescue the poor old Gingerbreadman and help him across the river. There were many ideas including boats, submarines, jetski bridges, stepping stones and even an airplane.
The Grade 1-2s studied the water cycle, storm drains, properities of water and even made a very basic water filter out of bottles, sand, rocks and cloth.
Walking Water
Water Bubble on coin
Water Bubble on key
Water Filters
Working? Water Filter
Walking Water
Water Bubble on coin
Water Bubble on key
Water Filters
Working? Water Filter
The Grade 3-4s had a balance of science and technology by working on the stages of the watercycle and coding both on Code.org as well as attempting to program our new spheros.
Here are some of our designs on showing the water cycle.
This was a working model that made the carpet very wet
Notice the change in cloud colour from white to grey
Rain on the mountain
The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle
The tall Water cycle
This was a working model that made the carpet very wet
Notice the change in cloud colour from white to grey
Rain on the mountain
The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle
The tall Water cycle
Finally the 5-6s had a very technology based term, continuing the journey with code.org, and then applying the knowledge to program the Sphero Robots to avoid obstacles, change design, show patterns and draw art. Next week the 5-6s will finish their mini chemical unit by making Ooblek and Floam and comparing the two substances.
3-4s working on the Spheros
3-4s working on the Spheros
Finally - this was the winning entry in this term's engineering challenge. Can you design something that will allow a candle to burn whilst submerged in water?
This candle survived for 56 seconds. It was a 'Keep it simple' build and the 2 boys tested their build before the final. There were 5 other successful builds across the 4 grades that all lasted at least 30 seconds.
