Middle School News

Premier's Spelling Bee Finals

On Friday 16 August, Harrison and Patrick participated the regional finals of the Premier's Spelling Bee. Both contestants had been busy preparing for this day for many months. They both represented our school with pride and were supported by their classmates. Harrison made it to round 3 spelling words like steel, burrow and straighten. Patrick participated in the senior competition spelling the words theme, supermarket and exhaustion. Congratulations to both Harrison and Patrick on your fantastic effort in this competition.

Ag Plot Visit

As a part of the Science unit "Living off the Land", students in Years 5 and 6 visited the Ag plot. We were looking at the different layers of soil and how this may affect how plants and crops grow in different soil types. Thanks to Mrs Upjohn and the Academy Primary Industries class for helping us to understand the difference between loamy, sandy and clay soil.

Olympics

Years 5 and 6 have been busy researching Australian athletes who were participating in the Paris Olympic Games. They created colourful posters full of information on their chosen athlete.

Art Competition

Well done to Middle School Elective students Noah and Dylan whose drawings have been entered in the Frost Over Barraba Art Competition. Students looked at Australian animals and made works based on ways they adapt to their environment. The theme of Dylan's second work was the upcoming Lunar Year of the Snake.

Stage 4 Minecraft

STEM Punks

UCS recently had a visit from the STEM Punks team. Students from Years 5 - 8 learned about Design Thinking and had lots of fun coding a microprocessor to collect data about our environment. There was even a Lego building task and we built a sensor to test the water quality of the bubblers.