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Students in 4T recently completed some amazing descriptive writing pieces they’d love to share with the IPS community. Students focussed on an image of a bushfire and incorporating their senses, vocabulary tools, and figurative language to compose some inspired, emotive creations. Congratulation 4T!

Adele 

The Devil in the sky atrociously filling the air, covering the land like a blanket being thrown onto a springy mattress. Awful cracks fiercely getting harder to ignore like a wolf howling at the crusty full moon when it’s dark. The shocking heat drives up my sweaty arm burning like tsunami crashing up the shore.

Chloe

Ashes falling to the Dirt like snowflakes. Dry ashes, while they crush into my hands like holding something I hate. Wild fire smoke, I breathe heavily like I got a heart attack.

Danielle

Crackling flames rapidly grow like combining clouds. Sickening smoke slowly rises into clouds like a turtle climbing Mt Everest. Gloomily I hugged the collapsed animals like a loving mother rocking her baby to sleep.

Gemma

Orange and red flames rapidly cover the burning treetops like an explosion out of control. 

Sickening smoke dreadfully escapes into my lungs as if someone had clutched me by the neck. Scorching heat slowly surrounds me like I’m being roasted inside an oven.

Keira

The Raging Fire

Howling in the wind, the raging fire sways like crazy and burns the trees to crisp in the darkness of the night.

As they die the animals yelp in pain as I, sadder than a blueberry pie on the ground cry in sorrow.

Like a tiger about to pounce on its prey, the smoke circles around me as the sent goes up my nose as fast as a bullet.

Manny

The Burning Forest

The sizzling inferno burns the forest to the ground like an active volcano. Like a firework, I can hear the crackling flames wildly shooting sparks into the air. Like a robber, breath-taking smoke steals oxygen from poor old me.

Max

Like the night taking over the light blue sky, the crackling fire engulfs the enormous trees. Like a baby brother breaking wind, the horrid smoke rushes up your nose. I hear the explosively loud screams of the dying animals like a lost child.

Toby

Like a car being pulled into a tornado, scorched trees are falling into the raging inferno. The screeching of animals echoes around the forest as they desperately try to evade the fire like a gorilla swinging away from a poacher. I can smell thick smoke slowly rising miles and miles above the trees. Hot ash climbs rapidly through the once-clean air.

Fire is everywhere

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DLT - Robotics and Coding in Foundation

The DLT contribution we request early in Term One continues to service our students needs around technology in education. Next year we will need to replace a fleet of laptops that have reached end of life, purchase collaborative furniture for our proposed discovery centre, provide professional learning for staff as  well as lots of other engaging resources for students. Please consider meeting this financial request early Term one 2021 if it is within your means to do so.