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Looking to the Future The School Captains, along with the rest of Year 9, spent Transition Week looking at a range educational pathways to shape their futures. Thomas, Grace, Naomi, Taneesha and Oscar (Sport Captain) explain:

The Wordsmiths This Semester, the Year 5/6 Amazing Authors have been very busy honing their writing skills in a variety of different ways. Their work has been published on the Middle Years Amazing Authors blog: http://myamazingauthors.weebly.com/. They’d love if it if you could take some time to read their work and leave some positive and constructive feedback!

Commemorating ANZAC Year 4 students analysed The Ode. Bhumika and Ethan explain:, ANZAC Day was marked with commemorations on both the Early Years and Middle Years Campuses

Fire Fight The Preps students had a visit from the CFA Fire Fighters they said:

Pushing the Limits 5/6 Fast Track and a couple of Year 4 students took on the districts fastest Cross Country runners. Carla and Rebecca explain:, Sport Captains, Finnen, Oscar and Taj with 7/8/9 Fast Track students where tested in trying conditions in Anglesea. Here are their thoughts:

Tech Savvy Year 5 students have been designing apps and creating websites. Marco, Nash and Stephanie explain:, Nash - Animal Facts, Stephanie - Music and Singers, Marco - Sport Info, Kim - Different Drawing Styles, Emma - Hair Craze

Raising Funds The SRC have been busy. The Early Years SRC representatives explain:

Rockin' the Suburbs After months of rehearsals, Performing Arts and MAD Academy students put on an extraodinary show on the big stage, at the Plenty Ranges Theatre:

Bedtime Stories Acro the Acrobatic and Amazing Alien by Sereen, Amelia the Amazing Alien by Gurleen, The Mystery Creature by Cailin, The New School Girl by Mia

Shark Tank Year 8 Humanities students have been looking into getting new products to market. Kushi and Thulasi explain:

Two Stories The Rescue by Jad, The Lost Donkey and Rabbit by Ruby, The Shark and the Cheetah by Akira, The Magical Kingdom by Kirat

Out of Orbit Year 5 students have been uncovering the secrets of how the Sun, Earth and Moon move. Here's how they went about debunking myths:

Chemical Heart Year 7 students have been exploring the Periodic Table. Jordan D. explains:, Use the periodic to find the symbols for the groups of elements below. Each group should spell a different cartoon character:

Lava Mountain This term in 5/6 SANE, modelled how to perform a mixture experiment for the Year 2 students. Michelle has provided the experiment for you to try at home:, What is happening?

Animal Dissection The Young Einsteins had their first dissection. Michael, Olivia and Lara shared their experience:

Community Planners Year 8 students have been creating a large, environmentally friendly and self-sustaining island community.

Ye Olde Life Year 1 students went to Bundoora Farm Heritage Village to get a taste of the "good ol' days". Here's what they said about it:

A Good Sign Students across Prep to Year 6 have been learning to sign in Auslan. Year 5 students explain what they have worked on this term:, Auslan Club, Introducing Yourself

The Leaders:Sports Captains Banner Photo

The Leaders:Sports Captains Helena , Oscar, Indi , Taj

Term 2 Awards Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

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The Wordsmiths

This Semester, the Year 5/6 Amazing Authors have been very busy honing their writing skills in a variety of different ways. Their work has been published on the Middle Years Amazing Authors blog: http://myamazingauthors.weebly.com/. They’d love if it if you could take some time to read their work and leave some positive and constructive feedback!

This semester in Amazing Authors we have been busy because of all the writing we have been doing. We have been learning how to use the five senses to enhance our writing. We have also used a lot of adjectives to make our writing pieces more interesting.

Lately we have been writing texts to persuade people to come to The Lakes. We had to include a range of arguments and supporting evidence. We then made videos using our text as a script.

Next term we will be going to the Melbourne Writers Festival to see a great author, Graeme Base. He has made wonderful books such as The Legend Of The Golden Snail, Jungle Drums and Uno's Garden.

Thanks for reading,

Andre Yr5

Hello, I'm Mackenzie M from Amazing Authors and I'm here to share what we've been doing this semester.

We started off by fighting an army of evil cows trying to take over the world! Nah, I'm just kidding, we started off by writing narratives that could be about fighting cows trying to take over the world. To give us topics to write about Laura posted a folder of pictures on Showbie for us to look at. She also taught us about Freytag's pyramid (to help us with plot structure) and VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation). Laura also helped some of us write shorter stories.

After we finished narratives we moved on to defeating the evil cows one by one. Nope, I'm just kidding (again). We moved on to writing descriptive pieces. We learnt about using the five senses in our writing so we can deeply describe our battle with the cows. We have learnt to use adjectives to describe something deeply and make the reader feel like they’re in the story with us.

We finished off this semester by celebrating our victory because we defeated the cows. Hang on a second why are cows such a big part of this writing piece? We had nothing to do with them all semester.