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The BIG issue

This year, the school has subscribed to 'The Big Issue' magazine. This magazine is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and creating work opportunities for homeless, marginalised and disadvantaged people. 

The vendors run social enterprises to create work opportunities for people who are unable to access mainstream jobs. These enterprises operate much like traditional businesses, except all revenue is put back into the enterprises for the benefit of the individuals involved and broader community.

In order to access 'The Big Issue', visit the Library Moodle page, daily notices on SEQTA or visit the Resource Centre for a hardcopy.

Boomerang Bags

450 bags in 6 weeks!

Thank you to all the parents who assisted in the upcycling of old pillow cases to reusable shopping bags.

Boomerang bags help reduce single use plastic bags, as well as teach our children they can be part of the solution. A grassroots movement that has spread across 708 communities worldwide Echuca/Moama are proud to be involved.

In July the primary students will decorate the bags in art and take them home to keep and use.

You will also see Boomerang Bags in the uniform shop. Please boomerang these back to the office for reuse.

Join Plastic Bag Free Echuca/Moama on Facebook to find out about Boomerang Bag working bees in the community.

Year 4 Art 

Our Year 4 students have busily been making paper mache masks with Mrs Hemmings in their art classes, take a look at their fantastic creations!

Dragon Days!

Next Wednesday 20 June from 7:30pm in our Multipurpose Hall our Year 5 students will perform their production 'Dragon Days'. The students have been busily preparing to take audiences to The Stumbledorf village where villagers need a hero to save them from their terrifically terrifying dragon... or do they?  

Entomological Art 

Miss Moon's Visual Arts students have become Entomologists, studying insects for their latest art making task. The class are using coloured pencils and the burnishing technique to render their chosen insects. We cannot wait to see their final drawings.

Maths Olympics

Over the past two days Students in Years 3 - 11 put their maths skills to the test in our annual Maths Olympics! Battling it out for house points students solve maths questions as well as the infamous music quiz!

Thank you to all participating students, staff, student judges and helpers for making this fantastic event possible.

We will reveal the overall winning house at your next assembly, stay tuned...

Duke of Ed Adventurous Journey

Over the long weekend 5 students completing their Silver Duke of Ed award and 5 students completing their Bronze Duke of Ed award headed off to the Strathbogie Ranges to complete their adventurous journey section of the award. The first group of Silver students we met with the immediate challenge of hiking, setting up camp and cooking in the dark on the first night. The spirit of the group was great and all students took on the challenge well. The next morning was a bit more dreary with us facing a long climb up to the top of Lightning Ridge in rain. The group packed up camp and were ready to go nice and early. We headed up the ridge and spent many hours climbing uphill, occasionally stopping to cross a creek (with some stepping into the mud, to find that they sank above their knees, and others helping each other navigate a different route or cross the creek as they balanced walking across a log.)

After 4 ½ hours of hiking up the hill we were hit with a navigational dilemma. The track was not marked on the map and the tracks we could see did not seem to be heading in the correct direction. A decision was made to follow the track which headed north in the hopes it would turn west. However, after a really steep descent the track headed east and we found ourselves back at one of our creek crossings. Cold, wet and getting late in the day the group decided to attempt crossing Lightning Ridge another time and used our support group to return us to camp for a wet night.

At camp we joined the Bronze students who, along with Ms Meryn Chalmers, had learnt how to pack their packs, set up camp and had completed some navigational hiking activities. Our first task as a group was to get a fire going and then get dinner going before we were all too cold and soaked.

On the Saturday we had lovely weather and enjoyed a short hike to a spot where we all enjoyed some rock climbing and abseiling. This was a bit of a highlight of the day. Catrina Paul was our quickest rock climber with others showing determination and commitment to overcome fear and exhaustion to get up the rock.

On Sunday we enjoyed a lovely 14km hike, being led by the Silver students. It was a challenging day for many and there was plenty of relief when we got into camp, set up tents, collected firewood and built a fire.

On Monday all students were excited for the last day of hiking as they all were nursing tired legs and many other bruises, aches and pains from the weekend’s activities. The hike along the ridge was above the clouds and was beautiful, until we hit our extra steep decent where there was plenty of sliding down the hill into the clouds.

Every student supported every other student on this hike and overall we had a wonderful weekend together in the wilderness. Congratulations to Mia & Tori Oberin, Caitlin and Catrina Paul, Hayden James, Kate Mulcahy, Jess Smith, Isabelle Williams, Bryanna Todd and Ruby Hehir for completing this section of their award.

Year 4 Violin

This semester, Year 4 students have been working in practical groups to learn either violin or a range of percussion instruments and recorder as part of their classroom Music program. On Wednesday, Year 4 groups performed to each other, as a special way to celebrate their learning for this semester. Violin students performed two songs, which showcased their developing technique. Next semester, remaining Year 4 students can look forward to learning violin, with our violin tutor, Mrs Marion Moncrieff.

Youth Leadership Training Day 2018

On Thursday 7 June at 8.50am, 10 Moama Anglican Grammar students left for Kyabram P12 College. The aim of the day was to look at ways to improve the environment within our communities and schools as well as learning to work with people we didn’t know. We were put into teams and participated in interactive games which was lots of fun and allowed us to make new friends.

The first activity was a get to know you activity where we had to answer questions about ourselves and share them with the group we had been placed into. This was a bit of fun and we all had a laugh. Within our school group we had to brainstorm a way to make an improvement within our community or school. We chose our school yard and reducing rubbish and waste. Some of the brainstorming ideas we came up with included a nude food program, reduce plastic, reduce plastic bottles etc. We presented this back to the others schools and it was interesting listening to everyone’s ideas. We finished the day in our mixed groups with a play-doh activity where we had to guess what someone was making and if you got them all right then you got a point. The team with the most points got a packet of pods.

It was a fantastic day and we were very spoilt with some yummy food for morning tea and lunch. I look forward to seeing some of our ideas implemented into the school yard.

By Mackenzie Southern