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Week 9 - Home Learning
Virtual Excursions
With opportunities for travel restricted and school excursions cancelled, many venues are offering some great virtual trips that children can take all across the world. Here are some of the best:
The Louvre Kids: A massive bank of activities, stories and virtual tours from one of the most famous museums in the world.
San Diego Zoo:24/7 access to live streams of animal enclosures, scheduled information sessions and creative activities as well. https://kids.sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/index.php/
The Great Barrier Reef: Explore the Great Barrier Reef using Google Street View.
https://greatbarrierreef.com.au/explore-the-great-barrier-reef-with-google/
Life Education and Healthy Harold have joined forces with R U OK? – to ask Australian children, “Are they really ok?”
We know mental ill heath often starts at a young age. Half of all the mental health conditions will have presented by age 14.
As a community, lets get in front of this and empower students to check in with each other and themselves. These are the important building blocks to develop resilience!
We invite your school to participate in R U OK? Day by utilising these free resources.
Life Education and Healthy Harold have prepared a video lesson suitable for primary school children of all ages. It’s a wonderful opportunity for students to see a familiar face when times are tough.
https://lifeeducationaustralia.cmail20.com/t/j-l-fkhlhit-ikyduyikhr-y/
Join us for Electricity Safety Week at Home: 6-10 September 2021
Here are three ways your students can participate from home:
ACTIVITY 1 - Watch our electricity safety video series on YouTube
Students can learn some very important electricity safety messages by watching these videos in our YouTube series:
- What is electricity? (1min 30 seconds)
- Keeping safe (1 min 46 seconds)
- Electricity poles and powerlines (1 min 30 seconds)
- Staying away from electrical substations (1 min 15 seconds)
- Electricity and water don't mix (1 min 20 seconds)
- Metal is a conductor (1 min 50 seconds)
- What to do in an electrical emergency (1 min 20 seconds)
ACTIVITY 2 - Enter our Be a Safety Star student competition!
Win $1,000 for your school P&C association and individual STEM prizes for student winners and runners up. Entry deadline has been extended to 5 November 2021. For more information and terms and conditions, visit our website here.
Years K-3 - Poster competition Two category winners (K-1 & Y2-3) will be chosen based on the best illustration of one or more electricity safety messages. Follow these simple steps to enter.
- Download the poster design template here - make sure name, school, suburb, teacher name and year is included at the bottom of each poster
- Submit entries to postercomp@essentialenergy.com.au
Years 4-6 - *NEW* Superhero comic strip competitionOne winner will be chosen based on the best illustration of a superhero staying safe around electricity, with one or more electricity safety messages included.
- Download the comic strip design template here - make sure name, school, suburb, teacher name and year is included on the top right-hand corner
- Submit entries online here.
ACTIVITY 3 - Try some fun activities
We have created some fun activities that students can do at home. These are available on our website or can be downloaded here:
Feel free to share your feedback on these resources, or if students have any ideas on other fun activities they might like to do!
If you are delivering Electricity Safety Week 2021 activities at school for children of essential workers, we encourage you to use the classroom activities provided in your free resource pack or visit our website. We also encourage you to use the resources provided in Term 4 or another time that suits your school (e.g. Stage 3 Science & Technology Electricity Unit)
Contacting Your Child's Teacher
Teachers welcome contact from parents, if you would like to talk with staff please either contact the class teacher by phoning the school – 67772328 or email the school on spwadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au
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