Primary News
Year Six – Day Camps Two & Three
Over the last few weeks of this term our Year Six Adventurers have been busy learning about themselves, each other and our world.
Our second day camp was a visit to Healesville Sanctuary to learn about the importance of preserving our world and the living things within it. We learned about animal and land conservation, along with the integral role we play in advocating for our world through action, voice and choice. Our theme for the day – using our voices to make a change – inspired us to recognise that our actions and growth mindsets can make positive changes to our world.
From Healesville, our Year six adventures took to the tree tops on a high ropes course adventure, showcasing their amazing bravery and positive ‘can do’ attitude by conquering a variety of high rope challenges. Every single student in their own way achieved success and played an integral role in helping their peers experience victory. Their words of encouragement, support and understanding certainly epitomised our school values. Well done team!
Our day three camp was also quite busy but very exciting. Over the course of this day, we had our Year Six students learn about the importance of commemoration after visiting the Shrine of Remembrance. We were told about the architectural symbolic significance behind the creation of the Shrine and were inspired by people’s stories of the past that has enabled us to experience the freedoms we have today.
After the Shrine, we travelled to the Queen Victoria Market for lunch and were inspired by the many market stalls. We loved wondering around looking at the many different wares that were being sold. We could have easily spent hours there. It was really very interesting.
Our next stop was to the Immigration Museum where many Victorian stories were retold to us. We were in awe of the hardships people endured and continue to endure, when resettling in new places. We are deeply appreciative and moved by the sacrifices people faced to settle in Victoria, and are grateful for their perseverance as they have given us the opportunity to live in this wonderful culturally diverse state.
Our last stop was the Old Melbourne Gaol. Continuing on with the theme of the day – preserving the stories of the past to inform our present and future – we were enthralled by the history of the place, learning that it was in fact a silent gaol. We were told stories about how people came to be imprisoned, and were astonished to learn that babies were jailed for being neglected. It was eerily exciting to move throughout the cells and see the types of conditions prisoners of the late 1800’s to early 1900’s endured.
A big shout out to all of our Year Six learners who were amazing ambassadors for our college. Well done Year Six students!
We look forward to the next two day camps next term.
Melissa Harford
Year 6 Homeroom Teacher
Primary Choir Concert
On Thursday 8th September, the primary school came together for an afternoon choir concert. Under the direction of Ms Raechen Dan, who runs our choir program, the students presented a range of songs to an enthusiastic audience of family, friends and members of the Lakeside community. And, as you can tell by the photos, it was a full house!
Thank you to Ms Dan for arranging the concert and getting our students prepared in time. We would also like to thank our lovely audience for attending and the executive team at Lakeside College for their assistance putting this together!
Mr. John Glover
Music Coordinator
Premier’s Reading Challenge
A huge congratulations to all our Primary School readers who participated in and completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge. This year all primary school students undertook the challenge of reading a set number of assigned books within Term 3, and we are very proud to share that every single reader achieved success.
The Premier’s Reading Challenge is set each year by the Premier, The Honourable Daniel Andrews, and requires students to showcase their reading skills by reading a number of books. In our case, all books were read in the classroom. Many of these books were shared reading texts by our teachers, promoting a deep love of literature.
Since its beginnings in 2005, over 3.5 million Victorian students have read in excess of 54 million books. Lakeside readers will be awarded their special certificates as soon as they arrive from our Premier. Well done to all Lakeside Primary literature enthusiasts!
A special mention must go to Mrs Deb Mibus and Mr Mitch Mibus for all of their hard work in helping us track and document all of our reading logs. Thank you so much for helping us achieve success!
Story Quest – Dreaming with Eyes Open Performance by Perform Education
To celebrate our love of literature and the celebrations of Book Week, Primary students hosted the Story Quest performers on Tuesday the 30th of August. This one-hour show took us all on a journey, with friends Marley and Ben guiding us through story inspired dreams while awake. Along the way Marley was faced with many obstacles, however fortunately for her, she was aided by Lakeside’s growth minded primary students, allowing her to finally reach a place where dreams do come true!
Book Week Incursion – Alex Miles
As part of our Book Week activities on Tuesday 23rd of August, the Year 3-6 students participated in an engaging presentation from the popular Author, Alex Miles! (Alex has written some of the ‘Zac Power – Spy Camp’ books, as well as her own ‘Olive Black’ series and the new ‘GirlGeek’ novels).
Alex spoke to us about the process of writing a book and coming up with ideas, and many of the obstacles that authors must tackle, before getting the finished product of a novel completed! Some of the Year 5 student’s highlights included a piece of information she mentioned concerning the editing process of one of Alex’s books. The Year 5s were also intrigued to hear that during editing the draft of one of her novels, Alex received the manuscript back from the editor with around 170 different suggested changes! We reflected how this supports the idea in writing, “When you think you’re done, you’ve only just begun”. During this time, Alex’s encouragement was to start writing, and be persistent, and that anyone can be a writer, even if you may not be the ‘best speller’!
One of my highlights was witnessing how many insightful questions the Year 3-6 students asked about the writing process!
Daniel Woolfe
Year 5 Homeroom Teacher
Book Week Parade
Primary District Athletics
On Thursday the 25th of August, a number of students represented the College at the Officer District Athletics Carnival. The results are as follows:
Mitchell Y – 3rd Long Jump, 6th 100m
Autumn D – 8th Shot Put
Hayley C – 12th Long Jump, 6th Triple Jump, 6th 100m
Jamie G – 4th Discus, 5th Long Jump
Walter J – 9th Shot Put
Maya O – 2nd Shot Put, 5th 200m
Jaiden J – 12th Discus
Thomas D – 7th 100m
Piper M – 2nd 100m
Maddison R – 1st 100m, 1st 200m, 1st Long Jump
Amelda O– 2nd 100m
Riley B – 6th 100m, 4th Shot Put, 5th 200m
Rai B – 5th 100m
Nyayang N – 6th 100m
Ben P – 1st 100m, 1st 200m
Tristan R – 7th 100m
Lucas R – 6th 100m
Emma M – 9th Long Jump, 3rd Triple Jump, 14th Discus
Indi C – 6th Discus,
Barnaby – 1st 200m, 1st Long Jump
Samuel H – 7th Discus
Congratulations to all involved, everyone represented themselves and the college with great pride.
Ben Hillard
Physical Education Teacher
Primary Footy Day
On Monday the 12th of September, our primary students were invited to dress in their favourite footy team colours and participate in a clinic run by AFL Victoria. There was also a number of lunchtime activities where students could show off the skills they had learnt. Overall, despite the cold and wet weather, it was fantastic to see everyone having a great time.
Thank you to everyone that was involved!