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Year 2 Excursion 

On the 3rd of June students in year 2 visited 

Nangak Tamboree Wildlife Sanctuary to explore habitats links to our Inquiry unit on places and a study of the animals that live in habitats and how we can conserve our environments.

Please see below photos and writing from students.

Persuasive Writing 5/6

In the 5/6 area, we have been working on learning to write to persuade. 

Over the last week or two, students have been writing speeches on an issue they care deeply about. They presented these speeches to a group of their peers. As these texts were presented verbally, they haven’t been proofread in the same way that a visually published text might be – but they are written from the heart! 

We hope you enjoy them. 

Climate Change Is Getting Worse

By Blair 

Do you want the world to get continuously hotter?  Do you want the air to be polluted so much that you can’t see the sun anymore? Do you want the rivers you live near toxic and disgusting? Or do you want an amazing world of lush green and to be enjoying yourself? 

Pollution and climate change are rising. We have already released more than ten billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere using coal, gas, and oil energy. If we continue polluting the atmosphere, the entire world would become an inhabitable fallout that is boiling hot. Many problems have happened all because of climate change. icecaps will melt and the ocean will rise and animals and people are losing their homes. These were all caused by climate change.

But we can prevent this, if we invest in renewables like solar panels and wind farms and shutdown fossil fuels for good. We can put and end to climate change.

But there are also people who want to continue this hideous climate change and are use as much energy as they can cause people to lose their homes and die. All for the economy.

This behavior is really bad for us and the environment. And it has been like this all the way back in the 1800s. 

There have been more storms and disasters since we polluted more making prices rise, making fresh food and clean water over priced.

This means we need to stop this ruthless act and prevent this.

Climate change needs to stop.

Closing the Gender Pay Gap 

In our society, women are atrociously underpaid, undermined and overworked yet how much is the government really doing to fix it?   What has the Australian government done to fix women's corrupt salaries? This outrage needs to change today, yet we can't afford to leave this responsibility up to our country's government, who have taken too long to fix women's unjust rights. 

Almost a century ago, the women of Australia earnt the right to get a job and earn money instead of being forced to look after their children and their house. Back in the 1930's, that decision was life changing and an incredible privilege. But is it really a privilege if men have had this right centuries before women could? Now, it's 2022, and just having a job is not nearly enough for all the hardworking Australian women who are overworked and underpaid every day. For centuries, there always seems to be a priority over women's rights, but that needs to change.

Women are equally as smart, strong and efficient as men, so why are they paid less? They strive to achieve amazing breakthroughs with their work, yet are barely even acknowledged in our society. Is there even a logical explanation to why women are paid $25,792 less than men yearly, if they're lucky enough to even get the job that they spent years training for. Women are equally as hardworking and dedicated to their job as men, so they're salary deserves to be equal, not biassed by gender. 

Does the government really believe that they've done enough to fix women's rights? Well,  Australia actually has a long way to go, compared to many other countless countries all over the world that are so much more advanced with women's rights. For example, in Iceland, it is illegal to pay a man less than a woman. Sweden, Canada, Denmark, France, Spain and Ireland have equalised women's rights so that they are the exact same as men's. If other countries could make this happen, what makes Australia the exception? The government could Impose a ban on the gender pay gap so easily, yet, they never have. We could have equality the women all over Australia deserve, if the government would follow in the lead of these countries and make our country a fairer place to live. 

The government has never done enough for the hardworking women of our nation, but that needs to change today. We need to step up and take action to make a long-awaited difference that women deserve, and equalise the rights of every Australian. 

BY ALANNAH K

Bushfire Safety by Jasper Mc

I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land that we stand on today, the Wurundjeri people and pay my respects to their leaders, past, present and emerging. I would like to thank them for the amazing work they have done to keep the land as it is.*here we go* Would you like it if raging bushfires burnt your home to a crisp? Would you like it if threatening fire robbed you of your home? Would you like to be left with nothing? This is not a probability, this is a warning. If our own government continues to deny the fact that our country is burning before our eyes, Australia will not thrive for much longer.

Luckily now that we have a new government they will hopefully react to this crisis. They have promised to support everyone affected by bushfires and give them temporary homes. But will it be enough? These fierce, raging bushfires will destroy our country before our own eyes. Bushfires kill. They tear, thrash and burn. No one likes bushfires. They are mass murderers. Usually, they start as small, baby fires and eventually grow into big assassins. It can sometimes take nearly a whole year for firefighters to put out some fires. Not always, but sometimes bushfires are created on purpose and that is not acceptable in my country!

Bushfires have a lot of names. Some that are synonyms, some that are just because of how devastating they are. Bushfires emit smoke. The thing about bushfires is that the actual fires don't kill many people, the smoke does. The smoke invades people's lungs and that causes them to swell up. Bushfires may be deadly but they can sometimes be mesmerizing. The red and orangey glow that the fire emits is very beautiful. That is until it burns your home to the ground and destroys everything you have ever worked for.

The most devastating bushfire that has ever occurred in Australia were the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. It claimed 173 lives and another 414 went to hospital. 450,000 hectares were burnt. And sadly, 1 million animals died from these fires. Us humans aren’t the only reason bushfires start. There is one main point I haven’t told you about. CLIMATE CHANGE! This is a world destroyer. Climate change is heating up our world all because of our selfish actions. We need to change our ways if we want our country along with us humans to survive. Our so-called genius ideas may be great for us, but murderous to our country. Climate change affects 7.9 billion people. Sadly, that’s the whole population. I can’t get over how imperative it is that Australia and its people change their ways.

Climate change is creating bushfires that are tearing our nation apart. The thing about climate change is that there is something we can all do to reduce it. Some small changes of our behavior that we can make consists of picking up any rubbish that we see on the ground and sorting out our recycling from landfill. We can also reuse all of our shopping bags, walk, run, ride or take public transport to get around our local area, travel overseas less, eat more vegetables or infinite edible food resources, throw away less food or save it for a later time, change your homes source of energy to a reliable and solar powered source. One of the big changes you can make could be switching to an electric vehicle. If we all contribute by doing some of these things, it will make our country a greener and safer place.

Climate change affects our bushfires dramatically with its global warming. It’s not very hard to understand. Climate change = global warming. Global warming = higher risk of bushfires. Higher risk of bushfires = more bushfires. More bushfires = more losses, and no one wants death. Especially when sometimes it might not be a stranger that dies. You may think that this is just the government's problem but it’s not. It affects you! So don’t just sit back and relax on the couch stuffing your face with doritos and redbull while watching Kung Fu Panda the second, take some time to think about what else you could be doing to save the world.

We need to act on climate change to reduce bushfires because they tear Australia apart. We all need to take action on this! Because after all, it’s not always a stranger that dies. It could be your friend or family. But worst of all, that person could be you. Thank you for listening. 

Speech Writing by Felix W

Would you prefer to live in a burning planet of ash? Or a lush planet of green with wildlife thriving all around the world? If you prefer option two then we need to stop polluting our planet now. Heat levels are at an all time high and children are being brought up in the worst climate ever. If you vote for us we will stop this and ensure our planet a better future.

Tell me, do you want to live in a world with rising heat levels, polluted air, and rubbish around every corner. Well if we don’t stop this soon it will be like this. And the more people litter and use unrenewable energy it will get worse and worse until the point that the climate will be so bad that to even maintain it will be near impossible. So even going as far as to pick up some trash from our streets will help our planet immensely in the future.

 On top of all this it isn’t even just affecting humans and our planet. Countless numbers of wildlife are dying rapidly due to our actions. Polar bears are losing ground to stand and live on, koalas are losing their homes and numerus other animals are losing their home. And some aren’t even dying due to climate change. More than one million species are at risks of extinction and around 70 billion animals are slaughtered each year for your food. And if the climate gets worse it will be harder to get them back for food and all the other purposes they possess. So next time you’re eating dinner think about all those innocent animals.             

People are suffering and getting put into hospital because of air pollution and around 130,000 people are dying every year due to lung cancer, again due to our actions. So, when your driving your gas car or littering your rappers and scraps, keep in mind that this could be you in the future. And that’s just one form of disease that you can get from air pollution or climate change.   

 So next time someone says to you that climate change isn’t important, acknowledge that it really is. And the more we put it aside it’ll get harder and harder to fix, help and even maintain. We need to stop this now!

National Junior Classic

Some of Australia’s best young junior talents were on display at the National Junior Classic over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. Teams from across Australia descended on Melbourne’s southeast for a huge three days of basketball.     

Here is Khoder’s profile from the Herald Sun.