News from MLC

Over the term, a group of students have been working with Geraldine Nicholas in the extension program on a passion project. This gives the students an opportunity to research something that they have an interest in, something they would like to learn more about. This gives them the freedom to direct their own learning through an Inquiry approach. The children presented their hard work to the students in MLC recently. The work that went into the project was very impressive. 

We loved learning about all the different topics the students chose. We could tell just how passionate the children were about these topics.

As we came towards the end of Term 4 and the end of 2021, it was time to choose our leaders for next year. Before the voting could be completed, the children who wanted to be nominated for these leadership positions needed to write a speech, persuading their peers why they deserved to be elected. The children worked very hard on their speeches and the teachers were very impressed with how well all the children spoke. After the speeches, the children voted for who they wanted to lead them in 2022. 

Congratulations to all the students who presented their speeches. A special congratulations to those who were elected as Captains for 2022: 

School Captains: Nikki and Darren; 

Shorton House Captain: Celeste; 

O’Shea House Captains: Mackenzie and Harry; 

Pietzsch House Captains: Leo and Jason; 

Green Force Captains: Aiden, Allison and Ava.

This week, the children have been learning about volume in Maths. Volume is the amount of space an object takes up. The students learned how to find the volume of formal shapes such as cubes and rectangular prisms. 

We also used Linking Cubes to create shapes and find the volume of those. The Linking Cubes are great for creating different 3D shapes. Each cube is 1cm cubed, thus, we know that the volume of the shape is going to be the amount of cubes used to make the shape. For example, a shape made with 48 Linking Cubes will have a volume of 48cm cubed.

Kind regards

Mr Tom Brophy

MLC Classroom Teacher