Student Reports

Year 6H STEAM Experiment

Year 6H completed a STEAM challenge last week with the focus of Designing an earthquake proof house using only toothpicks and marshmallows.

We had to build our houses in teams and make sure it would withstand an 'earthquake' - Miss Hart and Miss Dhar (6H's Pre-Service Teacher) shaking the container and tapping it at the bottom. 

We recorded our findings on our iPads and discussed any further questions we had.

Wish us luck as we start to build our community!

VINCENT VAN GOGH EXHIBITION

'Play Recount'  by Rosie and Roxy, 2017 Visual Art Leaders

 

We went to see the Van Gogh exhibition!

Yeah!

It was full of colour and beautiful doors…

For the last time, Roxy! We're not putting in that door!

We’ll see about that…

Anyway, to get to the venue (NGV) we had to catch a tram! We all had our Mykis at hand and were ready to tap on!

When we got there, we ate our snack and put our bags in the cloakroom. We were joined by the year fives who, unfortunately, had to walk there.

We got into our groups, and we each got an activity booklet. We had to look for different Van Gogh paintings and write when they were painted, the name of the painting and what season it belong to.

To get to Van Gogh, we had to go through another room with a bunch of statues. 

And then we lined up to get into Van Gogh!

The Video: Oh, a you mean the one about his life and how he was really depressed?

Interesting way of putting it, but that's the one. Then we saw some Japanese prints!

Oh, those ones! 

So majestic.

The, after a treacherous journey including beautiful doors, statues and myki cards…

It only took us half an hour, Roxy!

Shh, I'm getting to the good part! We found the massive word, ‘AUTUMN’!

It was VERY busy. Everyone charged in and started looking for the paintings. But I was looking at the paintings. Studying their beauty.

Calm down, we’ve still got a bit to go and you weren’t the only one thinking they were cool.

Enough about that! We found some cool paintings in Autumn, including ‘Shepard and his Flock’ and ‘Still Life with Apples and Pumpkins’.

It was hard to put the names on our sheets.

Still Life with Apples and Pumpkins

Then we went to Winter!

It wasn't as chilly as I expected!

Stop with the puns Roxy!... #stoproxyspuns2017

Some paintings included ‘Winter Life is Well’ and Vase with Honesty’.

Winter Life is Well

Next we got to Spring. There were so many beautiful paintings but sadly we have no pictures.

Regrets. I was too busy looking at the paintings to take photos!

Finally we got to Summer, which included my favourite painting, ‘Wheatfield with Cypress’. So beautiful... Picture time!

Then our Van Gogh adventure was over!

We went to Queen Victoria Gardens eat lunch. Then we boarded the tram and went back to school!

 

It was so much fun, don't you think, Roxy?

Yes, it was so good! The paintings were amazing and everything was majestic! Thank-you Mrs Orr!

That's it for the Van Gogh blog!

Year 2 News!

In Year 2 we have been doing persuasive writing. We made paper bag animals and had to write a persuasive piece to convince the zoo keepers that our animals should be allowed to stay in the zoo.

 

Why I think my piranha should be allowed in the zoo

Mr and Mrs Zookeeper, I think my piranha should be allowed to be in your zoo because they are interesting to look at.

 

Firstly, they are colourful to look at. Their sharp teeth are very interesting to look at.

 

Secondly, the children and families would want to feed them. When you feed them they get into a big group and move around fast to tear it up.

 

Finally, they can show their gills to the customers.

 

To sum up, I think my piranha will be fantastic in your zoo because they are very fierce to look at.

By Luca B

 

Why I think my cat should be allowed in the zoo

Mr and Mrs Zookeeper, I think my cat should be allowed to be in your zoo.

 

Firstly, I think my cat should be allowed in your zoo because they’re fun to play with. Children can roll cotton for them.

 

Secondly, I think my cat should be allowed in your zoo because they are colourful. They can be all sorts of colours: grey, white, ginger and black.

 

Finally, I think my cat should be allowed in your zoo because they can have food and rest. They are so cute when they rest.

 

To sum up, I think cats should be allowed at the zoo because they are cute and fluffy.

By Sienna K

Cross Country

It was the 19th of May and we were on our to way to Dendy Cross Country. We went on the bus and everyone was chatting and people were really nervous about going to represent our school in Cross Country. When we got out of the bus we felt the wind in our faces and when we touched the grass it felt thick and wet. We saw the big hills and the dirty path we had to run on and we knew this was going to be a hard race.

 

The first race was the 9-10 girls and everyone was jumping around and people’s hearts were pounding as they got ready for the race. Then a high pitched noise went and everyone knew it was the whistle and off they went. When they were about halfway through the race the announcer called the 9-10 boys to the starting line and you could see on everyone’s faces that they were nervous.

 

All the 9-10 boys went up to the starting line and when all the boys had got there they blew the whistle again and off we went. The first thing you had to get over was a huge and steep hill. That hill slowed some people down, then everyone was following a thin dirt track that ran through the middle of the green grass. It then came to a tight turn as we were jogging. We could hear the cheers in the background behind us. Lots of people were falling over because of the slippery track that we were jogging on. When we could see the finish line we gave it all we had. The Galilee students were cheering all of us on.

 

Shortly after that, the 11 girls came to race and then the 11 boys went off to race. Both of the 11 boys and girls did very well. After both of the 11 boys and girls, the 12-13 girls went to the starting line to race. They did very well and then it was the last race of the day! The 12-13 boys went to the starting line and then they started to run. Near the end they were sprinting and they were very happy about completing the hard race.

 

Then it was presentation time and everyone was listening to where their school came. There was 10 schools competing at the Dendy Cross Country race and we were listening very carefully to what the results were. First they did the percentage, and our school had a percentage of 21 and we came 4th. Then they did the overall scores and we came 4th again with 30 points. We were all very proud of attending the Dendy Cross Country and  everyone tried their best.

 

 

Alex C. and Jordan Z. 4G