National Simuntaneous Reading Day

Wednesday, May 22, provided the opportunity for a fun activity for the Junior School and Middle School students to share. At 11.00am, over a million Primary school students from across Australia all joined together to read the delightful picture story book, “Alpacas With Maracas” (by Matt Cosgrove). At Cobram AGS, our Junior School students were entertained by the Yr 8 Drama class, who enacted a colourful and noisy rendition of the story.

It was a great opportunity for our older students to share the joys of reading with our younger students. From the happy responses of the audience and the performers, it was obvious that everyone enjoyed themselves as the alpacas shook their maracas and the yaks played their sax.

Mr Brad Downie

Director of Studies

Australia's Biggest Morning Tea

Monday, May 20, saw Cobram Anglican Grammar School host our 'Australia's Biggest Morning Tea' event in the PAC. This year we preceded the feast with a Whole School assembly and invited parents and guardians to stay on and explore the school for Education Week, before joining the student body once again to eat and help raise money for the Cancer Council. Our students brought along some fantastic treats to share and the school would like to send a big thank you to all who contributed to making it such a delicious spread! Unlike previous years the students accessed the food in house groups with the house raising the most money receiving extra points to add to their end of year total. Stanyer House came out on top with the school raising over $300 in support of the Cancer Council.

Mr Ash Kennedy

Head of Senior School

Agriculture in Year 5/6

In 5/6 Agriculture, we have been busy little farmers. Our vegetables are growing and we are excited to cook with them hopefully at the end of the term. We have sowed a few crop trials; wheat, canola and oats so we are praying for rain. Our compost is going well, we thank all the classes for contributing and reducing the amount of fruit and vegetable scraps that would otherwise go to landfill. Our gardens are going to love it.

We have had a 1/2W and and 3/4L come down for a tour of our gardens and taking part in a few activities. We had lots of fun showing off our gardens to the Junior School.

We are going to have a few sessions in the kitchen over the next few weeks, some more taste testing and baking some treats to keep ourselves fueled for gardening.

Ms Hannah Forrest

Academic Staff

Student Reflections:

On 2/4/19 we planted our sugar snap peas which was the first vegetable we planted this year.

On 6/5/19 we checked our vegetables for the first time. The weather was sunny/cloudy, the temperature was 18 degrees and the peas were 14.3cm-15.2cm tall. Over the week we had about 40ml of rain. On that day we tasted radish and I didn’t like it.

On 13/5/19 we got about 4.5ml of rain on the weekend and the temperature was 16 degrees. The peas were growing very slowly and our second vegetable hasn’t sprouted yet which Is cauliflower.

On 20/5/19 we got about 1ml of rain and the temperature was 21 degrees. Our vegetables grew about 5cm. We also tasted popcorn on a cob I liked it, but it had no flavour.

Hunter Iskov

5/6L

In Agriculture me and my group, Savannah K, Takoda, and Cyrus, have planted purple carrots and snow peas. We had to weed the garden to make it ready and the rain made the garden soil wet so it was easy to pull out the weeds.

The 5/6s are going to grow some crops. We are going to grow wheat, canola and oats. We had to put the rubber edging in a circle and hold it in place with some spikes that we had to hammer in. Some students had to loosen the soil in the circle and lightly water it. Farmers don’t get to water their soil, they have to wait for the rain to come.

Ethan Greatorex

5/6L

Education Week Dress Up

To finish Education Week, Cobram AGS students dressed as the career they aspire to be.

Food and Fibre - Careers Day Out

On Friday, May 24, a group of Senior School students visited the largest Food and Fibre careers event in Victoria. Students travelled to Dookie and took part in three workshops over the day as well as listening to special guest speaker, Aimee Snowden. Students were able to choose from the following workshops; Genes, Sheep and Wool, Drones, Dairy Robotics, Food Science, Agronomy, Poultry, Veterinary Technology, Water Conservation, Land Management, Viticulture, Beef, Hydroponics, Insect Farming, Grain, Forestry, Equine, Transport, Bees, Cotton, Agri-tourism, Agribusiness and Future Farming. Students also had the opportunity to participate in the Ag School challenge and came 4th on the day. It was a fantastic day showcasing a variety of careers in agriculture and the opportunities available in the future.

Mrs Maggie Booth

Careers Coordinator

Sorry Day

National Sorry Day has been held on 26 May each year since 1998, to acknowledge and recognise members of the Stolen Generations. This day gives people the chance to come together and share the steps towards healing for the Stolen Generations, their families and communities. Stolen generations refer to Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.

Student Reflections:

National Sorry Day is recognised on May 26 every year. This year our school held a sorry day assembly where our school leaders talked about the horrors and struggles that Indigenous people endured throughout European colonization and the stolen generation. To me at least, it really hit me in the feels and I truly realised what horror they had to see and go through. I cannot imagine my children being taken away from my care and put into disgusting ‘care homes’ for me to never see them again. So to all the Indigenous people reading this… I’m sorry this happened to you.

Connor Tarrant

5/6P

Sorry Day is very touching when you think about it. These past events need to be remembered because it is not something we can just brush off our shoulders. I have never really thought about how much it hurt the Indigenous people until the slideshow and fantastic speeches were presented. When I look at this, I try to put myself in the parents’ and childrens shoes. I advise you to do the same and see what it is like for Indigenous people. What would you be thinking or doing, if you are a parent and your children were stolen? By the government! No one could have helped you because the government did it, no one has more power than the government.

Mostafa Al Kundi

5/6P

A rap written and performed by indigenous student, River Loizou, at the Sorry Day assembly.

https://youtu.be/VuQRQkwo_o4

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