Year 5/6

In English we continue to look at historical events and significant people in Australia's history. We learnt about Adam Goodes and Ernie Dingo this week, two very current iconic Australian's and what they do to promote growth in our country. Here is some writing from the students about what they learnt.

Talia Price

Ernest Ashley Dingo known to most people as Ernie Dingo. He was born on 31st of July 1956 in Western Australia at Bullardo Station. He is a Yamatji man. In the early 1980’s Ernie started his acting career. He hosted many different TV shows and starred in many movies. Some of the Australian movies are ‘Crocodile Dundee 2' and 'Dead Heart’. Some of the TV shows are ‘The Great Outdoors’ for sixteen years and he starred in several blockbusters. Ernie won numerous acting awards. He was made a member of the Order of Australia in Recognition in 1990.

Mae Northam

Adam Goodes was born on the 8th of January 1980 in Wallaroo South Australia. He was a proud Adnyamathanha man. Goodes began playing AFL when he moved to Victoria. He started playing Australia Football League at the age of 18. A year later 1999, he made a debut for the Sydney Swans. Adam Goodes was awarded the leagues rising Stare award in 2003 and 2016. He won two AFL premiership games with the Sydney Swans in 2005 and 2012. In 2014 Adam Goodes was named Australian of the year. He retired from the game in 2015. 

During Maths we have begun our topic of angles. It has been fun learning that we must be as precise as possible measuring the degrees of an angle. There are many types of angles too! Let the students' work teach you of these.

During our Humanities time we are studying Economics and are conducting a role play, whereby we model off society to learn about consumers, financial maths, citizenship, preferential voting, country symbols and so much more. Students have named our country Berklandia and are in the process of developing our flag.