OLF Maths Olympiad 2020

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the intra-school competition. For 2020, the Olympiads became intra-school competitions in which an individual student’s performance was only measured against other students from within their own school.Please find photographs below from our school award ceremony.

Year 6 Newman Mathematics Students

(Awards- Cloe, Benjamin, Dara, Sophie.R & Matisse)

Year 5 Newman Mathematics

(Awards- Lachlan, Axel, Addison, Joseph & Felix)

Year 4 Newman Mathematics

(Awards- Ashley, Olivia, Thomas, Austin & Maya)

The Land Newspaper - Felix - Year 5 Newman English

Congratulations to Felix in Year 5. Littlescribe (online literacy platform) used by Newman English students selected two of Felix’s poems to be published in The Land. Felix’s poems were inspired by Kirli Saunders, a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning international writer of poetry, plays and picture books. Felix creatively used poetic forms to write about our land and culture.

Poem 1

The thunder booms above

Darkness looms ahead

Hooves clop on the cobbled road

Will I make it?

Rain pelts the ground

Hail the size of bowling balls

Water rushes behind me

Will I make it?

Lightning strikes the ground

Trees go up in flames

Wind rushing past my ears

Will I make it?

Houses ripped out of there stables

Trees go flying

My horse speeds up

Will I Make it?

Earth ripped up behind me

Bodies flung like pebbles

Pebbles fly as well

Will I make it?

Suddenly chaos leaves the world

Pebbles sink into the ground

Houses fall like leaves

I made it

Poem 2

Bright orange leaves fall

Glowing like fire

Everything for this world

That is my desire

Splash splash splash

As the pebbles skim

The chances of keeping this world

Are quite slim

The glaciers melt

The water rises

Trees leave the earth

For farmland in different sizes

The world is slowly dying

And lives are being lost

The temperatures are rising

That is the cost

GERRIC Summer Student Programs are on!

The GERRIC for Gifted Students program is offered to gifted and talented students (generally students who are capable of performing in the top 10% of their age-peers) in years 3-10 at Australian primary, middle or secondary school. This is a school holiday program that expands the minds of bright, inquisitive individuals looking for an intellectual challenge that is more demanding and more fun than they may sometimes experience at school.

The program runs for three days and gives students the opportunity to work on a small project.

Please find information for the courses that will be held from Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 January, 2021 GERRIC Summer Courses.

Mrs Jo Ford

Newman Coordinator

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