From the student leaders

FareShare Food Drive

Thank you to all the families who donated rice and pasta for the FareShare food drive. Vermont Primary School collected 65kg of food. FareShare is very grateful for all the contributions. This will go toward feeding a lot of hungry people! 

FareShare have awarded Vermont Primary School a certificate of appreciation that will be displayed in the front office. 

Thankyou! 

Emily, 6AS

Leaders Day

On Wednesday all the captains and leaders got the fun opportunity to help teach a class in the school. It all started with many students arriving in their house colours excited for a day of fun crafts and games. For two lessons of the day all students were separated from their normal class and mixed with all different students from their house. They participated in two different Aboriginal based activities during these lessons that filled the room with smiles. The first activity was called making your mark. Each student was provided a hat that they had to cut, colour and paste together. They started off boring and white and ended colourful, bright and unique. This lesson taught everyone about how we all are different and make our marks in different ways. The next lesson was students playing Aboriginal games. Although we couldn’t do them as they traditionally were played, we all still enjoyed playing them. The two games were called Moka Bandi and Wingara. Moka Bandi was a similar game to eye spy. You had to choose an object in the room and then get all the other players to ask you questions about what you were thinking of. The game was traditionally played outdoors and was about nature.

The next game, Wingara, was a bit like Pictionary. One player out of the group had to draw a picture of something on the topic chosen. For example, if the topic was animals then I could draw a fish. Once you have drawn your object, place, animal or person the rest of your group has to make guesses on what they think it is. To help them guess they can ask questions like 'Is it an animal, person, place or thing?' This game was traditionally played with a nut instead of a pencil.

Leaders day was a very special day and  we hope everyone enjoyed it! We hope the year five captains and leaders next year enjoy teaching as much as we did!

Claire 6AS