Jul 23
Miss B’s trip to Lennox Bridge
Last term 3J learnt about Lennox Bridge, Australia’s second oldest arch bridge and the oldest arch bridge on the Australian mainland. Miss B visited in the holidays!
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Aug 24
Story of a River
This term 5/6J participated in a simulation story acting out how a river gets polluted by different members of the community! We started with a clean fish bowl of water that represented our river. As the story unfolded each 5/6J member came and tipped a pollutant into our river. By the end of the…
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Feb 28
Leap Day
Today, 29th February is leap day, the day we add to our leap year every four years. Leap Years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.24 days to circle once around the Sun. If we didn’t add a day on February…
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Jun 5
Project Fever!
At the moment 5/6J students are working on a in class/at home project on the countries of South East Asia. The project is due in the last week of term and students are encouraged to work on things at home! To see the details of the project click here. If you need any help or…
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Apr 14
Holiday Task – Name our Mascot!
Hey 5/6J Kids and our International Visitors! Meet our new mascot. He’s a Proboscis monkey. The proboscis monkey is found only on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.It gets its name from its large, fleshy nose. You’ll be learning more about the Proboscis monkey this term and the region that they are found: SOUTH…
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Mar 12
Life on the Gold Fields
We have been reading a lot about what it was like to live on the Gold Fields for the diggers, the women, the children, the Chinese and the policemen. It sounds like the food wasn’t very pleasant and you would have been very dirty! Though we all agreed that finding a large nugget of gold…
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Jul 21
Welcome Back to Term 3!
And we’re off with a bang! What a big term ahead for Miss B and the boys. Its very exciting. and it happens once in a blue moon, because this term we are learning about… GOVERNMENT! So what’s exciting? In the middle of our learning we have a FEDERAL ELECTION! The chances of a federal…
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