5-6-7 Excursion to the Birdwood Motor Museum

5-6-7 Excursion to the Birdwood Motor Museum

Written by the Year 5/6/7s in Room 19-1 On Tuesday 22nd of September three classes from the Upper Primary block went to the Birdwood Motor Museum. The purpose of the visit was to educate us about ideas for our business and economics unit. We had to be at school by...
Health in Action

Health in Action

by Mrs McMillan’s Year 3/4 Class For many students across the school when asked about their favourite subject area they will state PE-Physical Education. Firstly, I would like to remind you that PE is not a standalone curriculum area. It forms part of the...
Vex IQ Robots

Vex IQ Robots

by Jo Eldridge – Year 6/7 Teacher Along with Rachel Gregory, I am involved in a project with other schools in our partnership called the Continuity of Learning. From this, we were given 3 Vex IQ robots for our classes to work with. Every student in both classes...
Term 3 Health with Years 1/2/3

Term 3 Health with Years 1/2/3

by Jan Davoren One of this term’s main areas is looking at what an advertisement is and finding health messages and slogans. Finding advertisements in print was tricky, even in brochures the difference between a recipe and an ad wasn’t obvious to students.  Many...
Welcome to our shared classroom

Welcome to our shared classroom

For this week’s blog we will be exploring Miss Emily and Mrs Gwatking’s literacy rotations through a little video we put together. We have learnt many new skills through our shared classroom and it has provided us with many new and wonderful...
Students Experimenting with Light

Students Experimenting with Light

Year five students in Mrs Sander’s class and Ms Parkes’ class have been learning about light as part of their physical science lessons on Wednesday afternoons. In Week 7 we investigated how refraction works through two experiments. The first experiment involved...