Having heaps of fun at camp and exploring liquids and solids

 Written by Deakin Seiter, Miles Balaam-Gunderson, Haname SIbley & Noah Ryan

Photography by Ramy Ramadhan & Simon

This term the grade 3/4s went on camp to Cave Hill Creek for two nights. We got there by bus, it was two hour drive so we stopped at a park for morning tea. When we got to camp, we got introduced to Tim and then unpacked our bags.

Then we started our activities at 3pm. We had six activities and these were archery, rock climbing/abseiling, low ropes, mountain bikes, bush cooking and hut building. The food we had was delicious. For dinner we had lasagne and chicken with vegetables. At each meal, one group had to set up and clean the table.

Even though we were away from our families, camp was exciting and so much fun. And we are so looking forward to going on camp again next year.

In the first half of term two, the grade 3/4s had ten RMIT students come in to visit. RMIT is a university, which teaches people how to be science teachers. They visited us to teach us about solids and liquids. There were three groups; we all did the same activities but at different times. They told us all about molecules and atoms, which are in literally everything. The molecules move fast if it’s hot and if it’s cold they move slower and also come closer to each other.

The first activity was melting ice and you had to think of a fast way to melt the ice in a bag. The second activity was to melt chocolate in a microwave. You had to guess if a big block of chocolate or broken pieces of chocolate would melt faster. The last activity was melting ice cream. You had to guess if the chopped-up ice cream melted faster than a scoop of ice cream. We really liked learning about solids and liquids and really hope that the RMIT students come back again next year.

      

Remembering the ANZACs and Playing Interschool Sports

Written by Muhammad Ali & Samuel de los Santos-Myles

Photgraphy by Ahmed Yehia & Elham Ali

This term all of the Grade 3/4s have started learning about the ANZACs. ANZAC means Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and they first fought in World War I.

We’ve done lots of different activities where the Grade 3/4s had to split up into groups. The groups had names like Diggers, Poppies, Rosemary and Soldiers. 

We did lots of activities like making an ANZAC Day footy clash poster so that people could come and see the ANZAC Day game. We also made poppies for the people who went to World War I and then we made three wreaths which we put downstairs next to the Wall of Remembrance. The Principal, Mr Williams, also came to show us about when he went to Gallipoli and told us about how hard they fought. Simon read us his great grandad’s diary that he wrote in World War I too.

It was really interesting and exciting and we all learnt how hard it was back then and how important it is to remember all of the ANZACs.

As you all know the senior school plays inter school sports. In winter these are AFL, soccer and netball. 

At the end of last term we did try outs and the first few weeks have just been training. On Friday we played our first game against Pascoe Vale Primary. The boys soccer won 6-1, the girls soccer lost 2-1, the AFL lost by three goals, the girls netball won 6-0 and finally the mixed netball won 10-0.

These are good results considering we have so many grade 3/4s in all of our teams and the other schools have only grade 5/6s. There are four more games this season and we all wish the best of luck to all of our teams and hope everyone has fun and enjoys the games.