And so it ends…

Well, that’s it – it’s all over! Our Year 7s have all graduated and are ready for high school, whilst our Year 6s are preparing to start their final year of primary school and become our school leaders. And I am packing up for a fresh start in a new school as ICT Coordinator.
I have [...]

Getting Active in P.E. Week

Last week was P.E. Week – a reminder to encourage our students to be more active. As part of P.E. Week we had decided to take the whole school – over 400 students – to Belair National Park for the day. We were all very excited about the day, even though we knew it would [...]

Week 2

Hi everyone. HereĀ  is the word study list for this week.
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Check out some of the new sites added to our class delicious account. There are some interesting ones for our ancient civilisations study & I’ve also added a some new games.
I’m looking forward to hearing you play at assembly on Friday – try & fit [...]

Term 4

Welcome back to Term 4 – I can hardly believe that we’re into the last term of 2008. This will be a very busy term I think. Tomorrow we are hosting the Triple M breakfast radio show – starting at 7 a.m.! Now there’s a challenge. It promises to be very enjoyable with a barbecue [...]

Time to relax

Thank you to everyone for your great response to Operation Christmas Child – & a big thank you to the group who were always ready to wrap the boxes and fill them! That was a big job – especially the wrapping. I think we managed to fill about 24 boxes in the end, which was [...]

Belated podcast

This podcast should have been posted here a few weeks ago, but due to some technical errors it’s a little late. However, better late than never as they say.
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Marvellous musicians!

Well, the day has at last arrived for our very first class performance to show just what we’ve learned in our 10 weeks of learning to play musical instruments! Our audience consisted of 9 junior primary classes, staff, and some parents. We were all quite nervous – at least I was, so I’m sure that [...]

Farewell to Sam & Bon Voyage to Ivana

Yesterday we sadly had to say goodbye (or au revoir) to our student teacher, Sam. Sam has been working with us for the last 4 weeks and we’ve enjoyed having him in our class. All of the students in LA 2-6 contributed to a shared lunch/farewell party &, even better, managed to keep it a [...]

Operation Christmas Child

The SRC at our school has made a commitment to participate in Operation Christmas Child to help disadvantaged children in South East Asia & the Pacific to share in the joy of receiving gifts and know that othres around the world care about them. We aim to fill as many shoeboxes as we can with [...]

Week 4

Someone will have to help me with more creative titles for these posts!
Although I was unable to be there the word is that everyone played really well during today’s music lesson. Next week will be the final rehearsal before we perform for the Junior Primary classes and parents. I’m looking forward to it as it’s [...]