Super Scientist Term 2

 

Throughout Week 6 & 7 students are required to present an experiment based on a Science concept, as part of our whole school Super Scientist Competition. This presentation should be no longer than 5 (five) minutes in length. The main purpose of the presentation is to explain the science behind what is happening, not just present an amazing experiment. Please click on the picture to find out the details being asked for. Try to link your science experiment to real world applications.

The schedule for students is shown below. It is the students’ responsibility to have everything ready for their equipment on the allocated day. 

Presentation Timetable Week 6

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Shianne		Olivia	Gazal
	Lilly		Merlyn	Skyla
	Zakiya		Nash	Sophie
	Tessa		Tylah	Madhav

 

 Presentation Timetable Week 7

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Alyssa		Thomas	Connor
Nadia		Wesley	Jake
Ayden		Ronron	Layla
Emily		Neve

Drop Everything and Talk 

A major focus for this year, is to help improve our speaking and listening skills. Students are encouraged to develop more details and use good vocabulary when conversing on a topic. The topic in Week Five was “What would you do on your favourite day?” Some of the responses are summarised below.

 Leavers Shirts

The students are very excited to wear their Leavers Shirts which recently arrived. The design for the shirt was chosen back in Year 5 - Congratulations to Neilia for her winning design.

Drop Everything and Talk 

A major focus for this year, is to help improve our speaking and listening skills. Students are encouraged to develop more details and use good vocabulary when conversing on a topic. The topic in Week Four was “What is something you are proud of?” Some of the responses are summarised below.

Literacy Pro update

Congratulations Room 11 on your fabulous reading.  Keep working on lifting our pass rate by making sure you are reading the questions carefully. Don't forget our aim is for everyone to get a certificate this year.

Assembly Room 11, 17 and 25

Congratulations to all students on a very successful assembly. It was great to see Mathematics in the spotlight. Everyone really loved the rap to help learn the order of calculations for different operations (PEMDAS/BIMDAS).

A special congratulations to our merit certificate winners – Nadia, Emily, Sophie and Connor, and well deserved awards for Values to Olivia, Science to Neve and Sports to Madhav.

Merit Certificate Winners (absent Sophie & Connor)

 Literacy Pro update

Congratulations Room 11 on your fabulous reading.  Keep working on lifting our pass rate by making sure you are reading the questions carefully. Don't forget our aim is for everyone to get a certificate this year.

Congratulations are due to Nadia for achieving her Blue Literacy Pro Certificate. Congratulations also to Jake and Neve for achieving their Red Literacy Pro Certificates.

 Drop Everything and Talk 

A major focus for this year is, to help improve our speaking and listening skills. Students are encouraged to develop more details and use good vocabulary when conversing on a topic. The topic in Week Two was “If you could make one rule that everyone had to follow what would it be?” This topic links neatly with our Citizenship and Road Safety work. Some of the responses are summarised below.

Term 2 Student Representatives

Congratulations to the students in Room 11, (Alyssa, Tessa, Thomas, Noah, Merlyn and Ronron) who were appointed as Student Reps. for Term Two. We are looking forward to working with all the Year Sixes in this group. Students have already successfully started their jobs and met with Ms Roberts to ensure they understand their roles and responsibilities and the school expectations.

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Term 1 Fundraiser

Congratulations to the Term One Student Representatives who ran a very successful fundraiser. Students brought in their coins and made a coin trail at the front of school. The money raised is being donated to the appeal for rebuilding Kalbarri which was devastated by a recent cyclone.

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Faction Captains

 Congratulations to Ayden who was voted as Captain for Purple Faction and Ronron who was voted for as Vice-Captain for Orange. Part of Ayden and Ronron’s responsibilities will be to work with the other captains from their Faction to allocate sports equipment and keep the sports shed tidy, as well as, lead the faction.

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 ANZAC Ceremony

In Week One we had our annual Anzac Ceremony at school. The Senior Choir performed beautifully and several students had their poems read out. Congratulations to Neve from our class who was one of the chosen poems. We also observed a minute's silence and listened to our special guest – Leading Seaman Irvine.

The day before the ceremony, Room 11 worked with our buddy class, Room 28, to make a wreath to be laid during the service.

Leading Seaman Irvine talking to Year Sixes

Please click on the picture below to view poems and some letters that have been written by the students that reflect their understanding of the life and conditions for the ANZACs.

 

Welcome Back

Welcome back to Term Two. I  hope everyone had a relaxing holiday and is recharged for the long term ahead. We have lots of interesting activities planned for the term, including Science investigations and Super Scientists. We have started working on the history of World War 1 and 2 and the ANZAC story. Students will need to keep working on their organisation skills to ensure they manage the work and meet deadlines.