5/6C News Term 2

Welcome back to Term 2. The first few days of the term have been very busy but we have settled well and have jumped straight back into work mode. This term our Science unit will be on electricity and circuits. This will be a lot of fun with heaps of hands on activities. Our class and Miss Baldwin's class have started a program where all the boys work with Mr Cornish and all of the girls work with Miss Baldwin. This program runs for the first hour of the day. The idea came from current research on the benefits of boys and girls working in their own groups for certain times during the day.

We have been talking about ANZAC Day and the importance of this day to us. We are completing a writing task about sacrifice, history, pride, loyalty and freedom. The class are extremely engaged in this activity and are producing some excellent pieces of work. We have continued our approach to fitness this term and run every morning around the oval. This is very good practise for the cross country which is on next week.

The class all enjoyed their holidays and were very excited to get back to work!! We used Inspiration (computer program) to plan and write a recount of the holidays. It sounded like the students had lots of fun. NAPLAN is also approaching quickly and the students in Year 5 are looking forward to completing these tests. (some of them)

This is going to be a very busy term with the class needing to work very well to keep up with expectations. Even though it will be very busy, there will be plenty of interesting activities to complete.

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We have experienced an enjoyable visit from Mr Michael Coutts-Trotter, the Director General of Education for NSW. Mr Coutts-Trotter was in Narrabri for the annual New England Education Region Principals Conference, which this year was held at The Crossing Theatre.

Whilst at the conference he saw our drum group perform (which was the highlight of the opening ceremony), as well as some other great items by other local schools. He also delivered the keynote address to principals from across all 126 schools in our region.

Together with Mr John Charles, School Education Director (New England West), Mr Coutts-Trotter then had the pleasure of visiting our school, where he was greeted by our school captains and councillors, together with Mrs Annabelle Guest, President of the Narrabri West School Council.

Our Pre School and Kindergarten rooms were then visited and this was an opportunity for him to see high quality programs in operation. In particular he was able to see how Pre School children can easily transition into Kindergarten in the same school. It was quite obvious he enjoyed meeting our students and joining in with their activities. He asked them lots of questions (and they had some for him as well!).

The 5/6C classroom was the next port of call as Mr Coutts-Trotter wanted to ask Mr Cornish about his recent trip to Singapore. He was excited to learn that we are hoping to organise video conferences with a school in Singapore that has 4,000 students!

We are sure Mr Coutts-Trotter and Mr Charles left with a wonderful, impression of our schools students, and also our captains and councillors, who were terrific hosts and guides around our school.

2/3S Rugby Clinic

Today 2/3S students participated in a Rugby Union Clinic. We began with some ball warm ups in pairs. Then we practised passing the ball to each other while running. It was important not to do a forward pass.

Towards the end of the session we played touch football. 2/3S enjoyed playing touch football and all students participated with enthusiasm.

We were all given posters and stickers as a souvenir. The posters told us information about the Waratahs and how to register to play football.

Water Bug Research

On Wednesday the 2nd of December, 5/6C went on an excursion to Narrabri Lake to undertake research on bug life. This term we have been researching lifecycles of various bugs. We contacted Miss McCaffrey from CMA (Catchment Management Authority) in Tamworth. She explained the process for catching and identifying the bugs. It was difficult to catch and identify bugs because of the huge amount of mud in the water. The lake is very low which didn't help our research. Miss McCaffrey explained the best way to get bugs and the reasons why the only bugs we could find were Water Boatmen. The Water Boatmen are very tolerant to difficult conditions and don't have gills, so the mud in the water did not effect their breathing as much as some of the other insects. This was a very good excursion and we learnt a lot. We would like to thank Mrs Davis for organising the excursion and Miss McCaffrey for coming from Tamworth to talk to us.

KD and 5/6C animations

On the last day of Term 3, students from KD joined 5/6C to create some animations. This was great fun for all the students. They worked hard to produce their animations and were very proud of the finished product.

Flower Power Rockets


Crazy animals Shapes

Flowers

1N Holiday Wordle

In our diaries today we wrote stories about the holidays. We made a Wordle with our stories.



If you want to make your own Wordle go to the Wordle website.

http://www.wordle.net/

Human Body Animation by 3/4S

This term 3/4S have been looking at the human body and how it works. We have studied the circulatory, digestive, respiratory and skeletal systems. We have written explanations on all of these and learnt how they interact with each other. To consolidate the information we have learnt, we created a partly animated movie. We all took turns in moving the pieces of our animation and at the end we had over 800 photos. Now sit back, relax and enjoy our movie!