The theme for Mrs Moon’s Year 4 class assembly last Friday 16 June was 'World Explorers'. The Year 4 students have been ‘exploring’ this theme across History, English and Technology & Enterprise during this term.
The assembly began with a brief introduction to the 'Age of Exploration', during the fifteenth to seventeenth century, and the influences that these journeys had on the world.
The Year 5 and 6 students represented our College at the South West Primary Schools Association (SWPSA) Winter Sports Carnival on Thursday 8 June, at Hay Park in Bunbury. Students chose to participate in hockey, netball, football or soccer in teams against other schools, on what turned out to be a gorgeous winter’s day with sunny blue skies.
Occasional showers did not dampen student spirits at the Primary campus Inter-House Athletics Carnival on the College oval Thursday 18 May. Parents were kept warm and fed with the Yahava coffee van and an endless supply of delicious treats from the P&F cake stall.
“It’s a story about perseverance. It’s a story about training. It’s a story about cows smacking into meteorites and hot air balloons, and sand dunes.”
All of our Primary classes enjoyed reading The Cow Tripped over the Moon last Wednesday for the National Simultaneous Story-time.
A number of local authors and illustrators are visiting the Primary campus on Friday 24 March to run workshops as part of our Between the Lines Literature Festival in association with Dymocks. Students from a number of other schools in the area will also join in many of the sessions.
The Olympic Spirit has been a key motivator this week on the Primary campus, inspiring students to learn not just in sports, but also in History, Geography, Art, Literacy and Maths classes.
Last Friday’s Assembly was co-ordinated by Mr Thomson’s Year 3 class, who have been looking at our College value of Inclusion. They have been listening to ‘dreamtime’ stories as they learn about Aboriginal culture in their recent History lessons. Students showed some of their own versions of traditional dot paintings by various Indigenous artists.
Sixteen Pre Primary students have graduated from the ELK Room’s MiniLit Program for Semester One. The students have thoroughly enjoyed fun based daily literacy sessions to enhance their knowledge, and have taken the time to share their experiences with their class peers.
On Thursday our Primary Cross Country stars travelled to Bunbury to compete in the SWSPA Cross Country Carnival at Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School. The students had been attending before school training sessions for five weeks leading up to the day, with many continuing through the holiday break.
Our primary students will be taking part in a 'Read to Rio' Book Challenge, to coincide with the Olympic Games.
The challenge is to read as many books as you can from the school library over the two weeks beginning Monday 8 August (weeks 4 and 5). The library is open before and after school (8:00am – 3:45pm) and during lunchtimes for students to swap books, and a tally will be kept of the number of books that each student reads.