Robotics Club Antics

Check out our maze construction with tunnels, ramps, doors and dead ends










We also explored the first video game called Pong and programmed our Spheros to play against each other. 












We've painted with our Spheros and built a shoe box maze.

Hot Chocolate Success!

Another fun and exciting event was held by Year 6 today.  Our final Hot Chocolate fundraiser with all the money going to Bear Cottage.  The students were extremely helpful and so excited to serve the rest of the school.  With a last minute venue change due to the weather, we served each year group in the undercroft in front of the canteen. 

We are so grateful for the help of our fabulous parents in the successful running of today's event.  Special mention to Cameron Johnston, Nick Kelly, Hugh Coates, Bonnie Wiles and Claire Eden for their limitless enthusiasm and patience.  Much appreciated!

We have yet to tally the final takings for the day that will all be donated to Bear Cottage.  So watch this space and we will let you know once the final count is complete and the float deducted.

Once again - well done everyone!

Helping Year 5 In Their Learning...

A message from Mr Scott and Year 5...

During Maths last week Year 5 collaborated to make a survey about sustainability. We have been learning about how to make a good survey which collects data that will give us something useful to analyse.

If you have time Year 5 would love you to fill in the survey. It should only take a few minutes.

Thanks and regards,

Mr Scott and Year 5

https://goo.gl/forms/66P8iBXobPVnpcoQ2

Hot Chocolate Day This Thursday!

Year 6 has their second last fundraising event this week on Thursday.  It is Hot Chocolate Day!  We will be running it at recess again down in the valley.  If you are able to bring a packet of chocolate chip cookies to sell with the Hot Chocolate, that would be great.  It is not a requirement to bake cakes for this.  It is not a component of the GD, just our Hot chocolate fundraiser so bring yourself, some cookies and a great big smile.

Week 8 Already?!

We are coming toward the end of Term 3 of Year 6 - can you believe it?

We have been working with mass and capacity this week, trying to formulate a procedure for measuring the mass of 1L of water.  The photos below show our investigations.  It was a good discussion afterwards about the importance of measuring accurately, and to remember that we cannot include the mass of the container in the final result.  We then went on to investigate how to reproduce a given 3D object (a cube with patterned sides) correctly when recreating it on a net of that solid.  It was helpful to discuss the different ways that students tackled this problem.

In English we have been analysing, reading and writing informative texts, including factual descriptions.  As a class we brainstormed ideas about Uluru, divided those ideas into subheadings, then split into groups to write a paragraph for each subheading for our joint description.  Each group worked together to investigate the accuracy of the facts we had brainstormed, then created their own paragraph that we then put together to create the complete description.  You can see their contributions and groups in the photos below.

We also rounded out the week with our Public Speaking Competition Finals.  Our Year 6 finalists were Will and Sam.  Both students spoke very well, engaging and entertaining the audience effectively.  Bravo!  Sam was awarded the win for Stage 3 among some tough competition from Will, Siena and Azaniah.  Well done to all the finalists and well done Sam.

The Graduation Diploma speeches were heard over this past fortnight by both myself and Mrs Bennett and we were both extremely impressed with the passion, skill and effective delivery techniques demonstrated by the students.  Each student has received today personal feedback and completed a reflection on the process.  It was a privilege to hear these well prepared speeches.

Have a great weekend.

Save the Date! - Christmas Carnival

Are my Premier Reading Challenge Records correct?

Calling all year 6 students - Is your name missing from our Premier Reading Challenge Records? I have the following students registered and completed:

• James Coates 
• Samuel Wiles

If you have completed the challenge and your name is not listed, please send your student reading records to Mrs Duffy on bayviewoffice@stlukes.nsw.edu.au  by the end of Tuesday 11 September.

Positives

I just wanted to share with you this week some of the positive learning that your children are involved in every day in the classroom.

This term we have been focusing on Healthy Choices in PDH and have made links with this throughout our lessons. I have attached some photos of some of our activities and reflections below.  

We started the term with 5 Days of Thankfulness, encouraging students to see the blessings in their everyday week.  We talked about how seeing the good in our lives is a choice, and that we can choose for the glass to be half empty or half full - it all depends on what you choose to see.

We have completed reflections based on song lyrics and quotes from key figures focusing on being inspired that we can make choices and changes in our lives that are positive.  Some student reflections are shown below.

We have been discussing self image and how we have intrinsic value as human beings and as children of God.  We have created 'place mats' where students went around and wrote positive observations about each other, then reflected meaningfully on how those positive thoughts impacted on our understanding of ourselves.  I have asked permission to share two of those mats here.

We have also been able to present our gift to the school this week in assembly - what a great moment.  The culmination of over half a year of efforts - the students did a fabulous job of presenting and demonstrating our school gift.  Harry and his Mum have created a fantastic visual for our classroom to show how close we are to our goal donation amount.  Videos of the presentation and photos of the visual are below.

We are working hard to create a positive and encouraging experience for all our students, so that they can see the good in their lives and have the confidence and courage to contribute to our world in the most positive of ways.