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Month: July 2018

Hockey Equipment

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For PE we are going to be looking at and playing hockey in the next few weeks. This will be a modified version, with softer balls and no goalie. The school has equipment such as shin pads, but if you would like your child to wear a mouth guard you will need to provide one. With softer balls and no sticks above the knee, this should be unnecessary, but I will leave it to your family to decide. Students are allowed to bring their own stick and shin pads if they wish. We start on Friday, weather pe...
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The Wonderful & Colourful Barbapapas!

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At the end of Term 2, the 5/6/7 students were introduced to the Barpapapas: French cartoon characters who can take on any shape they want to solve problems. The students’ end-of-term assignment was to create a Barbapapa character out of clay, paint it, and create a bedroom for it reflecting its personality. They had to develop simple descriptions of their character and their room. The descriptions were recorded on audio and linked to a QR code displayed on the side of the bedroom. On the l...
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Save your recyclables!

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Can you please save and send to school in the next two weeks any empty paper rolls (such as glad wrap), meat trays and small cardboard boxes (such as cereal and Shapes boxes) for a STEM challenge that we will be doing in Week 2? Thanks a bunch!
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How We Fixed The Fairy Tales

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During Term 2, the 5/6/7 and 2/3 classes buddied up for a 3D Printing project. Their brief: in small groups, identify a fairy tale and in it, a character who has a problem. Design a 3D object to solve this character’s problem. The 3D objects designed are very creative. It was fascinating to watch the objects become a reality thanks to the school’s amazing 3D printer. The objects were coloured by their creators. They will be displayed in the front office for the first week of Term 3 i...
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How We Fixed The Fairy Tales

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During Term 2, the 5/6/7 and 2/3 classes buddied up for a 3D Printing project. Their brief: in small groups, identify a fairy tale and in it, a character who has a problem. Design a 3D object to solve this character’s problem. The 3D objects designed are very creative. It was fascinating to watch the objects become a reality thanks to the school’s amazing 3D printer. The objects were coloured by their creators. They will be displayed in the front office for the first week of Term 3 i...
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