Last Tuesday was the day of the year 6 conference. The Kew campus kids met up with the Donvale campus students for a day all about teamwork and resilience. After a newspaper tower competition, a cup stacking competition (no hands) and a talk about the brain, it was time for the last event of the Read More…
Kangaroos
Thud! Thud! Thud! As the kangaroos approach each other, it is very clear that this is going to be a incredibly physical fight. Wham!! Ouch! That’s got to hurt. A kick straight to the lower regions! Crunch! That punch to the jaw just took the kangaroo down to the ground. He could finish it off Read More…
My favourite book chat book of 2019
The year 5 production
“Beautiful! Just beautiful!” Eddie exclaimed as the brides walked onto stage. This term we have been rehearsing for our year 5 production on Australia called Hanging to the Bottom of the World. We did it with 5B. It was so much fun! I was the governor of New South Wales. The other governors were Hutchy, Paige, Cristiano, Read More…
Celebrations
Haiku: Easter. So much fun! Chocolate eggs and rabbits. All delicious. Free style: Easter is great. You get hot cross buns. Most people have hunts to find chocolate eggs. I love Easter because it brings the family together. It is a Christian holiday. Rhymes: Easter was really great, Because of the chocolate we ate. Rabbits Read More…
Easter Poems
Haiku: Easter. So much fun! Chocolate eggs and rabbits. All delicious. Free style: Easter is great. You get hot cross buns. Most people have hunts to find chocolate eggs. I love Easter because it brings the family together. It is a Christian holiday. Rhymes: Easter was really great, Because of the chocolate we Read More…
Camp reflection
On Monday, we went on camp to a place called Toonallook, which means ‘place of fish’ in indigenous languages. It was so much fun! We went kayaking, fishing, biking and much more. I’m going to tell you about my experience. We left on the bus at about 8:30am and arrived 4 hours later at Read More…
My Avatar
Hi, I’m Nik and this is my avatar. Obviously it is not identical to what I actually look like, but it was the best I could do. I have patted down dark brown hair and brown eyes. I like the colours green, turquoise and blue. In my avatar I am wearing a hoodie to show Read More…
The Hard Road Ahead
Imagine you’re on the goldfields and you’re down a mine shaft. A rush of water floods into the cave and you are instantly up to your waist in filthy water. You yell “HELP!” But everyone else has evacuated. You can’t breathe. You try to swim but the cave is crumbling. Everything goes black… My time Read More…
Book week blog post
What makes a good information book? A good information book has many realistic pictures and statements which help you learn and understand what you are reading. The information needs to be factual and real, so the reader knows it is true. Information sources need to be clearly stated so that the reader knows where the Read More…