Award of Merit - Week 6

Tino Pai Sela, who received this weeks award of merit for the effort she has been applying to her numeracy learning.

Ka Pai Neil and Jimmy who received certificates from Ms Watson for their excellence in the cooking extension program. They are posing with some of the fantastic art work that has been taking place around the school.

Science Roadshow

This week some students went and visited the Science Roadshow. The Science Roadshow was lots of fun, the children got to trial a whole range of different experiments as well as try to figure out the reasons why certain things worked the way they do.

Paige and Michelle trying to figure out how this experiment with rotational gravity worked. 

Jasraj and Aomi

Codi and Ethyn 

Even the teachers learnt lots too. 

 Codey, Aomi and Jasraj

And we sat down to learn about some different topics, such as how muscles work.

Aomi even won a pen with a caliper attached, which is used to measure the distance between two sides of an object.

Reminder: Science Fair projects should be coming together now, they are due next Friday.

Parent - Teacher -Student Conferences

Notices have gone home to all students, the conferences are coming up next week. Please return notices as soon as possible in order to book an appointment.

It would be fantastic to meet with you and discuss your child's learning.

Science Fair

Science Fair Projects should be underway at home. This year the science fair projects can be around a topic that interests the creator. At the beginning of this term students took home a timeline to follow to finish their Science Fair Projects, their finished projects are due on the 20th of June.

At school we have been through the process of completing a mini science fair, as well as discussion around what makes a good science fair. The students have information on the science fair process in their school diaries as well to help them.

Here are some sites that we have looked at in class and might be helpful at home as well:

This website has some ideas of science fair topics that can be done - http://www.sciencefair-projects.org/index.html

This website goes through the process of the science fair - http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_coach/science-project-coach.html