Mrs Champion has been teaching the students all about water for science and Mrs Peart has been teaching the students all about goods and services through the HSIE unit Who will buy? . Mrs Booth has mashed them together to create a project using Sim-on-a-Stick, our virtual world on a USB . Grade 1 and 2 are… Read more Dairy Excursion
It was a beautiful day in Bellingen as we developed our cricketing skills with other school teams in the Milo T20 Cricket Day. The day was all about enjoying the sport and developing sportmanship in a team situation. Crossmaglen played extremely well and Mrs Booth and Rom were very pleased with their behaviour both on… Read more Milo T20 Cricket Day
This morning the students were involved in a creative writing session and they loved it! They were shown an image of a Lions Mane Jellyfish that Mrs Booth had sourced from Steph Westwood’s Pinterest Writing Inspiration board. Initially lots of discussion fired up the students imagination. Next, Mrs Booth had grade 1 and 2 students… Read more Creative Writing
Hover your mouse over the image to read Cooper’s creative writing piece written in Mrs Champions class on Wednesday.
Mrs Booth has combined the science and HSIE themes for this term into an integrated virtual project. All students are looking at the use of water for farming and packaging. Each student has selected a particular type of farm and is recreating a 3D representation of it using Sim-on-a-Stick or concrete materials. They must include… Read more Virtual World Science/HSIE Projects
Dear Mrs Cavanagh this is Aimee and Malakai On Monday we had Mrs Champion and worked very hard on English and maths. Later we completed more of our Morocco project ,spelling,recess,more of our Morocco project,lunch and more of our Moroccan project. On Tuesday we had Mrs Peart in the morning we did 3D shapes then… Read more Dear Mrs Cavanagh
Hover over the image below and click on the icons to read about the work we did on the water cycle this morning. We were still getting all the computers running with Sim-on-a-Stick so some students will be starting their building projects next Friday. They still picked up some great ideas from viewing other students… Read more The Water Cycle using Sim-on-a-Stick
Recently Glen Booth, game fisherman and author, visited our school and spoke to the students about the subject of game fishing and tagging fish for science. He brought in one of his fishing rods and the jaws from a 1300lb tiger shark! The students loved the presentation and Glen even gave us a copy of… Read more Game Fishing for Science
What a stunning June day it was on Tuesday and the afternoon was spent outside with our art journals developing our artists eye as we studied the environment around us. Our specialist art teacher, Mrs Peart, is amazing and manages to guide our students to develop excellent creative skills. This is paramount as the new… Read more Tuesday Afternoon Art
Vikram and Lachlan have been investigating how they can best design and make a shark repellent wetsuit…Mmmm not sure they are quite there yet and going by the smiles they are probably waiting for Mrs Booth to come back and test it out for them…We will see about that! In the meantime scientists have also… Read more Shark Repelling Wetsuit!