Lachlan recently completed a learning project where he needed to ‘design a fishing boat using environmental practices’ as part of the sustainability unit the whole school is studying. His design was based on the ‘virtual’ ship that he built for the HSIE project in Term 1. Here is his project presentation: Well done Lachlan. What a… Read more Lachlan’s Boat
Last Thursday, 23rd of May, Crossmaglen School hosted Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. Students and staff supplied an extensive spread of cakes, slices, biscuits and samosa for the guests. With more than 30 people attending, we raised over $270 for the Cancer Council. This is a wonderful effort for such a small community. A special mention must go to… Read more Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
As part of our ‘Coral Reef’ Homework unit this term, Vikram chose to ‘Invent a fishing boat that uses only environmentally friendly practices.’ He designed his boat and with the help of his grandfather, Vikram built a small fishing boat – big enough for him to sit in. During the building he also put together… Read more Vikram’s fishing boat
Easter hats, or more traditionally the Easter bonnet, are a tried and true part of Easter celebrations at primary schools around Australia. The Easter hat parade is a school tradition that seems to have its roots in the northern hemisphere, where Americans and Europeans would wear hats to events like Easter Parade and church services.… Read more Easter Hat Parade
On Friday students continued to finalise their virtual builds and this week will be taking snapshots in-world to place on their individual blog information reports. We also had some pre-service primary education students visit from Southern Cross University as they wanted to see how we are using virtual world technology in the classroom. Finally after… Read more What we did on Friday…
The student virtual builds are looking fantastic and all students are working on their information reports to be published on their individual student blogs. Both Lachlan and Leon are sharing their ideas as they develop skills using sim-on-a-stick. Mrs Booth was amazed with the quality of their artefacts. Lachlan is continuing on Sydney Harbour Bridge… Read more Our Australian Heritage Virtual Projects
Crossmaglen students’ have been working on lino printing for art with Mrs Peart. We have to use special tools to carve our patterns out of the lino. This is how we did it… Lino Printing Instructions Resources: Lino tile, 2 rollers, HB pencil, printing ink, paper We drew an insect on a piece of paper… Read more Lino Printing
Mrs Champion has been teaching us about the animal kingdom and recently we learnt about animals with a vertebral column or back bone. We also looked at Invertebrates ( animals without a backbone). As a continuation we had a special morning where we could bring our pets to school and some of them were very interested in… Read more Animals with a Backbone
Mrs Peart, Crossmaglens specialist art teacher, has been working with the students’ on a collective art work connected to scale. An image of a dragonfly was printed out and cut into small sections. Each student took a section and had to replicate their piece using different media and paper. When finished the group had to… Read more Dragonfly Art