Buddy Class Picnic

On Wednesday 19 November, Room 6 and Room 14 went to Victoria Park as part of our Buddy Class. We have been meeting each week all year to play games, share reading, make fun art creations and organise our end of year picnic. Room 14 organised the day by preparing everyone's lunches, organising the bus to and from Victoria Park and also the running of the day.  We were treated to games, a Scavenger Hunt and even some treats at the end of the day.

Here is a cool Video to sum up our day:

Our Buddy Class Picnic

Science Week - You, Me and UV

This week at Merrin School it has been Science Week. Room 6 have been looking at how the Sun can use UV to harm us.

We have been learning the importance of keeping ourselves safe from the UV Rays by:
1. Wearing a Sunhat
2. Putting on Sunblock
3. Covering our body with suitable clothing
4. Wearing Sunglasses
5. Having suitable footwear on our feet

We also made some Bracelets using UV beads so we could see how they glow in the sun. Our Buddy Class joined us in our celebration of this on Friday.

Writing Instructions

How to get ready for a day at the beach

In Room 6 we have been learning about how to write instructions for getting ready for the beach. The children had to think about what they needed and what order we would have to do things. Here are some samples of what we came up with...

By Hayden

By Ethan

By Lucy

Japanese Origami

On Thursday, we had a visit from Maho, a visiting Japanese teacher, who showed us some origami.  

She had made  a crane, a ninja, some ninja stars, a boat and a medal. 

Have a look at how to make a Samurai's helmet. The children loved making it.

Getting Ready for Term 4

I hope you have all had a fantastic holiday and recharged your batteries for a very busy last term. Term 4 will be super busy with swimming and athletics and other exciting events and learning planned.

This term we will be working on:

Writing - Procedural writing - instructions. This will align with our Inquiry this term.

Reading - Building up a better knowledge of the text by being able to inference and retell the story in our own words.

Math - starting with algebra for 2 weeks. Then we will be continuing with our number knowledge and extending our basic facts to using more than one strategy to answer an equation.

Inquiry/Science - You, Me and UV for five weeks. This is going to be very exciting for the children as we move into the warmer season.

Swimming - This begins on the 31 October for 2 weeks. A notice will go home in the first week of term. Room 6 will be going from 8:45am-10:15pm each day with Room 14.

Athletics is rebooked for Tuesday 2nd December. Our syndicate will be practicing before this starting week 5. I will keep you informed of these closer to the time.

Remember it is compulsory to wear a sunhat in Term 4. There have been some left in the cloakroom so if you have lost yours, please look there first.

I look forward to seeing all of you again in Term 4.
Miss Gallagher

The Junior Stars Assembly

Room 6 were the hosts of the end of term Assembly today. Miss Gallagher was so proud of how everyone spoke clearly and loudly into the microphone as well as their very special dance.

Check out the Room 6 Ferocious Animals Dance:

The Junior Stars were also very lucky to see the Year 2/3 Dance Group. Thank you to Mrs H and her wonderful efforts in teaching the children this dance:

To end the assembly we had a celebration for all the classes - a video of their achievements and activities during the second half of the term:

Thank you to all the fabulous parents who came and joined us for this celebration. Have a safe and restful holidays. We will see you all next term all refreshed and excited to do some more learning.

Ms D-R shows the children Perseverance

Ms D-R was given a challenge by another principal......  Ms D-R showed the children how to display our values goal we have been working on over the past few weeks - Perseverance..... 



Check out what happened: