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School Highlights

Tomato Town

“Doot Doot!” (The traditional greeting in Tomato Town) - The Mayor of Tomato Town, Mr Gomez Pectin, tasked our Year 4 students with a rather tasty challenge this past semester: To grow their own tomatoes, sample a variety of ingredients such as herbs and veggies, and design their own healthy non-cooking recipe that features their fresh tomatoes! All a part of Food Specialisations (Design and Technologies), Science (biology) and healthy eating (Health), students have been learning about designing a safe environment for plants, researching recipe ideas, problem solving and working as a team to meet the needs of the design brief.

As promised, last Friday was held the Tomato Town Banquet! Mayor Gomez Pectin and his assistant, Ms Phenolic Flavanoid, visited our Year 4 munchkin chefs who had been working feverishly to create their recipes. Our guests then sampled every dish and scored them to a strict marking criteria.

“All the dishes were fantastic! So tasty and good looking!” exclaimed Ms Flavanoid. “VIVA EL TOMATE!” shouted Mayor Pectin. A fun tomato-filled time was had by all.

Year 4 Stem Robotics Workshop

Today, the Year 4 Stem students travelled to Adelaide University to take part in a Robotics workshop run by ROBOGALS, a group if Engineering and Computer Science students. We learnt how to code our robots to move forward, back, turn, stop at barriers, change direction and move 'arms' before we all participated in a very exciting Robo-battle!

The students then enjoyed a morning tea, supplied by our lovely hosts, who had also arranged a Stem, 'yellow brick road style' hunting quiz around the University through various buildings and grounds. We had a race to see who could answer all the questions but also work collaboratively. The winners even got some drink bottles and stationary packs as prizes. It was a fantastic experience for all involved and we are very grateful to ROBOGALS and our extra parent helper, Mrs Elvin and our bus driver, Danny for coming along too!

Mrs Vice

Undercover Nature Play

Winter returned for a moment this week, which meant we had to use some shelter during lunch time this week. The beauty of Nature play is it can be easily adapted, which is what we did. We took our play undercover, while still interacting and playing with nature. This week, the children had the chance to play with and design a creation out of clay. They had a selection of different coloured clay, and some natural pieces, plus some cookie cutters if they wanted to choose a shape for their creation.

The children’s creativity shone through, with not two designs the same. Using some gumnuts, rocks, leaves and twigs, the children made a snail, a gingerbread man, and some beautiful hearts with pressed leaf and flower patterns on them. The beauty of using air dry clay is they can be kept and even painted once they have dried for a beautiful keepsake. Have you used clay with your family?