Exploring Earthquakes in Year 6

In recent lessons, Year 6 students have been delving into the fascinating world of earthquakes! Through hands-on activities, like comparing eggs to the Earth's structure and experimenting with playdough to understand the forces at play during earthquakes, our young scientists are gaining a deeper understanding of these powerful natural phenomena.

Playdate with Prescott

A welcome change in weather last Friday came at just the right time for our first Playdate with Prescott for 2024. We welcomed lots of new faces and with the help of some of our Year 5 students the little ones enjoyed a fun morning of nature play, painting, and craft.

The theme for our morning was ‘A celebration of cultures’. Together all the little ones created a collaborative artwork that celebrated our different cultures. Our staff and student helpers dressed in cultural clothes, and after lots of playing, crafting, and yummy fruit snacks we finished the morning with group time. Phil, our special guest brought along his Yidaki, and the children had lots of fun bouncing like kangaroos, walking like emus, and slithering like snakes.

We look forward to welcoming our little friends back for our next Playdate very soon.

We're Going on a Bug Hunt! 

Have you ever gone on a bug hunt in your own garden? What bugs did you find?

We have so many creatures crawling around under logs and in our gardens doing wonderful things. This week, the students went on a bug hunt to stop and notice the bugs we might have around our school. Armed with a magnifying glass and a poster of common school yard creatures, the students went on a hunt around the school to see if they could find them. Squeals of joy were heard as they located an ant and saw a bee and butterfly flying between the plants in our playground. They loved trekking through the garden to see what they could find. There weren't too many about in the heat, but they were excited to keep their eyes out for what they might see around the playground in the next few weeks.  

Students also had the chance to make a rock creature by decorating it with paint pens. Some students made lady bugs, spiders and there were plenty of bees.  

Will you take some time this week to go out to your garden or a local park and have a close look to see what might be in your garden? Nature play SA have some wonderful downloads that you can print off at your house and discover what creatures you have around your house! 

Foundation Nature Maths  

For the next 5 weeks, our Foundations students will be heading outside to do some maths in nature. This week was our first lesson outside, and it was a lovely warm day to kick it off.

The students had a quick recap on the numbers we were focusing on and then had the chance to collect items in nature and represent the numbers 1-10 using the items they had collected. The students collected many different things from leaves, to bark, rocks and sticks and busily worked away to count the number of items for each number. They then got the chance to practise writing those numbers with a stick in the sand and the dirt. It was a great hands-on lesson that can easily be done outside wherever you are. We can’t wait to practise more maths skills outside next week!