Memories of Term 2

In term 2 we were able to experience new learning and school related trips to strengthen our learning.

We had a student teacher named Miss Yee. We did a lot of things with Miss Yee like maths and reading. Miss Yee gave us fake money for being good we got 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, $2. At the end of her time with us we got to count our money and buy things from her collection of items that we could afford with our money.

We went to the Howick Historical Village to see how they lived in the olden days. We did some activities with the people that worked there. One activity was to make a go-cart. Not many groups finished making their go-cart, but we enjoyed the activity because we had to problem solve and cooperate with each other to complete the task and ride on the cart we made.

We also went to MOTAT to look at innovations from the past to the present in transport and communication for our topic study. During the day at MOTAT we looked at many different displays. After lunch at MOTAT our class had to go into the workshop for an education session on communication gadgets and how they improved over the years. There we had a teacher called Katie who taught us all about communication. We had an opportunity to look at and use the telegraph machine, radiograms, telephones, slide projectors, signalling systems, feather tip pens, typewriters and other old gadgets people used in the past. We learnt that innovations bring with them challenges and also opportunities.

There have been a lot of sports tournaments that our school took part in and one of them was a boy’s rugby tournament at Dunkirk. We played against Pt England, Sylvia Park, Bailey Road and Sacred Heart. We performed very well. The year 7 boys had a soccer tournament at Glendowie and we played against many other intermediate schools and did our very best.

It has been a busy term and I am sure next term will be another exciting and busy term. I can’t wait!!!