Leadership

Year6 leadership day was made to push us out of our comfort zones and learn about team work and responsibility also, being comfortable enough to share ideas with new people around us we hadn’t met before.

This day had many activities that included creativity and collaboration the first activity was making tower with news paper and masking tape but we didn’t make the tower to tall but we were some of the last towers standing and thats what matters, the second one was making the tallest cup tower but you can only touch the cups, with rubber bands that were given to us and we succeeded and made the tallest we because worked together and came up with a great idea that everyone agreed on. Finally was a planking challenge were 6 people from the 9 people in the group had to planking at once and so we could swap with the other 3 when we got tired and my team ended up coming 3 out of fourteen other teams, overall everyone enjoyed the day then we had to say goodbye to our friends from the Donvale campus, then the day was over with smiles on everyone’s faces and everyone went home.

By Henry

Percy Jackson the lighting thief the graphic novel by Rick Riordan 

Fantasy

Percy Jackson is about a kid who finds out that he’s a half blood which means he’s half human and his other half greek god and find his way to save the world by facing challenges.

I enjoyed this book because of all of the intense battles which made the book exciting and making me wanting to read more also with all of the confusing twists which made the story better all round.

Have you ever read a book by Rick riordan is so which one have you read.

by  Henry

Toonalook

Camp was great Learning about so many amazing things in Gippsland a also all of the great activities and food my class got to try out.

The Best activities I got to try have to have been fishing,  bike riding, kayaking as finally king ball. fishing was great because we got a boat from camp to a marina we’re there we’re so many jelly fish but sadly now one caught a single fish there, then we went bike riding we’er we saw so many koalas 23 to be exact which was great. The. there was king ball it’s kind of the down ball except your put no four circles and you are allowed to bounce the ball three times then smash it into someone else’s square. and we can’t forget kayaking because we were on lake Victoria driving blade deep in the water to move around in time with our partners.

The most challenging time was the camp out because we had to pitch tents for the first time and to be able to pitch the tent we had to listen to everything the year 11’s told us to do. So no water got in and also so our tent doesn’t blow over, but. Before we brushed our teeth we had to lear a new technique called the white elephant so we don’t hurt the nature that we were so surrounded in,and white this new technique we had spray all of the tooth paste out of our mouths instead of spiting it out. This was just one of our learning experiences on camp.

The Carey PLAS that  I think I showed during camp were courage and resilience because courage. Because I had to face my fear of trying new things like new activities and food, and resilience because you just have to keep on pushing yourself  through all of the rough times at camp.

by Henry

Do you have a favorite school camp if so where is it and what’s the name of it?

My Avatar

Hello everyone we just started a blog challenge till the end of the term. The website I used to make my avatar was cartoonify here’s the url https://www.cartoonify.de use it to make your very own Avatar.

My Avatar has dirty blonde hair, blue eyes and since blue is my favourite colour I have a blue jumper. All of the clothes and the attributes of my avatar look like me and all of my favourite clothes. Like the blue jumper looks the like the blue Philadelphia 76ers jumper I wear at home and my hair is all meet up like my own.

Have you made a avatar?

by Henry

Hard Road Ahead!

Blurb

The Hard Road Ahead unit has been exiting because of all of the history about of the Gold rush, Eureka Stockade and generally about the 1850’s and how it was survive.

Life in the 1850’s was hard because you could have been fined for no reason and tied to a tree if you didn’t have a license for mining gold and many more. Life was also hard because people who came from another country they would be living in a tent and would be living on barley and money to live on.

The 1850’s businesses could of been A General store, A cook shop, lollie shop and many others that’s how a lot of people chose to make money on the diggings, like the General sore Clarke brothers grocer sold spices,  liquorice, fudge, soaps, mustard, vinegar,  biscuits, herbs, coffee, honey, and jam, Also the owner’s the clarke’s had another shop called tin smiths they sold many kitchen items and candles and more.

Sovereign Hill  diorama.

my building that Me and my partner made.

The Eureka stockade was one of the most defining moments in Australian history because it lead to so many things like the miners right which let’s miners to vote and use a certain amount of land for a little amount of time, also it showed how unfair people were treated by red coats and the government. But the  rebellion didn’t go to plan because the red coats stormed the stockade in the middle of the night and killed 23 miners 3 red coats and one woman.

Famous and important figures in the gold rush well one of them was Peter Lalor because he felt like he was being treated unfairly and then stood up at a roll up then encourage the unfairly treated miners to swear an oath if they were willing to fight for the miners right’ and try and get the government to give the miners there right’s the miners right made the miners to vote and use a small amount of land for a little.

A photo from camp.

Some important dates of the 1850’s were 1851 gold was discovered in Ballarat than a lot more discoveries of gold were being found October 7 1854 James Scobie  was murder outside of the Eureka Hotel by james Bentley and at court he was set free of charge and then the miners got angry then burnt his hotel and then is court he was sent to jail.

The Clarke Brothers Grocer was the building I chose for the class Sovereign Hill diorama and the profession then they did was shop keeping because they sold kitchen, spices,  liquorice, fudge, soaps, mustard, vinegar,  biscuits, herbs, coffee, honey, and jam, and the owners the Clarke’s had two shops one called the tin smiths.

what do you know about the 1850’s

from Henry

The year five market reflection

                                    Sovereign Hill 

 One of the positive learner attributes that were used at camp was collaboration. When you had free time we had to be in a group of 3 within our class we also had to choose where to go first then the next. Then courage because you would have to listen and learn at a school from the 1850’s.

Things that I learned at Sovereign Hill were learning how to write in copper plate which is really curvy, also how to speak in Irish Gaelic which is really tough because you have to make noises from your throat and mouth.

My favourite part about camp was easily the schools’ program because you get to learn in the 1850/1840’s and you have to be good or you will be disciplined, with the cane or the strap which could hurt a lot but luckily… no one got the strap or cane in our class.

Something that would make this experience better could be more information in the mine tours because you could learn more about the gold rush and how they made the mines and how they found gold apart from mining.

Do you want to go to Sovereign Hill?

By Henry

This term in year five our class is learning about poems and haiku is just one of them Haiku poems are made up of three lines. The first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the last line is 5 syllables.

The Fright of Surfing

The waving water,

carving the ocean shining,

jumping off the wave

by Henry