Yesterday all of Year 5 along with Mr Hicks and Mrs Enright went to Moruya High School for the first annual Year 5 orientation day.  Following are some photos of some of the classes they attended.

Congratulations to all the children that have received awards over the last few weeks.

We are very lucky this year.  When the new Kindergartens for 2018 come and visit us throughout term four, the current kindergartens are coming to the Year 5/6 classes to do activities.  The activities have been designed by the Year 6 children of 5/6C.  The activities were based on fairy tales eg, Beauty and the Beast, Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood.
Following are a lot of photos from our enjoyable time together.

Last term we completed another STEM activity.  The children were provide with 4, 20 cm in length sheets of cling wrap, 4 pencils and masking tape.  They had to make a tunnel that would not collapse under the weight of sand covering it.  Here are some of the successes....

Last Friday Broulee Public School completed the schools annual Walk a thon.  It was a lot of fun and here are just a few pictures to show us enjoying lunch at the surf club.  We also discovered a man made shelter on the way.

Please make sure to collect your sponsorship money and return ASAP.

This week in STEM we pretended that Olaf from Frozen was going on a trip and he doesn't want to melt.
The children had to design a structure that stopped Olaf from melting.

Using only the materials provided:
Bubble wrap
Newspaper
Baking Paper
Cling wrap
Foil

Before starting they had to measure the L and W of Olaf (Ice cube) then put Olaf in front a variety of heat sources. Ranging from a torch to the sun.  They then measured moisture loss and remeasured the L and W to see the physical change.

Below are some pictures of the children participating in this activity.

This week 5/6C started STEM.
STEM is - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. 

Each week we are completing a task.  This week we focused on the Three Little Pigs.  The children had to build a structure that had to fit into the following criteria.

It must be 18 cm tall.
Use 10 pieces of newspaper.
Must have a wall.
The structures were then put in front of a fan.  Low setting was a strong wind, Medium setting was a strong storm and high setting was a hurricane.

Below are some photos that show the children creating these structures.

Congrats to Rhiannon, Callie, Tiarna and Monique on working hard in mathematics this week.