Change to English Homework Weeks 1 - 5 of Term 4

Please note that all English homework will be on the blog for the beginning half of Term 4.

Completion of these short tasks is essential to weekly class activities and our English Assessment in Weeks 5 and 6. Borrowing from the Primary Branch will take place on a Monday morning, allowing for the brief summary to be written before Thursday of that week. Students may also borrow from The Hub during recess, lunch and before school, as well as from their local library in needed.

The weekly task can be viewed on the relevant page (e.g Homework Week 1 + 2) as per our Mathematics homework for the previous three terms.

Please see Mr Sales or I ASAP if you  foresee this being a problem so that we can make arrangements to ensure your child is prepared.

Oztag with Mr. Wadds Year 10 PASS class

Over the last three weeks Stage 3 have had the pleasure of participating in a coaching clinic run by Year 10 students from Mr. Wadds PASS class. They had the task of planning and implementing 3 coaching sessions that demonstrated an understanding of the structure of a quality lesson and developed skills required to play Oztag. We had great fun and learned a lot from them!

Here are some of the activities we liked the best, things we learned and some advice we had for the year 10 students in future. Special thanks to our guest bloggers from 5/6C and 5E for contributing to this post. 

I loved playing Oz Tag in PE  because the leaders help lots, like they don’t just tell you how to pass a ball they show you, and if they still don’t  get it they’ll help you until you do get it. I learnt how to run with a ball and catch a ball, and then at the end we put it all together. I liked at the end they gave us lollipops and tips one of the tips was wherever you want the ball to go it will go. I liked how we stretched at the end I think they should that all the time.

By Chloe R, 5/6C 

My favourite  activity was Oztag  bull rush because you have two lives instead of one. Also because if you get tagged you get to run around instead of being stuck in one spot.
I learnt how to pass and that if you spin when running with the ball you have a better chance of not getting tagged. I also learnt that you must throw the ball behind you when passing.
My teacher is good at passing and dogging taggers.
They could show more demonstrations, also less games and more focus time.
From Connor 5/6C

I have learnt to do longer passes and to chuck the dummy and pass.
My favourite activity was where there were 2 attackers and 3 defenders and you had to get to the other end to score a try.
My coaches were so funny and kind if they saw you not having a good day they would cheer you up.
Anthony S, 5E

For the past three weeks i've been learning oztag with my year ten coaches Josh and Bolten this is a recount of what i've experienced….

Week One:

In week one i was put in Josh and Boltons group, there we got started instantly by passing a football to practice catching skills and playing a few rounds of bullrush to help us with tagging, We then played a quick mini Oztag game to finish the day.

What I liked:

Everyone got into it straight away and enjoyed themselves.

What I disliked:

I didn't fully understand the  rules of oztag and was slightly confused I think that everyone would have enjoyed themselves even more if we had some idea of the game.

Week Two:

In Week two we started with a few games of bullrush to improve our running and tagging skills we then went on to play a team V team mini game of defending and attacking which was fun and a great way to improve skills.

What I liked: Lots of fun team games

What I disliked: Some cheating and bad sportsmanship
By Anthony G, 6L

In P.E with oztag i learnt how to avoid being tagged, how to pass the ball and how to defend. When you pass the ball you have to make sure there is someone is  behind you.
Daniel L, 6L

My Favourite Part?

My favourite part was when we played a game of oz tag and I scored try.

What I learnt?

I learnt that you have to put the ball down to score a try and you can’t slide on the grass to score.

Tips?

They said to move my hips more so it gets harder for my opponents to get my tags.

By Jaimee 5/6C

I liked the way the year tens ran Oz tag by putting people into partners then putting them into a big group so that you can’t go with your friends.  

What the year tens can work on like passing the ball a bit more and how to kick a ball below the shoulders and what a marker is.

What I learnt is that is that you have to pass the ball three times.

By Brandon 5/6C

During PE we were taken by year 10 students to teach us how to play oztag.

What Happened During The Three Weeks?

We played activities, my favourite was pass the ball 10 times.

That Was Fun Because?

You had to pass the ball to your team 10 times without dropping it while the other team tried to knock out of the air.

What Were Your Leaders Like?

We had three leaders Will and two girls. Will was funny and always kept us going.

By Jordan 6S

What was your favourite activity? What did you learn?

Genius Hour Presentations

Today I had the pleasure of viewing stage 3's Genius Hour Presentations; I was immensely proud of all they had achieved this term and the explanations they were able to give about their learning. 

Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers and fellow classes who took time out of their busy schedules to drop in and see the projects! Your presence meant a great deal to the students and also helped raise the overall level of achievement as students worked for a genuine audience. 

Genius hour is a unique opportunity to practice key skills such as research, critical thinking and creativity, whilst fostering an enthusiasm and love of learning. Students selected an area of their choice and learned for the sake of learning - with enthusiasm! In the excited chatter this afternoon plans were already being made for what to do next time! 

Brandon explaining how he built his coffee table!

Bri trying out a face cream sample on Georgia!

Livia demonstrating her knitting technique.

We loved seeing what people in other classes had done!

Hayley sharing her learning about the human heart.

Some excellent animations were created using Flash and PowerPoint. 

Payten had researched how to make bread and then brought in samples. The cheese and bacon roll was delicious!

Cooper explaining his project to Elijah.

Logan encouraging a friend to come and see something he had learned from Connor!

Brock explaining what he'd learned about solar panels - his windmills successfully turned when placed in the sun!

Our Junior School friends loved investigating Chaye's Tek Dek ramps.

Naomi demonstrating her experiment.

JS students exploring Lachlan's blog.

Mrs Todd and 3T came to visit - thanks for coming! 

Brendan playing guitar and Kai playing drums created by Brendon, in order to provide some musical entertainment.

Daniel and Jake enjoying Jeremiah's presentation.

Ethan explaining his research on Lego bricks and how he'd created them.

Maddie demonstrating her plan for getting around Disneyland - we can't wait to hear how this goes in action!

 Pastor Elljay came to see our presentations as well - thanks for coming!

Max's skill tester proved to be quite challenging but very addictive!

Further musical entertainment was provided by Teagan, who had a song list to make requests from!

Kai explaining his research about techniques for throwing a frisbee and Nicole explaining her research about Special effects in movies.

Viewing Liz's explanation and examples of the use of photoshop - the before and after pictures were certainly eye opening!

Daniel amazing us with his card tricks!

Jake explaining how each of the parts of a motorbike work. His explanations and ability to explain it with a model in a way that made sense to an engine novice like me were certainly impressive!

Mrs Whitelaw viewing Joel's website - thanks for dropping by!

Miss Everett getting a tour of Daniels website.

4B also came to visit, as did Mr Nightingale - thanks for the support!

Isaac programmed a computer game using Scratch, possibly a future computer programmer in our midst!

Isaac reading a peers learning journal to see what they had explored.

That skill tester sure was addictive - many returned determined to get that little bit further! 

Logan's Simpson's figurines.

Emily getting ready to undertake her egg test. We predicted whether the egg would break when padded with feathers...

It didn't go quite as planned and practiced but still generated much interest and hypothesising from the gathered crowd!

Isabelle's cake testing had a line up before she even began! 

Mrs McGinnes, Miss Garcia, Mrs Rodriguez, Mrs Downes, Mrs Shabaya and 2/3S and Mrs Pope also dropped by! 

Once again thank you to everyone who could come by and make it such a great afternoon, and a massive congratulations to our stage 3 students!

What was your favourite presentation? What was the most interesting/ unique thing you learned? What was your favourite thing about doing Genius Hour?

Drama- A work in progress

Today we continued to work on our plays. 

The Kindergarten teachers are excited to have 6SL perform their plays early next term. 

We are still using our scripts but we are learning our lines so that next term we won't need scripts. 

Each week we are impressed with the dedication and creativity of the students. Keep it up! 

Mrs Gray & Mrs Downes