Our Classes

3 July - Pottery Lesson

Each class recently took part in pottery lessons. Here Byron is making a caterpillar having just read 'The Hungry Caterpillar' story.

Senior students and a teacher making plates in their pottery session.

21 June - Adelaide Crows Visit

Recently we had 2 visits from the Adelaide Crows. They kindly ran a football clinic for our students. Here Bradley is learning how to handball through a target.

15 June - Craft Afternoon

Recently our Whole school had a special Arts and Crafts afternoon where many volunteers came to the school offering experiences in various arts activities. One of those activities was learning to write calligraphy. Another was food preperation of chocolate strawberries in floral arrangements.

15 June - Tomboys

Various aged students learning how to make tomboys during the Arts Afternoon

Wheelie Net Poems

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March 19 - That Science Guy

He then told us about 4 groups of musical instruments all based on vibrations.
The Idiophones where the whole instrument vibrates (like a bottle of water),
The Airophones where the air vibrates (like a flute or a clarinet),
The Membranophones where a membrane vibrates (like a drum)
The Chordophones where a string vibrates (like a guitar or violin)

He had lots of homemade musical instruments which were nothing like we had ever seen before!

David kept everyone enthralled with his entertaining style of presentation (as long as you didn't mind getting a little bit wet or being 'hit' by an Air Zooker!)
He ended the show with an outside display of whip-cracking which made a very loud noise. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the show.

David and Brianna conducting an experiment

Vibrations cause water to jump in the "Chinese Spitting Bowl'.

Swimming Carnival Results

Congratulations to all of our students for their participation and efforts in our school swimming carnival. Several students achieved new records for various events. (Some events have newly created records due to the commencement of individual year level races. Those names in bold have broken a previously held record for an event.)

They include:

• Keenan J: Yr 6 breaststroke, Freestyle and Butterfly.
  
• Hannah G: Yr 5 Butterfly and backstroke
  
• Riley J: Yr 5 Butterfly
  
• Zach L: Yr 7 Backstroke
  
• Dakota D: Yr 4 Breaststroke and backstroke
  
• Brenton C: Yr 4 Breaststroke and freestyle
  
• Patrick H: Yr 5 Breaststroke and freestyle
  
• Angie H: Yr 4 Freestyle
  
• Jye C: Yr 4 backstroke
  
• Tamara L: Yr 3 freestyle, backstroke
  
• Shaylee J: Yr 2 freestyle, kickboard
  
• Charlie H: Yr 2 freestyle
  
• Kristen M: Yr 1 Kickboard
  
• Darren L: Reception Kickboard
  
• Todd H: Yr 2 Kickboard
  
• Justin C: Yr 3 Backstroke
  

McCracken team was the overall highest point earning team, and Tolmer did very well throughout the day.

A big thankyou to Cass Lutze for doing a great job with swimming lessons and donating her own time to support our carnival and pre carnival after school practice. Your efforts are highly appreciated. Thanks also to Sonya Birkin for swimming instruction this year.

I would also like to congratulate those students who took part in the inter-school meet. They did very well against challenging competition from other schools. In particular, our youngest students (sub-junior) came 3rd out of the 6 schools represented.

I would like to thank all of the parents and extended families that attended both carnivals. Your support and encouragement of our students was very positive. In particular, those parents that volunteered as timers, BBQ cooks, transport for heavy equipment, shade structures etc were most appreciated at both carnivals.
Thankyou also to the staff who assisted with organisation and supervision at both carnivals and to the student team captains who assisted in their house bays.

Congratulations to Keenan and Riley J who have been selected to represent our SAPSASA district in the State Swimming Competitions.