Wangaratta Primary School

Camp adventure

STUDENTS in year 5/6 kicked off the last week of term two with a school camp to Upper Plenty Conference Centre near Whittlesea.

Students, staff and parent helpers had blast of a time and although cold, the rain held off as students enjoyed an array of activities from horse riding, laser tag in the bush, tube sliding, camp cooking, rock climbing, geocaching, team building challenges and archery.

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Carraragarmungee Primary School

Play and learn

STUDENTS have been enjoying play-based learning.

They were exploring patterns, shape and developing social skills, such as sharing, help-seeking and friendship-building.

We are very proud of their creations and development of social norms.

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Wangaratta West Primary School

All adding up

AFTER a two week school holiday break, grade one students were excited to get back to learning in their classroom.

They are currently learning how to skip count in maths.

The students applied their skip counting knowledge to create hopscotches, counting by 2s, 5s or 10s.

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Appin Park Primary School

Earn and learn

YEAR 5/6 students are learning about the real world, undertaking an Earn and Learn quest.

Students must write application letters to apply for either government jobs, such as deputy mayor or treasurer, or bank manager, bank teller or resources minister; or to have the opportunity to run their own business, such as a sport stores, hardware, electrical and toy stores, a pet shop, a cinema and clothing and jewellery stores.

Students will participate in interview settings and rent space in the room (and pay for that privilege).

Some students have paid a higher rental price for a well sought after location, but will they have enough to pay for insurances, or will they risk a catastrophe happening?

Income and deductions will be a focus for all students and keeping a record of their own bank account.

The challenge is for the students to understand what is ahead of them, how to manage their own money, spending wisely and saving what they can.

There are potentially some young entrepreneurs in the making.

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Quiz questions

1. True or false? Hippopotamuses have a special, red coloured sweat that acts as a sunscreen.

2. What is a rain shadow? Is it a) the darkness when storm-clouds pass across the Sun, b) an area of dry land downwind of a mountain or c) a secondary rain shower triggered by an earlier heavy storm?

3. What kind of scientist would study a gluon?

4. Which of the following is a bromeliad? Is it a) a bat, b) a pineapple, c) a butterfly or d) a piece of coal?

5. How many feet does a mussel have?

Quiz answers

1. True! Scientists collected and analysed a red secretion from hippopotamus skin and found the ‘sweat’ may act as a sunscreen, as well as an antibiotic.

2. b) A rain shadow is an area of dry land downwind of a mountain. For example, the Gobi Desert is in the rain shadow of the Himalayas.

3. Physicists study gluons. Gluons are tiny particles that are part of the protons and neutrons inside atoms.

4. b) Pineapples are bromeliads. The bromeliads are a family of flowering plants native to the Americas.

5. Mussels have one foot. They use their single foot to push themselves around and to produce ‘mussel glue’, which helps keep the mussel to stay in the one spot.