Appin Park Primary School Celebrating in style Foundation students celebrated their first 100 days of learning last week. Important milestones are to be celebrated, and the students did it in style; some dressing up as very elderly people, others coming as wizards and fairies, ready to dispense 100 magical wishes to everyone. The first term can be challenging for all new students, settling into new routines, forging new connections and friendships, and the beginning of learning so much information to set them up for a positive schooling experience for many years to come. It is always a pleasure to watch the young people grow in confidence, loving the learning that they are exposed to and developing an understanding of a sense of belonging to the school community. * Cathedral College Wangaratta Magical musical Students are excited for the upcoming production of Mamma Mia! After months of hard work, they are ready to take to the stage and sing and dance their way through this iconic musical. This year they are performing three shows on Friday, August 15 at 7pm and on Saturday, August 16 at 1pm and 7pm. There are still tickets available for purchase from the WPACC, so everyone is invited to come and watch the show come to life. * St Patrick's Primary School 100 days of school Year six student Max reports that Tuesday, 5 August was a particularly important day for foundation students at St Patrick’s, because they have reached the milestone of 100 days of schooling. He said it is an incredibly special achievement because they have all learnt so much and grown a lot, and foundation teachers are immensely proud of them. "The way we celebrated 100 days of schooling is all the foundation students dress as if they were 100 years old," he said. "The foundation students should be proud of the way they have conducted themselves to this point of the school year." * Moyhu Primary School Big 100 days The school's four amazing foundations students, Abbie,Penny, Ollie and Scarlett, recently celebrated a huge milestone: 100 days of school. The day was full of fun, laughter and learning, with the foundation students arriving dressed as 100-year-olds, complete with canes, glasses and grey hair. They looked fantastic and certainly embraced the theme with enthusiasm. To mark the occasion, the older students put the foundations to the test with a "100 Days Smarts Quiz" – a fun and friendly way to show just how much Abbie, Penny, Ollie and Scarlett have learned since starting school. From letters and numbers to classroom routines and friendships, the school's youngest learners have come so far in just 100 days, and the school community couldn’t be prouder. Congratulations to the fabulous foundation team and here's to the next 100 days. * Yarrunga Primary School Schools Tree Day Students planted a variety of native shrubs and small trees at school as part of Schools Tree Day on Friday, 25 July. Park Lane Nursery supported the initiative, donating about 250 of their self-grown tube stock to the school for planting in beds around the central playground. The activity will not only create habitat for native species and improve the school grounds but provide bush foods for use in the kitchen garden program. * QUIZ QUESTIONS: 1. Which of the following is the longest distance? Is it a) from the centre of the Sun to its edge, b) the centre of Earth to the Moon, or c) the centre of Saturn to the edge of its main rings? 2. What is a peachick? Is it a) a type of bean, b) a type of bird, c) a type of money, or d) a type of microscope? 3. Which of the following weighs more? Is it a) a bucket of gravel, b) a bucket of sand, or c) a bucket of mixed sand and gravel? 4. Only one of the following metals is on the periodic table, but which one? Is it a) steel, b) zinc, c) bronze, or d) brass? 5. Which of these big cat species is the heaviest? Is it a) the tiger, b) the lion, c) the jaguar, or d) the leopard? * QUIZ ANSWERS: 1. a) It’s almost 700,000 kilometres from the centre of the Sun to its edge. The Moon orbits about 380,000 kilometres from Earth, and Saturn’s rings reach about 140,000 kilometres from its centre. 2. b) A peachick is a young peacock or peahen. 3. c) A mixture of different sized particles is typically denser than ones that are the same size. 4. b) Zinc is element number 30 and has the symbol Zn. The other metals include more than one element. 5. a) The largest wild cat ever measured was a Bengal tiger, which weighed approximately 389 kilograms.
