Great Fact Finding & Information Pictures

With Year4 on excursion in Sydney, the guided reading group did some independent work writing information reports, amazing facts and labelled pictures. The results were impressive. Well done Stage 3 students.

How gems are created - Madaline

Sharks -Liam

Sailing craft - Holly

Facts about butterflies and World War 1- Brianna & Brad

Science Pictures - Creating a Circuit

Excellent... it works!

Working together to solve the problem.

Amazed that science actually makes sense.

Sir Donald Bradman

Sir Donald Bradman was born August 27 1908 and died on February 25 2001. Bradman was an Australian cricket player who is universally regarded as the greatest cricket player of all time and one of Australia's greatest popular heroes.

Born in Cootamundra, but raised in Bowral, Bradman noted for his obsessive practice, often hitting a ball repeatedly against a wall using only a cricket stump. After a brief time with tennis he dedicated himself to cricket.

He broke scoring records for both first class and test cricket, his highest international score [334] still standing as the highest ever test score by an Australian.

People that study sports, say thatBradman dominated his sport of cricket more than Wayne Rooney, Travis Pastrana, Chad Reed and Darren Lockyer.

By Joshua

How Does Solar Power Work?

Have you thought about those black panels you see on rooftops across the neighbourhood? What are they and what do they do? What the video below and you can be an expert on solar energy.

Amazing Electricity Challenge

Are you enjoying learning about electricity? If so, then take the challenge. We have 3 P's for students who can make their own electric motor built at home. (That works!)  Watch the video above and enjoy the challenge.

Mary MacKillop - Virtual Museum Report

Saint Mary of the Cross

Mary Helen MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on 15 January 1842. She was educated at private schools and by her father. Mary started work at the age of fourteen as a clerk in Melbourne and later to provide for her needy family.


In 1867 Mary became the first Sister, and Mother Superior, of the newly formed Order of the Sisters of St Joseph. By the end of 1869 more than seventy Sisters were educating children at twenty-one schools in Adelaide and the country. Mary and her Josephites were also involved with an orphanage. By 1877 it operated more than forty schools in and around Adelaide, with many others in Queensland and New South Wales.

On 17 October 2010 Mary MacKillop was declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVIand is now known as Saint Mary of the Cross.

By Olivia

Virtual Museum Highlighted Great Australian - Fred Hollows

 

Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows was an Australian eye surgeon he was born in 1929 and died in 1993. He  was however, born in New Zealand.

 

Fred  had thoughts about becoming a missionary, but didn’t and became an eye surgeon. Five years after he became an eye doctor, he was promoted to head of the of eye department at Sydney Hospital.

 

Fred believed that everyone had a right to see the world they where living in. He also discovered that many aboriginal community’s diseases were due to their living conditions. One of the greatest things he ever did was launch a national attack on eye diseases.

Fred inspired many doctors to join his cause and many others volunteered.

In the year 1980 he was going all around the world helping people regain there eye sight.

 

In his campaign to help indigenous Australians reclaim thier eyesight, he used up 10,000 pairs of glasses, cured 30,000 people and four hundred and fifty six communities were visited. He was given the nickname ‘wild colonial boy’. He has cured 62,000 aboriginals.

By Daniel