Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

Hi everyone.

Last week the Year 3’s and 5’s completed the Naplan tests for writing,reading and maths. Naplan is a group of tests completed by all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 throughout Australia.

Some students found these tests hard because we needed to answer lots of questions but others really enjoyed doing them. In writing we wrote about our ‘Big Idea’ and we only had 40 minutes to finish it in. In the reading test we had to read some different passages and answer questions about what we read and this time we only had 5o minutes to do the test. In Maths we also did a 50 minutes test about lots of the topics we have been learning about in Maths this year and last.

We are all now happy because we don’t have to worry about Naplan tests until we are in Year 7. We get our results for these tests in August.

This year the 5/6’s are lucky enough to be able to play table tennis in the Great Space. The students in 5/6 D are having a ball in playing table tennis against each other at lunch time. We also sometimes get to play against the teachers. Maybe one day we can have a  championship against the teachers. I bet the students would win!

This term in the 5/6 level we have been fundraising for an organisation called Solar Buddy. You fundraise money and get sent a solar light kit to build. These lights then get sent to the Solar Buddy people and then sent to the people that are living in energy poverty. People in places like Uganda, Ghana, The Gambia, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, India and more. At this time we have raised over$700. Groups have raised money by holding various stalls and activities such as a fidget spinner raffle, selling slime, guessing how many lollies are in the jar, helping teachers wash cars, selling baked goods and much more.

Unfortunately, because we were working raising money we did not take any photos of us in action.

Stay tuned for a final figure of how much we raised.

Well done 5/6’s on your wonderful efforts throughout our fundraising project!

The 5/6 students began learning about our new Ozobots which we have purchased thanks to a generous donation from our Parents Association. An Ozobot is a small robot that can be programmed to do different actions such as go faster, turn left or change colour according to the commands (or codes) the user gives them.

Here is a picture of an Ozobot.

Today the students drew coloured lines into codes that they hoped moved the Ozobots in a certain ways.

Here is the 5/6 students hard at work.

Many groups had success with their Ozobots and more importantly learnt lots of new skills that they will use in future lessons.

Here is one successful attempt.

Last week 5/6s were busy studying the etymology of words. They were all engaged looking into etymology of their names and any other words of their choice.

What a great activity – engaging and fun learning!

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=holiday

The Year 5/6 students have just returned from Waratah Beach Camp. Read to find out about some of the activities they have done.

Jayden Grima “I really enjoyed camp because we all got a turn on everything.”

Cooper Barron “We all experienced a wonderful time by taking part in the activities. We can’t wait to do it again!”

Amy Mitcham “We all enjoyed our fun experiences. I especially loved all of the use of teamwork that was involved in our fun risk-taking activities.”

Joshua Hart “5\6 camp was a blast of a time, we did a lot of fun activities”.

Sienna Mallia “Everyone had so much fun on camp and loved looking for soldier crabs.”

Natalie Apostolopoulos “Camp was such an enjoyable experience especially since we were all together.”

Claudia Dell’Orso “We all had so much fun, it’s a good experience for everyone because you learn lots of new things, like how to surf.”

Michael Comber “Everyone had lots of fun and was super tired at the end.”

Julius Palmer “The food was really good and the staff were really nice.”