Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

After a really good night sleep amongst most campers we woke to a delicious breakfast including pancakes. We cleaned our rooms which took a very long time for some cabins …. not mentioning any names. We had one final play on the beach and had an early lunch so we could depart on time. After some final thank yous we left Waratah Bay at midday. We are expecting to be back at HT at around 3pm on the basketball court.

We have had an awesome camp but are looking forward to seeing our families + our comfortable beds.

Here is a couple of surfing videos from yesterday.

Today we were on camp enjoying a long walk along the beach (we were told it was 6km altogether). Whilst we were there we spent some time in the rockpools exploring lots of the little sea creatures that live there. We also surfed and had a safety brief where we learned how to use the lifesaver tubes.

It was amazing how fun so many of the activity groups were. Most students really enjoyed the flying fish giant swing, the nitro crossing challenge (not with real nitro), the low ropes course, beach volleyball and the treasure island challenge.

We will always remember these moments but are also looking forward to coming back home soon to see our families.

We will send through one more blog post before we return back to HT tomorrow.

Hi everyone.

We have arrived to a beautiful day and a lovely camp site.

Our journey was good particularly watching the movies on bus. We stopped off at Coal Creek for a break and bite to eat. On arriving at camp we had lunch, sorted out a cabin groups and organised our activity groups.

This afternoon we completing some activities including the giant swing, obstacle course and surfing.

We will send another post through later on to update everyone of our day.

Here are a few happy snaps from camp …..

Today Alan Tudge (the Federal Member for Aston) came to visit HT this morning to talk to the senior school about his role in government. This was a great insight for us as we will be beginning a new inquiry topic ‘government’ after camp.

After many months waiting the year 6 leadership roles were finally given out at Assembly last Friday. There are eight different roles, which are Liturgy Leaders, Art Leaders,  Learning Leaders, Environment Leaders, Health Leaders, Friendship Leaders, Digitech Leaders, and last but not least, the School Leaders. Being a year 6 leader is a great way of learning about how to be responsible and sharing our expertise around the school. We are all really looking forward to making 2019 a great year for everyone at HT.

Congratulations to all Year 6’s and hope that they have a good year ahead of them.

Here are the leaders of 2019 …..

Sport Leaders

Digitech Leaders

Friendship Leaders

Health, Fitness & Sport Leaders

Environment Leaders

Learning Leaders

Arts Leaders

Liturgy Leaders

On Tuesday all of the 5/6 level watched the movie Apollo 13 as part of our Inquiry topic for this term where we are learning about space. During the movie we all had to take notes and afterwards we had a quiz to see how well we listened and understood what was happening. We all were shocked when it looked like the 3 astronauts were not going to make it back to Earth.

Everyone enjoyed the movie and I think we all learned a lot about space and particularly about how difficult it is to be an astronaut.

On Monday the 16th of July the 5/6 students had a space incursion where we learnt about the planets and stars. We all went into a huge inflatable cave in the MPR that looked a bit like a jumping castle but it wasn’t for jumping on.

We learned that Jupiter has lots of moons and with some being named after Galileo Galilei who was the first to see them. We also learnt that the first planet that you will see outside at night is Mercury. It often appears just after 7 o’clock but Mercury will also be the first one to disappear out of the sky. There are many star formations to look out for in the sky such as the Scorpion and the Southern Cross. 

There have been many space missions to the moon but recently people have not been as interested in flying there. Now there is a new competition called Google Lunar X where space companies are trying to build up more interest in going into space again. Part of this competition is trying to make space travel more sustainable for the future.

Back To The Moon For Good is a video related to the Google Lunar X Prize.

 

Here is a video link that teaches more about this mission……

Back To The Moon For Good 

The 5/6 students have produced magnificent work about our topic this term, Sustainability. All of the 5/6 classes have been creating ‘Genius Hour’ projects where they can research, experiment, present and teach others about something they wanted to learn about. They could work in groups or independently.

Genius Hour sessions are full of questions, ideas, occasional road blocks and problem solving.

Beatriz Panlilio has kindly agreed to share her presentation that she made about ‘Climate Change’.

Well done to all 5/6s!