POETRY LAND – ASSEMBLY ITEM

We’re about to take an exciting trip to poetry land,

However, we realise that this has not been well planned.

Buckle your seat belts and enjoy the view,

We’re going to a unique place and we’re taking you.

Now poetry land is such a special place,

It’s astounding, it’s astonishing, it’s really quite ace.

This is the opening verse to Room 22’s Poetry themed assembly extravaganza, which we performed on the 17^th of October 2014, the first assembly of the term. Topics for the assembly were in full flow, with everything from superhero skits to commemorate our work at Leeming to the extremely creative idea of singing pop music in different languages, but the topic that prevailed was the ‘Welcome to Poetry Land.’ Which categorised our work on poetry, from the simple aspects of rhyme to the trickier personification, imagery and vocabulary. However, our assembly was still lacking the ‘creative touch’ used to make our assembly special, so we came up with something else- we decided we would do the assembly IN RHYME! This seemed like a difficult task at first, but we were able to get into groups deciding on what topic we wanted to do and write some very sensational poetry to serve as the script for our assembly. The plot of our assembly follows the poetry journey of a boy named Peng as he learns each aspect of poetry- from writing his first rhyme to mastering the difficult aspects of vocabulary. Along the way, we were also secretly teaching the audience all about writing great poems- while rhyming all the way! Congratulations to Room 22 on a truly fantastic assembly- we should be so proud!

- Bella

In just week one of term number four,

Room 22 dropped jaws to the floor.

Putting on a play of rhyming grandeur,

With every student acting totally mature.

Delivered in rhyme, and full of fun,

The audience sat still until it was done.

In the planning, everyone had a say,

As it slowly formed, much like clay.

All about poetry, as I’m sure you know,

Nice and smooth, not taut like a bow.

Following the path of a lad named Peng,

You know, that kid with the last name Sheng.

Packed with wisdom about poetry,

And completely serious, well, mostly.

Teaching you imagery, rhyme as well,

Fortunately; Peng caught on just swell.

- Sean

TERM 4, WEEK 1 UPDATE

School resumes for students on Tuesday 14^th October. I hope you all have enjoyed the break and have made the most of your holidays. Term 4 will be super busy as we have Dance (please hand in your permission slips and money by Wednesday 15^th October), Swimming, Camp, our Assembly Item (Friday 17^th October), a new Science unit on Physical and Chemical change, a novel study, the DRLC Portfolio presentations, Graduation and much, much more. It will be a blast.

SCHOOL REVIEW

Furthermore, I am proud to announce that Wattle Grove Primary has been shortlisted as one of four finalists for the 2014 School of the Year. It is a wonderful honour and we share it with three other schools. Thank you to parents and students who have helped Wattle Grove Primary achieve this commendation. We have quite a busy start to the year as both School Review and Education Award members will be visiting our school. 

KALGOORLIE CAMP

In Week 3 of Term 4, the Year 7 students will be going on camp to Kalgoorlie. We will be catching the Prospector train to travel to Kalgoorlie. We will be staying in Kalgoorlie for one school week. We are all extremely excited about the camp and just can’t wait!!!  On camp, the excursions, activities and attractions we will see are:

·         KCGM Superpit Viewing  Platform

·         Mt. Charlotte Reservoir

·         Royal Flying Doctor Service

·         Weather Bureau

·         Hammond Park

·         WA Museum Kalgoorlie-Boulder

·         Hannon’s North Tourist Mine

·         Bush Two Up

·         Loop Line Museum

·         Lake Douglas

·         Coolgardie Tour

·         Coolgardie Cemetery

·         Goldfields Oasis

·         KCGM Mine Tour

All forms should have been returned to the class by now.

- By Jessica

WATTLE DAY WALK

On the 1^st September, Room 22 teamed up with their spectacular buddy class, Room 17, to spread the joy of Wattle Day around our neighbourhood, by delivering ‘school-made’ letters.

 

Room 22 worked hard on their Wattle Day cards, ensuring perfection to the smallest detail. Our cards were cleverly fitted with a brush, which was painted gold and green to resemble a Wattle Tree. Inside were our own poems which we wrote ourselves, along with a short message explaining the meaning of Wattle Day.

Room 17 created their own cards with their beautiful handwriting encased in a green card with a hand-drawn cover.

So, on Wattle Day, Room 22 and Room 16 split into two groups, one led by Mrs.Munro (the awesome Room 16 teacher) and the other led by Mr.Petch (Room 22’s amazing teacher). We were also joined by four boys from Mr.Sherlock’s class, Room 15, who joined us for the week whilst Mr.Sherlock went with the year 6’s to camp.

It was a spectacular morning of delivering letters, finished off by an early morning recess. Overall, it was a remarkable experience and lots of fun.

- Rhian

 

MATHEMATICS AT LEEMING

Every Tuesday, we go to Leeming Senior High School to engage in a Maths and English extension course. There is one word to describe the Maths program: Challenging!

Our teacher, Mr Fung, has set us some very challenging tasks this term. At the end of last term and the beginning of this term we have discussed the best ways to construct a ‘Mineral Oil PC’, which is basically a computer submerged into paraffin or mineral oil. We had a hard time trying to work out ways to improve the Mineral oil PC, and finally, we had to submerge it in mineral oil whilst taking great care due to the properties of the liquid. We had a great time!

Next, we started to work on geometrical mathematics. This means that we had to work with shapes and drawings. It was very challenging, and we learnt so much. We completed questions on oblique and isometric drawings: oblique meaning that a one whole face of a figure must be shown, while isometric is like a point of view from a corner, due to the unique pattern of the 30° parallel lines.

This week, we learnt about a unique puzzle: the Soma Cube! The Soma Cube is a puzzle of seven pieces that we had to put together to make a 3X3X3 cube. We even made other shapes, like a chair, a well, a tunnel and even a castle! It was challenging, as I said before, but we had such a fun time!

-Peng

THE GOLDFIELDS

Get your tools ready, because we’re going to the goldfields. Yes that’s right. Room 22, are currently learning about the Goldfields for our camp to Kalgoorlie in Term 4. So far in our journey we have learnt about when and who founded the goldfields. Paddy Hannan discovered it and later reported discovering 8 pounds of gold nuggets to the mining warden in Coolgardie, and within a matter of days 700 gold diggers were frantically pegging out mining claims around Kalgoorlie. By 1903, Kalgoorlie’s mining had really started booming, the town boasted a population of 30,000, along with 93 hotels and 8 breweries. On our camp to Kalgoorlie we will be visiting a museum on how the mining started booming and also get to go digging for our own gold! Isn’t that amazing? Furthermore, we’ll be learning about the early days of the Goldfields and we will have the opportunity to explore lots of different towns that are now nothing but spooky deserted ghost towns.

- By Lachlan