Art Gallery and Turanga

 We had a fabulous day at the Art Gallery and Turanga on Tuesday learning about educational minecraft and art appreciation. Check out some amazing Pacific prints created by R14 below.

R14 sitting on the main steps of Turanga

Shakespeare with Year 6s!

 This morning our Year 6s were pushed incredibly hard when learning about the patterns involved in Shakespeare's sonnets. We learnt that they had to have 14 lines, each line has 10 syllables and were also written in an Iambic Pentameter rhythm that has feet! We worked really hard bouncing ideas off each other to try to make sure each line of our shared poem had 10 syllables - this was the hardest - Simone and Rosa got particularly frustrated! But we didn't give up and we wrote this together! Aren't we amazing?

A seed of life is planted in a void

Fragile, innocent, not knowing dangers

Emerging from a cocoon of darkness

A shield is broken, letting the light in

Sprouting petals of colour and beauty

Spreading happiness and joy to the world.

But deep inside a longing grows for more

Joy replaced and greed is released throughout

Nothing stands in its way as it terminates

Emotions wither and fear consumes all

Rapidly increasing, everything wilts

Until all is lost and darkness takes over

A loud cacophony of emptiness

Is silenced by the conductor of death.

Celebration of Learning

A huge thank you to all the parents, grandparents and friends who came to our celebration of learning yesterday. Your children loved sharing their planets, their writing, their poetry and their art with you. We appreciate your continued support of their learning this term, we know you are proud of them and they are proud of themselves.

Enjoy your holidays,

Tamara and Alice.

Lambs and an Army Band!

 What an exciting morning for Nav 2 with the visiting NZ Army band, as well as the latest lambs from the Fergusons!

Tom enjoyed feeding eventually!

Look at Sam's smile!

The lambs were definitely hungry for Hugh's bottle

Marshall had to learn to hold the bottle high

Jo led one around on a lead and Annabel confidently picked it up

Brodey and Felicity enjoyed the lambs' company

Living Springs Camp

 Wow, what an amazing three days together at Living Springs! From the walk in, to the recreation activities, to the bush walk, low ropes and initiative activities, to the Farm Park, these children could not have been any better. The way they supported each other, made the most of every opportunity and worked with anyone made us incredibly proud.

Thank you for sharing with us, you guys rock!

Ms Saxon and Miss Perry.

Year 6 Poets

 Our Year 6s had a huge 'aha' moment this morning when they realised that their writing was as great as the people they so admired in their class last year! Check out the videos below as proof.

Planets Coming to Life

 We have seen some amazing collaborative skills in creating our habitable planets, we can't wait to share them with our families. Samuel made a list for his group today of all the tasks that needed to be done towards completion, he then talked with his group members and assigned tasks. What great learning!

Check out some of the mountains, volcanoes, shelters, trees and other things being attached to our planets.

Maddox and Hugo have worked really hard on their oddly shaped planet

These mountains and volcanoes are looking great

Simone's group's township is coming together

This group's inhabitants will live inside domes

This group has worked really hard to attach their first shelter

Isla is attaching an asteroid!

Greer and Gabriela have made trees and tree houses