CASTERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
IT HAS been a busy week of learning and celebration.
Our last week of term began with the juniors had a visit from the ambulance service as part of their exploration of the ‘people that help us’ theme.
After a tour of the ambulance, a sudden departure was required with sirens blazing up McPherson Street.
The following day the juniors came together to celebrate Easter with an activities afternoon.
Students enjoyed decorating eggs and cookies and making baskets and other Easter fun.
Thank you to Penny Farquharson for donating 45 hard-boiled eggs!
In Grade 4/5, students have been working on their persuasive genre in writing and their topic has been: ‘We need an end of term class party.’
Students were required to convince Miss Jackson and Mrs Brown in writing and then present their work in a ‘Ted Talk’ format.
They focused on ’Straw no More’ by Molly Steer as an inspiration for their own writing and Ted Talks.
After planning and finding a great deal of evidence to support their reasons, they wrote then typed their persuasive piece, then formed them into a Ted Talk.
Obviously, they were successful in convincing Miss Jackson and Mrs Brown and they all enjoyed homemade pizza in celebration at the party.
Thank you to Miss Jackson and Mrs Brown for your generosity in providing a class party yesterday for the students to reward their fantastic work.
This term the Grade 3/4/5 students have been coming together on a Friday for integrated studies.
To reinforce the notion that the food we eat is very multicultural and comes from different regions all over the world they concluded their focus on countries of the world with a tasting opportunity of foods from different regions.
Students had brainstormed lists of foods, which were then added to a tub.
Mrs Wombwell, Miss Jackson and I drew a food to make and share.
Today students enjoyed a taste of Spanakopita from Greece, Sushi from Japan and Pavlova from Australia.
Previously they had completed a power point on their chosen country and had built a model of a famous landmark form that country.
Also this term, as part of their students, the students have built a model of a house, based on a description from the book ‘Louise builds a House’, by Lousie Pfanner.
The kids have really enjoyed the opportunity to be creative and work in cross age groups.
Last hurrah for College’s sports duties
CASTERTON SECONDARY COLLEGE
FOR the last time, Casterton Secondary College hosted the Glenelg District Athletics Carnival on Friday, 24 March.
The day was a success with Island Park filled with cheers of support from all eight participating district schools.
Casterton students participated with sheer desire to win and great sportsmanship.
Those who weren’t participating provided support to fellow students competing and to staff on all events.
Congratulations to Dylan Munro and Riley Munro who took out their age group champion for the 15-year boys and 17-year boys respectively.
A big thank you goes out to the staff and students of Casterton Secondary College and a massive thank you to all the volunteers who took time out of their busy schedules to help at the athletics.
Without these people the day would not go ahead as smoothly as it does.
The overall winner of the grand aggregate was Hamilton College, taking it home with a small margin over Monivae College.
As previously mentioned, this is the last year that Casterton will be hosting the GD Athletics, as an organiser of this event in previous years, I would like to thank all previous sports coordinators: Fiona Taylor, Patrick Jenes, and Carina Barton.
Such a well-established program allowed me to refine such a process rather than create it from scratch.
A very special thank you goes to the volunteers from the past 18 years that have been giving up their time, year-in and year-out.
This has always been appreciated and is the reason why we have been able to host this event so successfully – thank you.
Merino happy host for visiting students
MERINO CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL
THE end of term one has arrived upon us incredibly quickly and as it draws to an end, we can only reflect on how lucky we have been to undertake most of this term without major disruptions and challenges.
It’s been very fortunate that most of our programs and events have unfolded as planned during the term – it’s been extremely jam packed!
Last week, Merino CS played host to Penshurst PS and took part in an afternoon of Science and STEM fun.
We love sharing lunch with them look forward to more learning opportunities together.
In the last week of school, the students spent some time in the garden preparing the beds for winter.
We have dug up all of the summer crops and are resting the garden beds and improving the soil for when we plant the next crop of veggies.
The students love planning and preparing the garden to plant veggies that they like to eat in the meals they cook each week.
A fantastic term one has seen some significant accomplishments, with our Foundation students beginning their schooling and settling into their learning spaces with their peers and the entire student group beginning their learning with rigour and intent and demonstrating outstanding improvement in all areas.
We look forward to all of the fabulous learning opportunities ahead in term two, such as our school camp and Taekwondo lessons!
How does our garden grow at Sacred Heart?
AFTER nearly a year, we’ve finally finished our Woolworths Junior Landcare project to create our Worm Composting Garden.
We have installed our new ’SubPod’ compost system into the new garden bed.
We’ve filled the garden with bee-attracting flowers and herbs such as alyssum, rosemary and thyme and local Indigenous ‘bush tucker” plants such as kalkhalo (native pigface) and native mint.
We had fun planning, creating, building and installing the SubPod worm composting system in a new garden bed with the generous grant we received from Woolworths Junior Landcare.
We are looking forward to reducing our food waste by feeding our food scraps to the worms so they create compost for us to grow great plants.
The students should be so proud of what they have achieved in the garden over the past few weeks.
Well done Green Thumbs!
