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Last Friday we arrived at chapel with lots of coins we had been collecting all week. Mrs Williams had special lines on the floor of the hall for each class. Our teacher carried our very full, very heavy ice-cream bucket full of coins, then she gave each of us a handful of coins to place on the line. All the other classes were also placing their coins down. It took many handfuls and lots of turns to get to the end of our bucket. Then the teachers had to measure the lines with a great big tape measure. Year 3M had the longest line of 32 metres, our line measured 20.5 metres. Kindy had half the number of children as some of the other classes, so Mrs Williams doubled their line. When she did that it was decided that it was a tie between Year 3M and Kindy. Congratulations to those two classes!!
Mrs Williams has counted all the money, we raised $1150 to help the Projek Bali Kids. When we include the money from the Senior School we raised over $3,700 altogether.
We hope this will help them to purchase books and school supplies.
Thanks to all those who organised this fun activity!

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On Wednesday 4th April the Junior School had a fun Bandaged Bear Day, run by house captains and teachers in the yellow house. We arrived at school with our teddies, who were carefully bandaged, and found the whole Junior School was decorated with yellow streamers and balloons. Some of us purchased a little’Bandaged Bear’ from the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. At lunch time we took our own teddies out to eat with us and after we had eaten it was time for the competitions……
smallest teddy..
largest teddy..
most bandaged teddy..
Prizes were awarded and our friends cheered and clapped.
We had such a great day, and raised over $700 for the Children’s Hospital!
Cant wait for the next house fun day, wonder which one it will be???
Happy Holidays… Happy Easter !

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For the last 3 days of school we had fun completing an Easter booklet. But the best part was we were able to do EASTER COOKING. Mrs Weir and Mrs Hollis helped us to measure the ingredients carefully. We had to follow a recipe – a Procedure – and mix, and mix, and mix some more. We were given biscuits and spread coloured icing on them and then……….. we could choose lots of different lollies to decorate them with… yummmmmmm! We made 4 biscuits each and were able to eat 1 at morning tea, we took the rest home. Mrs Hollis thinks they were probably all eaten in the car on the way home..! What do you think ???

Today we turned off computers, lights, fans and the smartboard to observe ‘Earth Hour’ from 8.30am – 10.30am. So we had ‘Earth Hour’ for 2 hours!! It was fun and quite dark in our classroom, we moved some desks to get more sunlight and some of us worked outside with Mrs Smith. In today’s digital society we recoil in horror at the thought of having no electricity. But ‘Earth Hour’ Day (31st March), the largest environmental event in history, reminds us that switching off can be a good thing, we are helping to look after our world. So on Saturday night have a nice candlelight dinner and play cards or a board game with your family, it’s fun!!
Make a stand in 2012 for climate issues –
The official Earth Hour Day website http://www.earthhour.org/

It was Harmony Day today, so Kindy and Year 1 worked together nicely.
We heard that Harmony means everyone in the world being kind to each other and getting along.
We each created our family to represent people from all over the world, to decorate the walls of the school.
And then….
…………we were lucky enough to have a talented student from Year 3 come down and teach us how to make origami cats and dogs.

Thank you girls we had so much fun learning about origami

Look at our cats and dogs we made!!

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WOW..!!! What a great view.
We had morning tea on the steps of the beautiful Opera House. Then went inside to listen to some beautiful music played by a small section of the strings section of the orchestra. They played music written by Vivaldi nearly 300 hundred years ago.. it was so beautiful!! We were very lucky to have Michael from the Opera House who explained about the four seasons- Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter and what the music was meaning. A big tree helped to show us how the seasons changed. We had to help Michael sweep away the leaves in Autumn, our fingers were rain drops falling in Winter, in Spring we were Sunflowers sprouting and growing, and in Summer we watched him picnic at the beach.
Do you know what country Vivaldi came from?
Can you remember Vivaldi’s first name?
Thank you Kindy and Year 2 for coming with us, we had a great day!

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