Weekend Excitement
What a busy weekend! The Rio 2016 Olympics began with lots of colour and excitement. Did you see any of the Opening Ceremony? Have you watched any of the events yet? I have some Olympic challenge...
View ArticleNAIDOC Award: to a Baysider
It’s always lovely when someone receives special recognition for their hard work. Today we saw Fiona, one of our Grade 2 Bayside Learners, receive a special NAIDOC Week award. It was presented at a...
View ArticleLearn to Swim
For the last two weeks our Grade 3s have been going to Learn to Swim every day at the Hobart Aquatic Centre. We went to Learn to Swim on a bus. We left after recess and it took us half an hour to be at...
View ArticleRSPCA cup cake fundraiser
On Monday 15th August our school held a cup cake morning tea to raise money for the RSPCA. Some kids brought cup cakes to sell and some kids brought money to buy cup cakes and some kids did both. Some...
View ArticleMeasurement work
We have been learning about measurement in 2-3 M. After we had worked on our measurement booklet, our teacher gave us a little challenge. We were given an A4 piece of paper, and in pairs we had to make...
View ArticleLoving Class Music
It’s Thomas and Jules here. It’s been busy this week. This week my class has been learning lots of things and a song. Our music teacher is the wonderful Mrs Wolfe. In music we have been learning...
View ArticleBook Week 2016 is here!
Australia’s annual Book Week has arrived! The Children’s Book Council of Australia promote Book Week each year, deciding on a theme and selecting the shortlisted books in different categories before...
View ArticleTime with our buddies
Each of our primary classes has an early childhood buddy class. We get together to do activities like reading, origami, a maths challenge or artwork, either weekly or fortnightly. Today it was time to...
View ArticleGetting to know Tasmania’s towns, lakes and cities
We have been doing a jigsaw puzzle in class with a friend. It is the Tasmanian map. It takes 20 minutes roughly to do the map. Some people did the puzzle together. There are lakes, towns, cities,...
View ArticleFeathers, Fur or Leaves
In our class we have been working on our science unit. It is called Feathers, Fur or leaves. We went on a nature walk and had to pick up 2 objects to put on our science table. Then we had to find out...
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