BMX Riding

Though out the year I have been lucky enough to see students in the class competing in soccer and netball. On Friday I was able to see another of our talented sports people compete, this time in BMX. This was only his second week competing and he put in a great effort and had a lot of fun in the process.  It was great seeing him power on and not give up. Well done A.N.

Telling Stories Through Dance

We have been looking at various types of art and their ability to tell stories. This week we have been looking at dance, specifically the Haka from the Maori culture. It is considered to be culturally offensive to perform the Haka without appreciation of the history and intention of the dance, and so we learnt about history of the Haka and the reasons why it is performed (which are many and varied) before giving it a go. We were surprised to learn both men and women perform the Haka however the way they do this differs slightly.

Then it was time to have a go at telling our own story and share a message we wanted to tell through dance. We only had a short while to practice and then some of us shared what we had come up with.



"We were going in the rugby grand final and we were really pumped. We were fighting all the people and kicking the ball into the goal".

This is a dance they came up with about their shared passion, cats.

This is about fighting with your friends.

This is about boys being stronger than girls

This is about anger and coming out the other-side of it.

This is about brother/sister relationships

Art Gallery

For our current unit of inquiry we went to the Art Gallery of South Australia to see the TARNANTHI exhibition and other Indigenous art. It is the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.

TARNANTHI, pronounced tar-nan-dee, is a Kaurna word from the traditional owners of the Adelaide Plains. It means to come forth or appear – like the sun and the first emergence of light, or a seed sprouting. For many cultures, first light signifies new beginnings.

Just Hanging Out

Spending Time With Our Buddie Class

The Crazy Pencil - By Ben Leach

The Crazy Pencil

One fine morning I woke up to find my pencil writing. Well, I have to admit it was pretty crazy so I ran to get my rubber. I through the rubber at my pencil. It hit it over but then it just went on writing.

So I went outside to kick the soccer ball. It was fun until the pencil came out and started following me . Into the bedroom... the kitchen and the living room!

Then I had to go to bed so I got into bed and put my pencil on my bedside table.

The next day I went bike riding. I did a jump and turned and looked right and there was my pencil riding a mini bike. If you wanted to know how it got that mini bike don't ask me. It looked very tired. I was thinking of carrying it but then I remembered the piece of chain I had with me so I hooked the chain onto my bike and then onto his bike. We rode all the way home and lived happily forever (until we died).

The End.

By Ben Leach (as part of his homework)