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LATEST NEWS The Earth Youth Conference 9/9/10

10 students from our grade went to the Earth Youth Conference to learn about the environment and what we can do to make our world more sustainable. Sarah went out the front to present our grades environmental story with some of the other environmental tacklers.

=We made Voki's in ICT this week 8/9/10 media type="custom" key="6852179"= media type="custom" key="6852221" =THE CHESS COMPETITION 7/9/10 = =CSIRO -FORENSIC SCIENCE VISIT 23/8/10 = At the incursion about forensics science we learnt how to match a suspect to a crime and we also did activities to help us solve the crime and find the suspect. Some of the activities were finding a finger print, matching tyre tracks, looking at blood splatters, creating a photo fit picture of a suspect, testing oil spills and different ink stamps. We had to keep records of what we found out. Another activity we did was looking at fibres, we had to find out whose fibres were on the glass and on the fence. We also did some chromatography which is separating the colours in ink to find out which suspect’s pen matched the evidence. The reason why we did the CSIRO incursion is because we are currently looking at Forensic science and the human body in class. We found out the criminal was Rodney Georgio after our grade had a discussion about all the evidence we collected and what it meant. Our grade got all the information right. The suspect’s names were Rodney Georgiou, Maria Crossman, Eric Smythe and Tracy Zammit. With the clues we uncovered there were two people that the clues pointed to. We were able to eliminate the other suspects because the clues discovered at the crime scene ruled them out. By Talisa, Mia
 * 6 boys from our class competed in the chess competition held at our school on Tuesday 7th September.**
 * The all did really well. Billy came 6th out of 70 students and recieved a High distinction**
 * Jacob 8th and Nicholas 14th received distinctions and Utku and Nikhil received credits.**
 * Craig came 44th and received a certificate of participation.**

FAMILY LIFE PROGRAM 18/8/10 The entire grade sixes learnt about family life, it was very interesting. We all learnt a lot about our bodies and we all had a laugh. It was good how we got to ask Shirley questions if we didn’t understand what she was talking about. She talked about birth, the reproductive system, going through puberty, what to do when you go through puberty and what changes are made in your life when you go through puberty. She also talked about hormones and how they work. She showed us posters that showed us about our body. She gave us cards to put in to groups which were male, female and both. Even though it was embarrassing we all learnt a lot. By Kelly, Maddie & Polly

Lalor North Secondary College Science Show 17/7/10
Grade 6’s went to GP1 and watched lots of experiments that were demonstrated by some students from Lalor North Secondary College. They had many extraordinary experiments to show us. One was called ‘Elephant’s Toothpaste’, another was ‘Genie in a bottle’, we made slime, there was disappearing ink on peoples clothes, changing colours in the beakers, vanishing water and many more brilliant wonders. I think that everyone really enjoyed the rocket experiment on the oval at the end because it was really entertaining and the rocket flew really high. I think that we were all satisfied with the results of the experiments. At the end all the grade 6’s went home with happy smiles on their faces. Helena & Roxanne



Mill Park Secondary College Science Lab Visit 6/8/10 Our Visit to the science lab at Mill Park Secondary College was very interesting. We enjoyed the way the secondary students talked to us about science. They talked to us about things like forensic science, how to make slime, animals science and electricity. With the forensic science we had to finger prints. We had to print each finger on a separate box on the page. They told us that no 2 people have the same finger prints. In the next group they showed us their live animals, there were 3 rats, 2 frogs, a fish and a lizard. We got to hold some of the rats named Shadow and Cupcake. The other rat was called Cookie. In another group we also got to make slime. First we had to put this liquid into P.V.A glue then we got to put food dye into it. Then we had to stir it quickly until the liquids turned into a semi solid. Once we finished making the slime we could play around with it. Our group found out that slime bounces and it was fun to make it bounce, but they told us to stop. Last of all we got to learn about electricity. We got to test out wires what objects to use that would turn on a light by making a circuit. The objects we used to see if we could make a circuit were things like metal, fabric, glass foil, wire, paper, icy pole stick and a straw. Polly, Kelly and Claire

GRADE 6 SWIMMING PROGRAM TERM 3

RIVER DETECTIVES PROGRAM 4/6/10 <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">

River detective’s is program where a man called Peter Grenfell from the Darebin River Committee comes out to school to tell us about our local rivers. He brought along a huge floor map to show us all the local rivers. He selected a few students to act out a role play about the river story. It told us how the river gets polluted and was fun. Next we went on a local excursion to Red Leap Reserve where we did a bunch of tests. All the students had fun doing three different activities, looking at water bugs, finding animal habitats and checking water temperatures and water levels. I was in the water testing group and we also checked if the weather was hot or cold or just in between, if it was cloudy or sunny, windy or no wind at all. We ran three different tests one was water levels and the other test was about air. Some of us got a little wet, but nothing serious. Another group went to find water bugs which were exactly what we did on the grade 6 __science__ camp. While the third group walk around the reserve looking for animal habitats. When we were done and ran out of time we got called together and gave an update on what we found and what we learnt. We all learnt extraordinary things that we will lock securely in our brains and we all had a lot of fun. By Maddison Judith Kinniburgh

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Grade 6 CAMP May 2010

Grade 6 camp was very fun! Some of the activities we did where the 18m high Giant Swing, the 250m long twin flying fox, Canoeing, Ponding, Archery, Penguin Parade, Ranger Talk, Team Rescue and Stadium Games. Every night we also watched a movie, the movies we watched were Coraline, G Force and The Wild. The people at camp where really nice so it made camp more enjoyable. Our favourite activity at camp was the giant swing and the twin flying fox even though they were both pretty high. The food at camp, was nice especially the chicken schnitzel YUM!! I think that everyone had fun in their cabins especially the ones that had a bit too much fun and had to do breakfast duty in the morning! (Wink, wink). We all had a wonderful time at Philip Island and we recommend that this has been the best camp so far. We are very proud of some people that were not so confident about going on the giant swing and going on the flying fox. They were very confident to have a go even though they were scared and we are very proud of their accomplishments. I have to say going up the ladder for the flying fox was pretty freaky even Mrs Ericson was nervous on the way up. By Talia, Bridgette and Samantha .T