All students have been designing, creating, sharing and evaluating something for our Maker Faire in Technologies. The name ‘Maker Faire’ is an old spelling – we no longer put an ‘e’ on fair. It also comes from the french word ‘faire’ which means ‘to make’ or ‘to do’. Each student had the opportunity to improve on a skill or piece of work from their Technologies learning this year and display it for a week. There was a huge variety – we could not fit everything into the Maker Space, so we had to use some of the library as well!

Students from 2M have been doing some research and realised that there is a problem with our Australian currency. Everything costs something and 99 cents, but there is no 99 cent coin, so they have been designing their own coins! Students shared their learning at the 3D printing showcase in the showground on Monday. We received a lot of positive feedback around the quality of work and depth of thinking from our students. Well done!

Check out this experiment 2M did with Merrilyn…

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Wow what a short but action packed sports day we had this year. Congratulations to Aqua for winning the day and well done to each team for such great team spirit. Even though the weather was challenging our community pulled together and made the day a great success.

By Emma Hayden
In weeks six and seven, classes with year levels from Reception to Year Five spent two of their school lessons each day swimming at the Unley Swimming Pool for one week. The instructors taught orderly lessons to every class. We were taught about safety in the water and attempted to save the other people in our class in pretend rescues. We also learnt different kinds of strokes and how to put on a life jacket in and out of the water.
At the end of the week, the Year Threes, Fours and Fives tackled an underwater obstacle course and created a well working whirl pool, while the others had a water dance party. I enjoyed swimming week and hope that everyone else did as well.

Check out the fabulous photographs from Harmony Day!

‘What is energy?’
This term in science we are learning about energy. On Monday Liam came in and taught us about circuits with the Makey Makey sets. The Makey Makey sets are circuit boards that are powered by electricity through the computer. They can connect with online apps to play games or even play the piano. Some of us made bongo drums using aluminium foil, toilet paper rolls and
alligator clips. Others made game controllers using graphite and paper. We are also looking at conduction of electricity through a variety of materials. With Ms Murch we discussed the inquiry question ‘What is energy’. We watched clips about it and sat in groups to convey our ideas. We also brought up the topic of renewable and recycled energy. The class talked about what may happen when fossil fuels run out and different ways that we could solve the problem. Over the next few weeks we will produce our own pitch about the pros and cons of renewable energy.
By Patrick Everingham, Skye Staines and Diane Toole

Mr Hunt provokes some serious reflection about our significance in History!

Ms Toole and Bec Anderson have been teaching students in 11C all about electrical circuits. Looks like fun…

Music is fun! What a great time we had today singing and dancing along with the band. Ms Murch even knew two tunes, The Peppermint Twist and Sweet Child of Mine. Thank you Katie for organising such an engaging, interactive music session for us all.