science day

On the 24th March, Mitch showed us how to use electricity, hands on. Year 5 saw Mitch create electricity with a lemon, an old 5 cent coin and a nail. It showed how much energy was used. Amber and Bailey were an example of human electricity. Bailey touched Amber's nose and it worked but when Amber touched his pocket, it didn't work. Next Zac and Courtney had a go using static electricity on their heads and it worked on Courtney's hair but not on Zac's. Why! Courtney had hair spray on and Zac's hair was wet. Then he showed us the most powerful magnet in the world and it could hold a bowling ball. WE WERE AFRAID IT WOULD DROP ON US ALL! Then we had to make our own groups and there were different types of power forces around the room. When the show was finished WE WERE AMAZED BY THE POWER AND THE ELECTRICITY WAS IN THE AIR!

Easter Craft

In class we are doing a lot of Easter craft and in maths we have being doing sentences. It isfun.

Cross Country

On Friday, we are having a sports cross country carnival and my friends and I are all running in the same race. I will get very puffed.

Easter Raffle

We've been doing an Easter raffle. All the people in the SRC are selling Easter Raffle tickets.

Last term, St Patrick's School celebrated Catholic Schools Week . All the classes took it in turns to prepare a liturgy at the morning assembly. I liked all of them but Yr4's was the best.

Today, two ladies from the Maitland Mecury came to Year 4 to talk about justice because our topic this term is justice. Amelia, Saxon, Joshua, Zac, Joseph and I talked with them and told them what we have been learning. Once that was finished they took our photos and left.

We are going to be in the paper next Tuesday.

The New Playground Equipment

Today, the new playground equipment at our school was finished. There is climbing equipment and other fun things to do on it. What good timing for the miserable rain and weather! The students would have been able to play on it today but it rained and was too wet to go out. The students can't wait for the rain to stop!

Year 6 Young Leaders Day

On Wednesday the 25th of March the 4 school leaders went to the Therry Centre for a young leaders day. We had a special guest speaker and her name was Olivia Gollan, gold medal cyclist. We watched the movie, Lion King and we had to pick out the leadership qualities. We would like to thank Mr Treloar for organising the day.

Today, our school's Learning Centre is being used for the first time. It is going to be named the Matthew Poulsen Learning Centre in memory of a much loved student. The opening will be early next term and that's when it will be named after Matt.

Sport Trials

We have alot of people in our school including JONO in his state cricket trials. We have Eliza, Claire and Ashlee in the Polding soccer trials. Our school Cross Country is next week but I'm not sure it will be on because of this heavy rain. Our school athletics carnival is next term. That's all that is happening in out school for sport.