Hunting Seals

Over the last 10 years people have been killing seals for food and clothing especially the pups. The pups are endangered from the hunters killing them. They then skin them and then send the skins to a factory and then being made into nice woolly clothes. The adult seals are being killed mostly for their meat. If this continues the seals will become extinct.

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MS Read-a-thon

This month is the month of the MS Read-a-thon. We will be reading books and raising money for the people with Multiple Sclerosis. We have to get sponsers to donate the money to us. We got two new books from the man that gave us a talk about MS.

Athletics Carnival

At the athletics carnival we did tug-o-war and it was very fun.

Year 3 Asembly

We had an asembly last week.We were in p.js and we did a p.e dance with Miss Cook.

Our Wetlands Excursion

Kinder and Year One went to the Wetlands on a bus. We went to the theatre and Doc talked about what we might see that day. We had morning tea after the theatre. After morning tea we had some activities. The activities were called dipnetting and canoeing. My class went into a classroom where there were microscopes, a TV scope, puppets and tweezers to make a nest. There was a bit of snake skin as well. Morgan and I got cameras.

(A recount by Thomas)

Matthew Poulsen Learning Center Opening

On the 26th May we celebrated because it was the Opening of the Matthew Poulsen Learning Centre. We had a liturgy and some people did some readings. I had to make a speech about what it means to me to be a student a St Patrick's Lochinvar. I talked about learning and I said a little about Matt. The liturgy was very respectful and the chior was great at singing the songs.

Making A Site for Antarctica

In Term 2 we have been learning about Antarctica in HSIE.
So we decided to make a site about Antarctica in our year 5 lab time.
We had to make the Account and then make the site.
We have to put infomation in our own words instead of copying from the internet and taking credit for the work other people have done.
Some of the things we have to write about are:
Discovery
Douglas Mawson
Antarctica Bases
General Issues

Year 5 loved making the Antarctica Site
IT WAS LOTS OF FUN!!!!!!!

Our School Athletics Carnival

The school carnival was great! The whole school cheered like mad. I came third in 2 RACES! Some people even got 5 or 6 ribbons! We did marching as well. Gordon won the marching and Kendal won the whole thing and Paterson won tug-o-war. If you're wondering what team I'm in, I'm in LAWSON !

The New Play Equipment

At our school we have recently got new play equipment

and it is big and colourful.There are heaps of different bits

and pieces on there. There are the monkey bars, the spider

web, the lillypads, the sit up benches, the rock climbing

wall, the tyres wall, the pull up bars, the parallel bars and

much more. Everyone at our school always plays on it and

everyone says it's lots of fun.

super constuctions

Last week, my teacher asked us to build prisms. We set off building!
First, we built a hexagonal prism. Other kids built a cube.

Next we built a triangular prism, pentagonal prism and an octagonal prism.

I love building and can't wait to build again next time.

Fitness and Fun

Students at St Patrick's are enjoying their daily exercise routine with Miss Alyce Cook.