We are incredibly proud of Lily Jobson, who participated in the Regional stage of the Lions Junior Public Speaking Competition last Sunday. It has been my absolute pleasure to watch Lily’s journey from her first speech in the classroom, through the Beechworth level of the competition and finally to the Regional Competition this weekend. Lily competed in the year 3 & 4 section, where the topic for the speech was “ A place I would love to visit”. Lily chose Japan. I have seen Lily’s speech grow from a short 1 minute speech to a well-developed, clever 3 minute speech,
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Wednesday was a fun day with Reuben from Fingle-Sin coming in to work with our classes on cartooning. Reuben is a sculptor and comic artist from Apollo Bay. He talked with the students about his journey through school and his interest in comics as a kid, before showing photos of some of his sculptures. He even brought in one to show our students. This was followed by fun times as the students learnt some basics of drawing a cartoon face whilst giving Reuben weird and wonderful ideas for features to include as he drew. The sessions finished off with the
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Sadly, on the last day of Term 2, we lost an icon from our school yard… our Monkey Nut Tree (Canary Island Pine). With the recent wet weather, the tree simply toppled to the ground. Our students over many years and generations have collected the seeds, affectionately known as Monkey Nuts, from the cones of the tree to use as trading currency to play shops and various other games. We were happy to see the CFA use the fallen tree as they undertook their Chainsaw training. The respect shown to our beautiful tree was seen in this lovely post from
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On Tuesday the Grade 1 and 2 students went on an excursion to the Albury Library Museum. The students participated in three different activities. The Questacon exhibit allowed the students to explore different elements of science, use trial and error and problem solving skills. After this, we visited the Crossing Place Museum. Here we went on a quest to find something that caught our attention. We also learnt about objects that were used in the past and what we use now and how it has changed. Our final activity was exploring the library and learning about where the different types
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