Leavers Shirts

In preparation for our long awaited 'Leavers Shirts' to arrive.  

Please bring a plastic bag to school with you on Monday.  

Also ensure your name is written on the bag with a sharpie.

Monday morning please give your plastic bag to Mrs Rolton!

NAIDOC Day Speakers

Calling all Room 5 Speakers

Three Students will be chosen from Hero Headquarters!

Are you interested in being a speaker at our up coming NAIDOC Day celebrations? 

If so by the end of today (Friday 25 June 2015) please submit an explanation in one 

paragraph, why you would be the best student to speak at this auspicious event.

No late entries will be excepted!

17 Years Of Age Is An Appropriate Age for War

I strongly suggest that 17 years of age is an appropriate age to go to war for Australia. 

Firstly, a lot of teenagers these days are more fit and agile. This means that on the battlefield, they have more chance of escaping fatalities and explosions.

Secondly, more of the younger teenagers now have more adrenalin in their system. They enjoy activities that involve risk or involve chance of death. A lot of Teens do a lot of things that include fitness, mentally and physically.

A lot of teenager plays games involved in FPS shooting games (First Person shooter) which makes you feels like you’re shooting a weapon. 7/10 People who play these games eventually want to join the Armed Forces. With the knowledge of map coordinates, guns, Strategy, reflex skills and commands shown throughout the levels in the game. It is sure to leave you with some Military education.

If you are 17, have some military skills and some agility, don’t be afraid to join the Armed Forces and have Blast! Even if you don’t go to war you will still be educated and have a good career ahead of you!

By Toby

Our Disastress Creek

''drip, drop, drip, drop'' that's the sound of rain drops dripping of the bridge railing falling into the creek. The grass is dirty and muddy, there are tadpoles underneath us in the puddles. There are sticks and leaves in the dips causing a blockage and a muddle. Hopefully soon the grass will be fresh and green again for playing in!

By Meg and Azaelia

The Rainforest

The Rainforest 

This rainforest is home to a lot of different plants and insects. 

I love finding out the secrets and different things in this rainforest.

  

By Leila and Rahyne

17 year olds should not be able to join the armed forces

I strongly believe that 17 years of age is definitely not an appropriate age to join the Armed Forces. My reasons for this is, that you won’t have a long life, you are not mentally prepared and there are lots of ways to get killed.

My first reason is that you will not have a long life. You aren’t as experienced as older Armed Forces personnel so you can die easily. Did you know that 92% of young Armed Forces personnel die in war and don’t have a long and happy life?

Next, at 17 you are not mentally ready. Imagine watching all of your friend’s die, that would be horrible! Don’t you think so? If you get back from war you won’t be the same person that you were before the war. You will be mentally and even physically altered.

My final reason is that if you go to war, there are lots of horrible ways to get killed. There are many gasses, grenades, mines, bombs, guns, bayonets, rats, frostbite and lots more! Being killed by any one of those things would be devastating! Don’t you agree?

In conclusion, 17 years of age is not an appropriate age to join the Armed Forces because you will not have a long life, you are not mentally ready and there are lots of horrible ways you could be killed. Does anyone really believe that 17 years is an appropriate age to join the Armed Forces?

 

                                                             By Natasha

You should not go to War at the Age of 17!

You should not go to War at the Age of 17!

I strongly believe that at the age of 17, you should not be able to join the army. You are not mentally or physically ready it could cause death!

Firstly, you are not mentally ready to go to war.You might think you are ready but you will find that you'd be very stressed. If you come home you will get nightmares and may even not be able to bring yourself to go outside of the house.

Secondly, you are not physically ready, you could die because you have to run from a bomb or gas. You might not be able to out run it and the next thing you know you are dead. Imagine the pain that would cause?

Finally, you could die and imagine what it would feel like to watch your friends and family die. It would be too big of a risk of death or injury. Would you be able to deal with the pain of watching the horror of the death of your close friends and family?

Therefore, you’re not mentally or physically ready to go to war. Imagine the pain you would cause your friends and family if you didn't come back. You should not be able to go to war at the age of 17.

By Leila

100 word challenge

''slam!'' that was the sound of Annabell closing the car door as she got out to discover her new mysterious house. Annabell had moved into a gigantic, old farm house with a herific paddock. She was very adventurous so she decided to go have a stroll at the end of the paddock. Annabell went skipping through the long green grass till she got to the end of the paddock. The grass made a dead stop and the grown was covered with dirt and leaves. There was a large, black, stone couch with a huge, green, beautiful, lush hedge behind it

 

Written By Meg  

Metric Conversions

King Henry's Story

Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived a king who loved chocolate milk. His name was King Henry.

Throughout his kingdom, King Henry made sure that all of the cows were fed great supplies of chocolate to continue to provide him with his beloved chocolate milk drink.

King Henry drank chocolate milk with his breakfast. He drank chocolate milk with his lunch. He drank chocolate milk with his dinner. He even drank chocolate milk for his bedtime snack. King Henry drank chocolate milk by the litres!

King Henry wanted all living creatures in his kingdom to enjoy chocolate milk as much as he enjoyed chocolate milk. However, a litre was not the best serving size for every creature. The Royal Carpenter was called for and the command was given for new serving vessels to be created to fit every creature in the kingdom.

For the creatures smaller than the king, the Royal Carpenter designed decilitres that were 1/10th the size of a litre, centilitres that were 1/100th the size of a litre, and millilitres that were 1/1000th the size of a litre. The millilitres were just right for the Royal Beetles and Bugs of the kingdom.

For the creatures greater than the king, the Royal Carpenter designed dekalitres that were 10 times the size of a litre, hectolitres that were 100 times the size of a litre, and kilolitres that were 1000 times the size of a litre. The kilolitres were just right for the Royal Giants of the kingdom.

The Royal Carpenter lined the vessels up in his workroom from largest to smallest to show the king. The king’s vessel was in the centre of the line, for the king was the centre of the kingdom. The vessels were arranged in the following order:

kilolitre hectolitre dekalitre litre decilitre centilitre millilitre

King Henry loved the new vessels that were designed larger and smaller than his own for all of the living creatures in his kingdom. The Royal Carpenter explained that the sizes increased and decreased from the king’s litre, the original unit of measurement, by multiples of ten. He explained how to convert between the sizes by multiplying by ten or dividing by ten.

Well, King Henry tragically died not long after that.  The cause of death was very unusual.... he died of drinking way too much chocolate milk.

From then on, all living creatures in the kingdom had no trouble remembering the order of the vessels.  They just thought to themselves:

King Henry Died Unexpectedly Drinking Chocolate Milk

kilo-  hecto-  deka-  [unit]  deci-  centi-  milli-

Since each step is ten times or one-tenth as much as the step on either side, we have:

1 kilometre = 10 hectometres = 100 dekametres = 1000 metres
                 = 10 000 decimetres = 100 000 centimetres = 1 000 000 millimetres

Alternatively, we have:

1 millilitre = 0.1 centilitres = 0.01 decilitres = 0.001 litres = 0.000 1 dekalitres
               = 0.000 01 hectolitres = 0.000 001 kilolitres

The point here is that you move from one prefix to another by moving the decimal point one place, filling in, as necessary, with zeroes. 

To move to a smaller unit (a unit with a prefix some number of places further to the right in the listing), you move the decimal place to the right that same number of places, and vice versa. 

Together with the prefix sentence ("King Henry..."), this makes conversion between the different metric sizes very simple.

National Sorry Day 2015

What does National Sorry Day mean to us... 




Making comparisons with The Rabbits written by John Marsden and illustrated by Shaun Tan with Australian History.