Term 1, Week 10 Writing: Creative Writing

Room 12 has been working on varying the start of our sentences.

There are seven different kinds of sentences in this writing.
See if you can spot all of them!

The spooky door (by Scarlett Ion)

I hadn’t seen the door before. It wasn’t there last night. Cautiously, I turned the handle. When I opened the door, I fainted. Then I woke back up. I walked in and it was like a nightmare shining through my eye. I could see lots of killer clowns hunting through my soul. They were like my mum and dad being really angry at me. Suddenly I heard my brother yelling “look out Scarlett! and I fell. I fell into a deep hole. It was like my room but floating somewhere. When I landed I saw my cat. I said hi but he hissed back at me. I wondered why and then he looked back and he had no eyes left in his eye socket.....

- The Writing Team (Scarlett, Sophie L & Georgia)

Term 1, Week 10 Interschool Sports: Swimming

This week many of our students competed in the Interschool Swimming Competition and we are very proud of our Champions - Georgia, Jessica and Ava. We came up with some questions and interviewed each of them.

Here are the questions and answers.

1. What places did you come? Georgia came 6th backstroke, Jessica came 25th in backstroke, and Ava came 10th in medley

2. What type of strokes did you do? Georgia does all of them, Jessica and Ava do backstroke and freestyle.

3. How many schools competed? More than 20 schools.

4. Were you nervous before the race? Georgia was totally nervous; Jessica said “yes of course!” and Ava was nervous only a bit.

5. Were you trying to beat the person next to you? All of them answered YES OF COURSE!

6. How many lanes were there in the swimming pool? 10!

- The Sports Team (Aidan, Bre and Sophie H)

Term 1, Week 10 Inquiry: Famous buildings and structures

Room 12 has been researching about famous buildings and structures around the world. Then we all chose one favourite structure to make a poster about them.

Here is an example from Georgia. She did it on the Leaning Tower of Pisa and you can find all the important facts about it on the poster.

- The Inquiry Team (Ben, Jamie & Tina)