CLG and 1/2R Buddies

Our Outstanding Debaters Move Into the Finals!

Congratualtions to both of our debating teams for winning all of their debates in their zones. Lara B was the only team in their zone to achieve this and so have automatically moved to the inter-zone final (date to be advised). Well done!

Lara A will compete with Geelong College this Wednesday afternoon to decide the winner of their zone as both teams won all of their debates. If they are successful they will also move to the inter-zone final.

If these teams win in their inter-zone final they will move to the grand final! (It's possible that they may compete against each other!)

Good luck and well done!

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
Congratulations to the Lara A team for their success in their intra-zone final. An exrta well done goes to Annie for her best speaker award. They now progress to the inter-zone final against...Lara B! So Lara A will be debating with Lara B in a couple of weeks (date and time to be confirmed) for a spot in the competition Grand Final! This means that at least one of our teams will make it through to the final round! Great effort guys!

Term 4 in the LG Building

Term 4 is shaping up to be massive in the LG building! We have plenty of fun and busy events to look forward to and heaps of things to get done before the Year Sixes move on to secondary school and our Year Fives take over as our school leaders.
 
Some highlights will include:
 
- Competing in our chosen sports against other schools in the Summer Lightning Premiership (Wednesday 29th of October).
 
- Busting some moves with students from other schools at the Blue Light Disco run by Victoria Police (Wednesday 19th of November).
 
- Preparing and practicing for our Year Six Graduation performance (Thursday night, 18th of December).
 
- Orientation and transition for Grade Sixes as they prepare to move to their new secondary schools.
 
- Year 5 students will go through the process of applying for and voting for 2015 school captains.
 
- Visiting other classrooms and learning new skills as part of our procedural writing rotations.
 
Wow! It might seem like a lot to get done and things might seem very busy, but that's what we love about life in the LG Building.
 
Stay tuned for more details of upcomming events and for photos and reports of events as they occur.    
 

WLG and 1/2J Buddies

WLG and 1/2J were assigned to be buddy grades for 2014

In “Buddies” we like to share our I.C.T knowledge with one another. The LG’s are kind and helpful because they share their tablets with 1/2J.

 We do loads of activities with the tablets from mathematical games to sharing our class events.

 The Buddies have learnt a lot from their older buddies. We also have fun by looking at our “Country and Western” assembly videos and making a poster for our portfolio together.

 We have really enjoyed Buddies and we love having a Buddy session fortnightly.  

By Kaylee and Georgie WLG

Souvereign Hill Camp

A couple of weeks ago Lara Primary School went to Sovereign Hill in Ballarat for camp. We had lots of fun panning for gold, doing mine tours, eating lots of lollies, and much more. A big thank you to Sir and Ma'am for teaching us what it was like to be a child in the 1850's. Also a big thanks to the parent helpers who came along and helped.

By Dylan

1/2 3/4 5/6 buddies news

1/2B, 3/4M and SLG talk HOLIDAYS!

1/2B, 3/4M and SLG caught up for our first buddies session of Term 3 on Monday July 14^th. This saw lots of excitement by all students as they got to catch up on what they did on their holidays!

Keeping this in mind, what better way to share what everyone had done with their time, than to conduct interviews, make use of their tablets by typing the answers and to then create some beautiful pastel masterpieces to showcase their holidays!

Clever Grade 1/2 students thought up some very interesting questions to then ask their 3/4 and 5/6 buddies. The Grade 3/4 and 5/6 buddies wrote down their answers to the fabulous questions they were being asked, before typing up the answers. Some examples of these are:

Buddies questions by: Adelle, Maddi and Ruth

Did you watch a movie?

Yes I saw Tinkerbell.

Yes I saw how to train your dragon and Rio 2.      

Buddies questions by: Alex, Coen and Cassi:

Did you go away anywhere: Cassiana no just stayed home, Alex I rode my bike all around Lara.

Buddies questions by: Lucinda, Maddie and Amelia

Did you go anywhere? Maddie yes I went to the snow Lucinda yes I went shopping at Waurn ponds. 

Sports Update

Recently Lara Primary School had one week of sporting events. The first event was the grand final for the lunchtime basketball. Hume vs Hovell. It was a really tough game, but hovel came out on top.

The second event was Winter Lightning Premiership at Geelong Grammar Collage. There were 5 events. We competed in AFL, Soccer, T-ball, Volley stars and Netball. Everyone tried their best and did an amazing job.

The very last event was Athletics. Everyone had a great day. Bass came out victorious. Everyone also tried their best again.

Thanks to Miss Brenan for making these days possible. It was a great week!!!

Geelong College Challenge

On Tuesday 24th of June, 4 students from Lara went to Geelong College to compete in a various number of challenges for the GEELONG COLLEGE CHALLENGE. The team consisted of Amy, Jack, Josh and Jade. They called themselves the AJ's!.

The challenges consisted of an art, maths, technology and major problem challenge!
They also did a biathlon! Phew! Josh and Jade did a run, Jack did boogie boarding and Amy did swimming!
Our students did really well in each challenge, but they did especially well in art and technology in which they got a 3rd in each!
The whole day was based on reaching for the stars! Students made a rocket for art and for the major problem.  The only difference was that for the major problem it actually had to fly! Each rocket had to try and stay in the air for as long as possible.
Overall the day was AMAZING!!!!  Well done to our competitors and Miss Brennan for helping us on the day :)

 

Debating Success!

On Thursday the 19th of June, the debating team headed down to Westbourne Grammar. A lot of people got stuck in the after school traffic jam, but everyone got there eventually. Our school has two 2 teams- the A team and B team. The B team consists of Emily, Jack, Jade G, Logan and Charlie.  The A team consists of Alira, Amy, Seb, Annie and Jade.
Well done to both teams who won the debate on the topic of "Sharks should be culled".
A SUPER well done to Seb and Jack, who both were awarded best speaker!

 

Welcome new bloggers!

This semester, our 5/6 blog has been updated by Mrs Hudson.  With Mrs Hudson leaving for family leave, she has handed the baton over to a 'blogging team' and WHAT A TEAM they are!! :)
Our team consists of one member from each learning group class and they will be in charge of keeping our community up to date with the learning group building happenings!
Well done to:
Dylan, Thomas, Jade, Alira, Josh and Amy!

Onesies, Twosies and more!

On Tuesday the 3rd of June, our Junior School Council reps organised a successful PJ day for our whole school to participate!  Money raised was donated to the Salvation Army, who are going to use it for supplying blankets for the homeless.
We were given the opportunity to purchase a BIG M and a donut on the day which was delicious!
When roaming our school, there were students in onesies, twosies, ugg boots, slippers, dressing gowns and boxers! (Some kids even had bed hair!!)
Overall, it was the most comfiest day at school of the year!

Let's learn about emus!

As 'citizen scientists', HLG spent some part of their week at Serendip Sanctuary creating informative documentaries on our native animal - the emu!  What an interesting creature!  Our movies were made with IMovie on our new IPads and will be on display during the student learning conferences.  For now, here's a sneak peak of some finished products! 

Education Week: "Scientists do AMAZING things!"

With the topic of EDUCATION WEEK being about science, what better opportunity is there to do some science experiments!?

This week we've turned our building into a science lab and we've seen pepper run away, made oobleck jiggle and we've even watched Frankensteins hand rise! 

Newsletter item may clg from Laraps56

Kinder visits!

Recently, students in our 5/6 building put on their walking shoes and visited local kindergartens!  For some, it was a blast from the past to visit their old kinder and in some cases, see their past teacher!!

Students interacted with the younger kids and together read books, played games, did puzzles and drew pictures.

 

We'd love to see some of the smiling kinder students join Lara Primary School in Prep next year!

HLG @ Serendip

We love when it's our turn to visit our classroom down at Serendip!  Each day we have taken a packed lunch, snacks, walking shoes and our hats, to make our way down to Serendip Sanctuary.
The week at Serendip for every class is jam packed with a mixture of environmental and ICT studies and is ALWAYS a highlight!! 

For HLG, our week so far has seen us interact with the rangers, take water samples from Hovell's Creek and run some tests on it back at Serendip.  We've learnt about the 'ecolinc' app on the IPads, being 'citizen scientists' for the ecolinc specialists.  This means, we collected bird data from Serendip and submitted it online.

We've also learnt how to use IMovie on the IPad, creating movies on 'emus', which could potentially be used for an up and coming Serendip app that is currently in the making!

For our Year Sixes, this is the last time they will visit our Serendip classroom (as an LPS  student) and boy will they miss it!

The ANZAC spirit

On the 25th of April, Australia remembered the sacrifice of service men and women by taking part in marches throughout the country.
In the lead up to ANZAC day, the students in our learning group building captured the ANZAC spirit by taking part in a variety of activities. 
The week saw some of us wearing ANZAC badges, writing about soldiers at war and paying our respect via a one minute silence.  We had a guest speaker visit us (thanks Deb!), accessed ANZAC websites to complete history tasks and read stories of war such as 'Simpson and his Donkey'.
In addition to this, 50 lucky students went to Melbourne to visit the Shrine of Remembrance, whilst others displayed their cooking skills by baking ANZAC biscuits - boy did our building smell delicious!

Lest We Forget.

Mum, Deb Robinson, taught us about Lara's 'Avenue of Honour' and showed us how to map our ANZACs on our netbooks

The uniform of our diggers and nurses at war

Real war medals!

 

Front row whilst visiting the Shrine!

Our 'Shrine-ing STARS!'



Blake, Declan, Cam and Lara show team work whilst baking ANZAC biscuits

Mmmmm, the finished product!

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter from the Learning Group building! 
We hope everyone is enjoying their Term 1 holidays and with Easter just around the corner, indulging in a chocolate egg (or two!) as well.

Hello Mr. E.Bunny, welcome to our building :)

Cameron and his buddy creating Easter cards!

MONSTER trucks!

A monster truck visited Lara Primary School

And. It. Was. HUGE!!

We gathered out in the car park and learnt all about these immense creatures!

 

 

Did you know that the first ever monster truck was called Bigfoot and to build a modern monster truck it costs $250,000? WOW!

Well done to Declan Robinson who won the monster truck colouring competition!  His prize was a monster truck DVD and a ticket to the Geelong Showgrounds to watch these beasts in action :)

After viewing the visiting truck named 'The Convict', some year 5/6 students then spent more time researching and creating monster truck presentations! Later in the week we shared these with our buddies - our PowerPoint presentation skills are impressive!   Ben and Jack have shared their presentations below to give a glimpse on all that we learnt!

Monster trucks ben from Laraps56

Monster trucks jack (good luck to all students) from Laraps56

A visit from Geelong Football Players

Those in our building who are fans of the Geelong Football Club were super excited to see two of their rising stars visit our learning group building during the week!  Midfielder Allen Christensen and defender Cameron Guthrie took time out of their busy schedule to make an appearance and talk all things leadership with our year 5/6's.  We heard about an elite footballers' tough training regime, their diet and the dedication needed to stay commited to achieving your goals.  There was plenty of time for question and answers and of course to score a couple of autographs!

Tablets galore!

Wandering through our learning group building, it's all abuzz with learning!  Our most recent excitement has revolved around our Year Fives, again joining our Year Sixes in the 1:1 tablet program.  Students have had exploration sessions on their tablets and the motivation to use them throughout the day is super high!  Teachers are encouraging the students to use their tablet as a tool for learning and agreements have been made around being responsible whilst accessing the internet.  Thanks to all of our techsperts (aka ‘technology experts’) who have helped our Year Fives with any questions they have needed answered!

Congratulations Class Captains!

Well done to our very deserving class captains who were voted in by their peers today!  Smiles all round as each nominee prepared and delivered fantastic reasons as to why they would be a perfect fit for the job.  Our Learning Group area is very lucky to have such wonderful role models!

House captains have been selected!

Well done to our 2014 house captains!  After planning and presenting well-rehearsed speeches, they were voted by their peers to take on the responsibility of leading their team.  House captains have already been ‘put to work’ by helping Miss Brennan set up our Learning Group sport each week!  Our houses are: Flinders/Green, Bass/Blue, Hovell/Red, Hume/Yellow.

2014 School Captains

Welcome to 2014! 

Firstly, let’s introduce our school captains who were voted in (last year) by our current year six students! Jack Benci, Sebastian Fischer, Abbey Walker and Kaylee Abbs have all made a wonderful start to 2014 and their school captain responsibilities.  Not only have they planned and ran their first whole school assembly, they have also attended their first ‘leaders in the making’ excursion to Melbourne!

Seb, Abbey, Kaylee and Jack