More Junior School Council Fundraising...

As part of our fundraising for our sister school in Tanzania we have been making book marks to sell at the Avenel Market in September.

We also organised a movie night and sold snacks made by our students.  As you can see we had a great time watching a movie in our new school building.  Everyone made very generous donations and it was great to see so many people there!  

Fundraising Dress-Up Day!

As part of our fundrising for our sister school in Tanzania the Junior School Council organised a character dress-up day on the last day of term.  Almost everyone (including the teachers) came dressed as their favourite book or movie character.  We managed to raise over $160 to go toward buying equipment for Steven Tito Acadamy in Tanzania.  We were so proud of the number of families who supported our cause by donating and taking the time to create amazing costumes.  Check out the photos and see what you think...

A peek look at our new school

Our new $2 million school is nearing completion and we are excited that we will most likely be in our new classrooms at the start of next term.  Our new building will have six teaching studios around a huge central common area.  Here are some photos of what it looks like so far!

This week the Junior Team have been conducting experiments and making observations.   We have investigated what happens to water on different surfaces and also the changing states of water. 

We found out that water can be absorbed into some surfaces and that it is repelled by other surfaces. 

We also made predictions about what would happen when water was heated and cooled.  We watched water as a solid melt back into a liquid when it was heated.  We also watched water become steam when the liquid was heated further. 

Micah told us it was like the water cycle and that we could see condensation on the glass, just like when the sun heated the water in our terrariums. 

Observing water on paper and carpet:

Observing what happens to solids when they are heated:

Shared Morning Tea

At Avenel Primary School we are trying our best to make our school sustainable.  We have been looking for ways to reduce the amount of rubbish at our school.

The Junior School Council came up with the idea of organising a morning tea to share our ideas for homemade, rubbish free snacks.

We had a fabulous time sharing all the yummy treats that people had made.   We had muffins, pancakes, Steph’s mums famous chocolate cake, fruit salad, crackers and dips, slices and cookies.

The Junior School Council is now working on putting the recipes into a book for everyone to take home.

Water Investigations

This term the Junior Team have been investigating water.  We made models to show where water comes from and where it is used in different settings, such as the city and on farms and we even investigated how water is collected and used in Tanzania.  We were interested to find out how much more difficult it was to get water for people in Tanzania than for us.

We have also been learning about the water cycle.  We made terrariums to see if we could replicate the process and see the evaportation, condensation and precipitation.

After making our observations we drew diagrams to show what we found out.

Tamara explained that the heat from the sun causes the water to evaporate and then condensation forms.  When it cools the water drops become precipitation.

Avenel Primary School is in the news with a report on our BER project appearing in The Australian on Wednesday 15th May.  The page three article reflected on the successes and failures of the BER and its knock-on affect on this year's budget deficit.  Our school featured as a positive outcome of the program.

You can read the full story on http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/treasury/we-will-pretty-much-get-a-brand-new-school/story-fnhi8df6-1226642543546