Nursing Home

                 Nursing Home Visit                             

                                    By: Ashlia , Clara and Natalie

On Friday the 2nd May, we went to the Bass Hill Nursing Home. We sang songs, talked to the elderly people and had some fun. We sang ‘I am the light’, The rainbow song and our school song. We talked about what they liked about school, when they were young and we tried to make them feel young again.

At Bass Hill nursing home, they care for the elderly,

in a quiet street. At the nursing home, the staff  cook food for the elderly. Also at the nursing home, there is a hairdresser available and the elderly can have their laundry cleaned. They also have regular church services for elderly. The family and friends of the elderly can visit them and be involved in activities throughout their visit.The people who help make their meals for the elderly.The elderly have a fun hour in the nursing home.

It is available 24/7 every day and the family members can visit anytime. The nursing home was there for the past 30 years, and residents their enjoy their time there. The nursing home we visited, is called ‘Allity’.   

At the nursing home in Bass Hill, it was approximately a 15 minute walk, from Christ The King to Bass Hill Nursing Home. When we arrived at the nursing home, there were beautiful artworks that hung on the walls of the nursing 

Here are some Year 5 student’s thoughts about the nursing home visit:

Matthew D: I thought it was very exciting but a long walk,  but overall it was a pretty good trip. We got to sing to them and meeting them and also making them feel good.

Thomas: I thought it was nice.

 

Natalie: I thought it was great fun.

Ashlia: It was great fun and the old people are really nice.

Clara: I thought it was really fun to sing songs,  and get to know the elderly.    

NAPLAN

NAPLAN Test!

By Matthew D and Stephanie

Year 5 started a massive test called NAPLAN that was done by children all around Australia. Some of the types of NAPLAN styles are language conventions, writing, reading and numeracy. A child has to complete NAPLAN if they are in years 3,5,7 and 9.

You  get your results later on in the year (September). You get 40 to 50 minutes to finish the test. You have to be silent during the test so the other children can have full concentration at all times.

The full NAPLAN takes a few days to finish because you have to do different tasks on different days. You have to either color in a bubble to pick your answer or you have to write the answer in the box. We also got sweets in every test we did :-).  They were waiting on our desk when we came in to the classroom.

 

WRITING

During writing we had to write an exposition or you can do a narrative about the topic that the you are given. It should be about 2-3 pages. You had 30 minutes to finish the test. We also got about 5 minutes for planning and about 5 minutes for editing.

LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS

During language conventions we needed to answer 51 questions. We are not allowed to say what the questions were, but a majority of students from our class thought it was pretty easy. We had 40 minutes to complete the test and every one answered all the questions.    

READING

During reading we needed to answer 38 questions. We had another book that we needed to look at the stories and then answer the questions. The was an easy one and every single student answered the questions. We had 50 minutes to finish the test.

NUMERACY

During numeracy we needed to answer 45 questions we had 40 minutes to finish the test. There were lots of different types of question e.g. The were graphs on who voted more on the topic, addition, subtraction, minus and division, there were some very hard questions and some super easy ones. We were very lucky to get some blank paper to do our working out on.

What did you think about NAPLAN?