Sunday 27 July 2014

Bankstown Council Excursion




On Wednesday the 23rd of July Year 5 and Year 6 went to Bankstown council. We learnt about safety rules such as:
  • You are not allowed to put your rubbish on the side of the road
  • You are not allowed to park your car on a no stopping sign
  • If you go more than a 40 km per hours in a school zone the you will get a penalty of over thousands of dollars or hundreds.



We also participated in a role play about how the councillors vote on a decision.The parts of the role play are the troublemaker (Gabby),the guards (Jade and Jason), the mayor (Georgia) and the 12 councillors (Emily, Gabby, Lilly, Sinead, Ryley, Matthew.D, Jack, Meg, Christopher, Angela, Angelica).


After that, we went to the new library and had a scavenger hunt. We knew which book we had to find because the librarian gave us a tag which said the book name on it. If we couldn't find the book then there were some computers where we could search for the book that we needed. At the end 4 people read a book which had 4 different colours in it so 4 people could read it. Then we read another one.

When we left the librarian gave us a bag with a pencil a book and two pieces of paper in it. Then we went back to school and had music. :D

Year 5 thoughts about the excursion.
Stephanie: “I thought the best part of the excursion was the scavenger hunt at the library”.

Julie-Anne: “I thought the excursion was awesome and cool”.

Ashlia: I thought that it was awesome.

Sinead: It was fun and interesting.
Emily.N: I thought the excursion was fun and cool

Emily.B: I’d rate it a 7/10

22 comments:

  1. I really liked the Bankstown Council excursion, it was really funny. The favourite part of the excursion was when gaby had to run away from those security guards and when we had to booo or cheer really loud.

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  2. It was a fun day going with the year 6.
    From Abby

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  3. We learned a lot and it was really interesting

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  4. I thought the excursion was a very fun day with year 6 and all the things we have learn
    and how the council have a part in every thing in our daily life.

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  5. Going to the Bankstown Council was a good experience to learn what the councillors really do!

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  6. I loved the act that we did on the debate on the Mcdonalds or a park.

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  7. I thought it was a really good post it definitely had all the facts in it and it was good how they wrote in who played the roles of people that really made it clear

    From Matthew.D

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  8. I really liked your speech good job

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  9. My favorite place was the Bankstown council because I liked it when the trouble maker ran away from the security guards.

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  10. Going to the Bankstown Council was a good experience to learn about what they do.
    it was really fuuuun and I loved it !!!

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  11. when we went to the council we lent new stuff and we even did a play to now what a counciling fill like and sounds like and it was fun ;)

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  12. It was really fun to go to the bankstown council and learn new things.

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  13. It was a great time and I learned alot. But my favourite part of it was when we went to the library. At the library we have really awesome activities. Also great blog post!

    From: Paul

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  14. It was really when I could be one of the councillors.

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  15. I was really funny when Gabby S ran away from the guards.

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  16. It was really fun going to the council and to the library.

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  17. I really liked doing the role play.

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  18. The library was really big and very cool.

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  19. They told us what to do and what not to do and how to be safe on the road.And we had a play to do and it was really fun.
    Thomas

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  20. The excursion was really fun
    Ryley

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  21. It was awesome to act out the scene in the debate room because I got to act out a councillor.

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  22. It was soooo fun.

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