#ijumpupanddown4kids

By Stephanie and Julie-Anne

Today we took photos of us jumping up and down against the detention of refugee children in Australia and Nauru. Miss Lee gave us a letter to decorate so that we could then take a photo of us one by one which makes a word after we were all done we made a youtube video which is called  #IJUMPUPANDDOWN4KIDS

We are doing this because there are more than 600 children that are being put in immigration detention. Putting children in detention will not only hurts them, but ruins their childhood.  We realise that not everyone is as lucky as we are and we think it is wrong that there are children our age in detention.  

Check out our video:

Keep jumping up and down against the detention of refugee children in Australia and Nauru!

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