#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!

The Australian Gold Rush

We have been learning about the gold rush in Australia. We have learnt lots of things about the gold rush such as:

• Near the end of September 1851, there were about 10,000 people digging for gold near ballarat.  
• The most popular goldfields were Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.
• The ophir mine was near a waterhole.
• Gold was valued from $12,00 to $35 .00 an ounce.
• Women did do mining later on in the gold rush and women used to entertain men while they were digging.
• Gold seekers must pay for a licence in order to dig for Gold.
• Food cost a lot because so much people were getting gold.

What interesting facts have you found out so far?

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

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?