A couple of 6L students went to Barwidgee Lodge on Tuesday afternoon and shared their readers with the residents.

There were lots of smiles and the residents were very happy to see and hear from the students. The students did a great job introducing themselves to the big group then sitting with residents to share their readers and some stories of the past. The students were treated to some lovely cake before they headed back to school.

Well done to the Heidi, Jessica and Riley!

This week the students have been learning to work with programming language to get a robot to follow commands.

They used a program called mBlock.

“I learned programming and how to work as a team to solve problems” – Olivia

“I learned that if you put in the wrong commands you need to update your program and reload it” – Breanna

Mother’s Day is this weekend so the class got to visit the Mother’s Day stall to buy their mother a gift for her special day.

It was great to see so many students from the class putting their name forward to be nominated as the Student Representative Council member.

The students presented some great speeches.

Congratulations to Grace who was nominated as our representative. She will do a great job taking our class ideas to the SRC meeting.

On Wednesday our Year 5 and 6 students travelled to Melbourne to the National Gallery of Victoria to see the Edgar Degas exhibition.

Our education guide was Alice who was awesome at explaining the development of Degas’ style and talking about life in Paris in the 1800s. Our Year 5 and 6 students were forthcoming in asking super questions and making some astute observations that impressed Alice. The Degas show is immense and this collection is drawn from over 67 locations around the world and includes sketches, paintings, pastel drawings, and sculptures. Degas had failing eyesight in his later years, so he did less painting and more sculpture, particularly of horses. One of the favourite pieces was a bronze and fabric sculpture of the 14 year old ballerina and the large blue painting of Degas’ cousins.

We ate our lunch, that included a great triple chocolate cookie, in the great hall beneath the coloured glass ceiling. In our afternoon workshop Levi and Jaydon’s work were a highlight showing a great understanding of using tone to create depth in their figures. Adam impressed us with his creative streak showing that Ladeane was not the only creative in the Lindsay family. We left with a clutch of drawings under our arm and a cool Degas tote bag for each student.

The day was fully sponsored by the National Gallery of Victoria, including our travel, lunch and workshop materials. This funding had been generously made to the national Gallery from Mrs Krystyna Campbell-Pretty and family provides support to schools/students to visit the NGV, specifically for rural students who often do not have the opportunity to visit city galleries. Have a chat to your child about the day and what they learnt and took away with on the day.

Thanks to the Year 5 and 6 students for their great company.

Adam, Kit and Inga

What was your favourite part of the day and why?

On the 6^th of September, four men came to Myrtleford P-12 College. These men a part of team who carry a torch with a flame, similar to the Olympic torch, and run around the world country by country to promote peace. The men explained what they do and then we played a game. After that we watched a little film. It was about all the countries they went to, and some special people that have held the torch. Muhammad Ali was one of the people who got to hold the flag.

When the movie finished year 6 read their poems on peace. Everyone did a great job on their poems. They were awesome. We had bought a Magnolia tree to plant at the school, and the men gave us a plaque to put with the tree so that it can be dedicated as a ‘Peace Tree’.

At the end we went down to the oval with the torch and we all got to touch it for a second. Then we ran around the school oval behind the torch which a couple of people got to hold. Thank you to the men that came to our school, it was great!

By Molly

https://www.peacerun.org/

Why do you think it is important to have peace in our world?

During the last couple of weeks, students from P-6 have had First Aid session from the St. Johns First Aid School Program. We learned about the D R S A B C D and how to perform CPR. First off we went over all the basics like the recovery position, which some kids performed on each other. Then we learnt about the D R S A B C D, this stands for Danger, Response, Send for help, Airway, Breathing, CPR and Defibrillator. Last off the kids got to give CPR to mannequins.

Remember, if there is an emergency call 000.

Here are some comments from our Year 6 students:

“I learned that on a younger child you have to perform CPR one handed so you don’t crush their ribs”. Jamie

“I learned about the D R S A B C D chart. I didn’t know about it”. James

“I learned about how to find the heart before you give someone CPR”. Daniel

“I learnt how to give CPR, and the D R S A B C D chart”. Ethen

What did you find most helpful to learn at the First Aid Training?

Students in Year 6 and 7 travelled into Wangaratta to visit the local Art Gallery. The following exhibitions were running:

• Justin Andrews – Drawing Time
• Mandy Gunn – re-source, re-make, re-new
• From the Land – selection of indigenous art and artefacts

Students were able to walk around and appreciate the various art pieces in the gallery. They were also able to help decorate two large rainbow serpents which were on the floor of the gallery.

http://wangarattaartgallery.com.au/

What was your favourite piece of art and why?