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Sprickle and Sprackle.

29/6/2017

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Last year in May, 10 chicks hatched at the school. Some families then took pairs of chicks home to be reared. Today, two of the chicks, now fully grown hens, returned to their place of birth.

With some flapping, scratching and pecking, Sprickle and Sprackle, quickly drew a crowd. Between them, they reportedly lay between 2-4 eggs per day. We are glad they took time off their busy schedule to come and entertain us.

Thanks to Marnie and her family for allowing us to borrow these two fine specimens for the day and to Else for the enclosure. 
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A visiting engineer.

23/6/2017

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Many thanks to Marnie's dad for coming in to talk about engineering with the Year 6 STEM classes. He compared the load-bearing structures in a building to the bones in the human skeleton.

Last week, our building challenge was to make a human figure from a set list of materials -- pop sticks, elastic and bricks. Not easy!

​This week, we set out with Year 5 to understand some features of modern factories like the assembly line and worker specialisation. We ran "factories" to produce copies of a pop stick figure. Congratulations to the managers and the workers! 
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STEM in May.

2/6/2017

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On a crisp Wednesday evening, around 60 parents and children gathered at Sydney Observatory for a family tour. Led by several expert guides, we were able to look through a modern $60,000 computerised telescope and a priceless 145-year-old telescope housed in a beautiful copper dome. 

Although there were some clouds and showers around, there were still opportunities to see Jupiter and our own cratered moon. In the planetarium, the guides pointed out some of the wonders of the solar system and of deep space.

Earlier in the month, just under 50 parents attended our latest STEM evening. We tried writing with quills, tying knots in rope and firing a simple air cannon. I know the talk, which included photos taken in Munich, Florence and Los Angeles, made you think of your own travel plans or remember with nostalgia places you had once lived in or visited. -mjp

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