LEARNING AREA 21

PURPOSE: To work in a  group  of 4 representing  Year 7s (facilitated by Bernadette) to help plan  Graduation Year book , Graduation decorations and Graduation songs for beginning and end of ceremony.
MEETINGS will be held on Tuesdays during lunch time.
APPLICATION via an expression of interest  to class GRADUATION blog post by Friday 23rd October.
 SUCCESS CRITERIA
100-200 [...]

During Week 8 of Term 3  46 students participated in the World Vision 40 Hour Famine. Students chose a variety of items as their ‘Famine’ task. Some went without food, others chose to go without furniture and some even tried to experience living with the use of only one arm for the 40 hour period.
It [...]

Today we celebrate with the UN and countries around the world an attempt for International peace. The International Day of Peace is observed each year on the 21st September and is a global call for cease fire and non-violence.

International Day of Peace
 
We can all play a part in this with even just a smile making [...]

This gallery of videos created by World Vision allows you to get more of insight about  why your particiaption is important and how  your efforts can make a difference.
Congratulations on taking the first step to help by participating. Good luck with your chosen ‘Famine’ task.
Linking to the World Vision home page and clicking on to  [...]

Glogster is an exciting poster-creation tool that provides a platform for students to combine text, images, video, and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster masterpiece.
Glog On!<

DoppelMe is a free avatar maker for use in forums, blogs and on the web. It allows selections of facial expressions, hair, skin colour, clothing etc.
It’s free and there are no Flash, ActiveX controls, downloads or toolbars needed – just your browser and a few mouse clicks. That’s it!
http://www.doppelme.com/

http://cbca.org.au/bookweek.htm
This Friday continuing on with the school’s tradition we will be having the annual Book Week dress parade. The theme this year is Book Safari. I am hoping that as a team we can particiapte in the parade showing off our Safari creativity.
Ms T has sent out a challenge to all.
Dear Students and Teachers,
Have your [...]

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This week we continue to focus on PERSISTENCE. The word is a heading for the positive habits of mind which see us:’working tough’, ‘not giving up’ and affirming the ‘I can do it’ phrase as we approach challenging, difficult or tasks that are boring but need to be completed.

15 days ’til the 40 Hour Famine!
In the past year, over 100 million more people have been affected by a food crisis.
Funds raised in the 40 Hour Famine will support World Vision projects that are fighting the Global Food Crisis in Kenya and Cambodia where people are at risk of starvation.
We are going to [...]

My first impression is that this book will be a bit like PARVANA’S JOURNEY that I read last year. I have never read a book by this author so I am interested to se what sort of writing style he uses. I also wonder how this story will start. Will they have already escaped or is [...]