Week 3 and our Ross Creek experience.

We had a great time at Ross Creek on Wednesday. It was heaps of fun and there were a few tired looking children on the way home.
Thanks Room 3 for a great day out.
Here are some photos from our day and next week Zade is helping me to upload a movie segment from the day.

Week 3 - Ross Creek

One beautiful, sunny morning Room 3 went on a morning walk down to the wilderness, also known as Ross Creek. A kind, old man named Pete from Adventure Masters, took us on a journey through Ross Creek with the help of some parents. We were split into 3 groups: the Tool Guys, the Cheetahs and the A Team. Our 3 challenges were Orienteering, Rap Jumping and the extreme pain of the Team Challenge dah, dah dah...

The Team Challange - Pete takes us around the whole of Ross Creek carrying a kayak for 1 whole hour. We had to face EXTREME PAIN going over and under things, through creeks, through trees. It was fun but really tiring. Our other challenges were not so hard. The Rap Jumping was funny because the guy was talking then all of a sudden he fell over. Mikayla and I were laughing so hard we nearly cried. It was so hilarious.

We all had a great time, we pretty much came out of our comfort zone with the team challenge.

Well done to Mrs G for coming even though she was sick.

By Ariana

Week 2 - Athletics

On Wednesday was Athletics. I was in the U12 girls. We did high jump with Mrs Garthwaite, Mr Martin and his high jumping hat and Miss McGregor. My favourite was the shotput.

By Kara

Week 2 - Athletics

I'm in the Under 13 boys athletics team. For athletics we did hurdles, shot put, sprints, high jump, long jump and hurdles. It was really fun and it wasn't a bad day. I was very good in sprints and came 1st, 2nd, and 2nd. People who are very good in something and come in 1st or 2nd will compete in the North Zone Sports. Everyone I know had a great time and had their fun workout for the day. Hopefully it encourages more people into sports and get really fit!

By Fabian

Week 2

This week has been so busy with Athletics and Teachers' Only Day. The Teachers' Only Day gave the staff a chance to discuss and reflect on the things that we do here at Balmacewen. With life so busy at times it is great to have time to stop and reflect. I came away feeling more motivated and aware of what I need to be doing to provide the best possible learning experiences for Room 3.
Next week also promises to be busy with our class trip to Ross Creek!

Term 4 - Week 1

The last term of the year. The year has gone so quickly! This term is a busy term but hopefully a sunny term too. We have been enjoying the beautiful weather this week and managed a couple of games outside as well as some athletics practises.
This week we started the Amazing Race as our homework focus for this term. I am enjoying the enthusiasm and motivation everyone is demonstrating. Keep it up! Look forward to some varied and interesting Roadblocks over the next 10 weeks. Remember too, there is a quiz each week about each country.
We are also into speeches. Today we started our impromptu speeches and next week we will begin deciding on the topic and writing a well crafted 3 minute speech ready to present to the class in Week 4.

ASPIRE

Georgie and I left the school grounds to head out to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit). Instead of focusing on the babies we decided to focus on the nurses. So we got some help from the class and we put together a care package full of baking. We walked out of NICU feeling happy because they said they have never had something like that happen before.
Mikayla
(Here are some photos from our visit.)

Long Beach

On Friday the 10th of September Room 3 had a fantastic trip to Long Beach. Our class was split up into 3 groups: rock climbing, exploring the cave and sand sculpturing. It was a very fun day, there was even a dead sheep near the cave! And I found a sheep's skull.

Gene