Wangaratta Primary School

Duchenne Awareness Day

Students recognised World Duchenne Awareness Day last term in memory of former student Darcy McGauran.

Darcy’s sister, Ella, spoke at assembly, teaching students about Duchenne muscular dystrophy and how it affects people.

Students and staff wore red to show their support while honouring Darcy’s memory and raising awareness of the condition.

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Cathedral College Wangaratta

Meeting Dr Karl

Year 5 student, Lilly Stevenson, recently researched Dr Karl Kruszelnicki for a humanities immigration project.

While searching for information, she came across a phone number and made contact with Dr Karl and organised a video chat talking about his experience as an immigrant.

With the initiative that Lilly showed, her classmates and years 3 and 4 students also had the chance to ask Dr Karl some wonderful questions - well done, Lilly.

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Wangaratta High School

Racing in the USA

The school said bon voyage to year 9 Clarence Lampa and year 8 Paige-Lee Dummett last term, when they departed for a 15-day cross-country racing tour in the United States.

The pair set off to compete in four events across Nevada and Arizona with their Australian team, racing against American high school athletes, while also experiencing sights such as Disneyland, Universal Studios, the Grand Canyon and more.

Clarence and Paige-Lee are standout athletes – both Upper Hume and Athletics Carnival champions, prolific school sport representatives, and respected leaders as House Captains.

Clarence is also known as an O&M football umpire, while Paige-Lee shines on the field with the Rovers and Tigers.

The school is proud to have been represented by the students on this exciting adventure, which ended with both returning home with medals.

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Whorouly Primary School

The Shanty Man

Students wowed their audiences last term with their original musical, The Shanty Man.

The show was performed twice - first with a special matinee for the Country Women’s Association and then again in the evening for families.

The idea for the production began when students asked their performing arts teacher, Georgia Royse, to include a sea shanty they had been learning in their performing arts class.

With a lot of creativity and teamwork, The Shanty Man evolved, and a joyful, sea-sprayed musical about tradition, courage and finding your own voice was created.

Every student worked hard to make the show a success.

Some auditioned for lead roles, everyone learned five songs by heart, and the senior class teamed up with the art teacher to build a fantastic set that brought the story to life.

Acting principal Dale Walker described the shows as a huge success, featuring plenty of singing, acting and laughter, in what was a wonderful celebration of the students’ talent, effort and creativity.

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Appin Park Primary School

Appin arcade

The year 3/4 students enjoyed their Quest study for term three, where they used an engineering design process to create a working arcade game that was fun, fair and made from recycled materials.

After initially discussing the purpose of arcade games, students also explored sustainability and reusing a variety of materials, before beginning to collaborate with their team members to plan, build, test and refine their games.

Students were excited to showcase their work to their parents and the rest of the school.

Younger students were excited to play their games, with some of them winning small prizes.

Parents were positive in their praise and feedback to all students, admiring the diversity of games and thought that was put into their work.

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QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following birds is lightest? Is it a) the ostrich, b) the northern cassowary, c) the emu or d) the emperor penguin?

2. Which metal is always found in an amalgam?

3. True or false? Our Sun is a brown dwarf.

4. A coprolite is a kind of fossil, but what is it a fossil of?

5. Which acid is found in the stomach? Is it a) nitric acid, b) sulfuric acid or c) hydrochloric acid?

QUIZ ANSWERS

1. d) Although emperor penguins can weigh up to 46 kilograms, they are still the lightest birds on the list.

2. Amalgams are alloys (mixtures) of mercury and other metals.

3. False. Our Sun is a G-type main sequence star. Brown dwarfs are ‘failed stars’ that are too small to fuse hydrogen into helium.

4. Coprolites are fossilised animal droppings.

5. c) Stomach acid is mostly hydrochloric acid, with some potassium chloride and sodium chloride

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