Year 6 Leadership Conference!

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During the Lead Yourself Into The Future Conference, we joined together with the Donvale students to perform various group tasks. Our teams task was to build the tallest tower, using only newspaper and masking tape. 

We had to work together as a team to build the tallest tower that was still standing at the end.

When the timer started, we decided it was best to discuss all our ideas on how we were going to build the tower so we could come up with the best plan. We didn’t make the tallest tower, but I think it was a good team effort. My group worked well because we used communication and teamwork, and there were no disagreements or people not contributing. Everyone played a part!

From this conference, I learnt that leadership is an action, not a position, meaning that you can’t just say you are a leader, you actually have to be a leader by helping, guiding, teaching, encouraging and being respectful to others.

I think I am a good team member because I like to contribute and help, and I enjoy working with other people and their ideas.

What do you think leadership is? 

Our Year 5 Production！

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‘ Should have gone to Supersavers!’ That is what the entertainers on the stage said when they found the tea ladies glasses that she had lost. Recently, the best experience ever, we had our year 5 production. It was a very weird and funny journey through Australian history. It was called Hanging onto the Bottom of the World. I was 3 characters, a Bridesmaid, a convict and a women who was fighting for womens rights. I really liked preforming and seeing all the audience laughing. It was really exciting. My first character was a bridesmaid. I had a bouquet and I had to act very proper and perfect. It was really fun when we had to eye down the other brides because we were suppose to act jealous of the other brides. After that scene I was a convict. We had a shirt with dirt marks and we had to look really sad and tired. We came down the stairs with a cardboard boat while we sang a song called Through the Eye of the Needle. There was sand on the stage for us to stand on so it looked more realistic. There was Australia painted on the stage as well. 

My third role was a women, who was fighting for womens rights. I loved playing this character because I had a beard on at the start, and when they were thinking about giving the vote to women I ripped off my beard and revealed that I was a women. It was fun. 

Some positive learner attributes I used were courage, because it was really scary speaking in front of an audience, and I used imagination to picture that the production was really happening. 

 

Overall, I really enjoyed the production and I really love being on stage and can’t wait to do it in senior school!

 

Learning about the 1850’s!

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In this unit I learnt what life was like in the 1850’s. There were lots of important events that I didn’t know happened such as the eureka stockade and when gold was discovered in 1851. A whole lot of people came to the goldfields to dig for gold. It was also really rough on the goldfields. Lots of punching and violence. At first, I didn’t know what the eureka stockade was or what life was like in the 1850’s. We went to sovereign hill for camp so we could experience what life was like on the goldfields for a child. We dressed up and we went to school. We did sewing, drawing, learnt how to write with an ink pen, read poems and learnt times tables. We always had to remember our manners, We had to call our teacher ma’am and always had to stand up when talking to an adult. Back then children were seen but not heard so we always had to wait for an adult to say we could speak before we could say anything. It was really fascinating because we could have just being told or researched about the gold rush but we were actually put in the picture at sovereign hill. I loved finding out a lot of information about the gold rush. I really liked walking around the streets in costume with my friends because I felt like I was actually living in the 1850’s. When we got back from sovereign hill we made a replica of sovereign hill. We were in partners and we were allocated a building and we had to make a model of that building. My partner and I were given two buildings so we had two dioramas. When everyone was finished making there dioramas we put then together on a piece of wood and we had made a model of sovereign hill. It looked really realistic!

Some of the skills I developed in this unit was compare and contrasting in reading rotations and mapping and location in maths. Comparing means what features are similar between certain things and contrasting means what features are different between certain things. We were presented with two texts about the gold rush, we then had to create a venn diagram finding the similarities and differences of both texts. In maths, I also learnt mapping and location, we had to draw our whole diorama from a birds eye view point and turn it into a map. We had to add coordinates, a scale and a compass. 

In writing I have also developed some writing skills. We had to write a newspaper article about our chosen building (which was the Smelting works where they melted the gold). I wrote my newspaper article about the welcome nugget which was the biggest and first nugget ever found. It was discovered by 22 miners from deep underground in the mine on the 9th of June 1854. There was a huge celebrations involving beer and champagne. 

Some PLA’s (positive learner attributes) I used when building my diorama were imagination because we had to imagine what the building looked like, communication and collaboration because we had to work as a team in order to get our diorama done and knowledge because during our time at sovereign hill we had to research our building so we would have some facts and information to refer to while making our diorama.

I really liked this unit because I learnt lots of new facts and important events of Australian History.

I really liked making our dioramas because we could be creative and the finishing product was a huge success.