Green Light Man- The movie

This year "The Digi Club" made a movie to be entered into the MADE awards. This is the movie that was entered and made the finals. (Top 5 movies) Tonight the winner will be announced- Check out the movie. Well done digi club and Mrs Burnett and Miss Byers!- good luck all!

Official results through- 3rd place in MADE awards 2015 for story telling category. Congratulations all involved!! What a great achievement.

Teach me Tuesday - Week 6!

It was Teach me Tuesday again today. We really enjoyed both of our lessons. First up, Feifei and Jennifer taught us how to make origami folding heart boxes. They did a really great job explaining the procedure to us, and were really patient when we needed help too!

Here's the instructions of how to make a heart box.
Start on blank side

1. Fold squared paper in half horizontally and then diagonally.
2. Fold all corners into the centre point
3. Open up and flip over
4. Fold one corner into the first crease and repeat on the opposite side
5. Fold again to the next crease and repeat on the opposite side
6. Fold again on both sides
7. Rotate 90 degrees. Take one flap and align it with the centre crase. Repeat on the other side.
8. Flatten it down. Take the triangles and bring it to the middle. Repeat on the other side.
9. Fold the top point into the centre and fold the flap in 1/2.
10. Repeat instructions 7-10 on the other side
11. Now it should be able to open up
12. Then fold the top flaps into a heart shape (optional)
13. You are finished!

Next we had a chocolate chip cookie making lesson with Leanne. We all participated to make a cookie dough, and then enjoyed eating delicious warm cookies. 
Thanks Leanne!

If you would like to make the cookies at home here's the recipe.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients

• 1 cup (softened butter)    

• 2 eggs
• 2 cup chocolate chips
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup white sugar
• 2 cup flour

Method:

1. Put the butter in a bowl and add the white sugar

and brown sugar then mix with a mixer.

2. Break in the 2 eggs. Make sure there's no shells in it.

3. Add the vanilla and then mix with the mixer.

4. Mix flour,salt and baking powder in another bowl.

5. Pour dry ingredients into mixture.

6. Use a spoon to scrape around the edges

7. Pour in the chocolate chips. Mix with a spatula

8. Roll into balls. Place on oven trays.

9. Bake for 10 mins at 190 degrees.

When they are done let them cool down for some time.

Paper plane design

Today we had a paper plane design challenge.

Each team had to build 2 different types of paper airplanes. One paper airplane had to be designed to fly as far as possible. The other airplane needed to stay in the air as long possible.

For the distance category, each team threw paper planes while we recorded with chalk the furtherest distance out of 3 chances. 

For the time in air category, each team threw their paper plane while Mrs Millett timed the flights.

All teams did a great job with their designs, making modifications to improve the speed and aerodynamics of their planes. 

The winning paper plane in the distance category was Brydie's team including herself, Eddy, Eliot and Felicia.

The winning paper plane for time in the air category was Leanne's team including herself, Beau and Amy!! Well done designers!

Peer Mediator day

Today our peer mediator leaders had a great day together working with teachers from the "Peace foundation" and with students from other primary schools. 

Their task was to plan out the programme for Term 3's Peace week, and also think about how they can do their role even better. 

It was an inspirational time for all involved. All came away with great ideas and a little bag of goodies for their efforts. Thanks Mrs Leonhart for organising the day for our peer mediators!

UHPS CROSS COUNTRY

After five weeks of training we had School Cross Country today. We all did our best and finished the course. Many people placed in their age group race. 

Congratulations to Logan (1st- 9 year girls), and Leanne (3rd- 9 year girls). 

Congratulations to Brianna (1st- 10 year girls), Ella (2nd- 10 year girls), Brydie (3rd- 10 year girls) and Beau (5th- 10 year girls). 

Also congratulations to Taylor (5th- 9 year boys), and Sam (6th- 10 year boys). 

Well done everyone- you really showed resilience and perserverance!!

Reflecting on Term 1

Can you believe it- we're already at the end on Term 1. We've had such a great term of learning and discovery. Here are some of our reflections of the term.

My reflection- Brianna R

I really liked: poetry and art, Teach me Tuesday and Mrs Millett
I wish I had: learned more about animals and the environment, that we had a class pet
I still need to work on: talking to the teacher
Something I now understand is: how to link letters
I am most proud of: my bird art
A tricky part was: keeping my desk tidy, being neat in my books
Next term I need to: stop talking too much at my desk
I could teach others about: animals and wildlife, survival and walking, tramps and keeping fit

My reflection- James B

I really liked: the bird art that is behind the board and Mrs Millett
I wish I had: learnt geometry this term
I still need to work on: is getting stuff finshed on time 
Something I now understand is: how to put paragraphs in my writing
I am most proud of: my self portrait
A tricky part was: answering reflective questions
Next term I need to: take my instrument to school
I could teach others about: baseball

My reflection- Leanne O

I really liked: the beach trip especially tbe long walk and sand castle competition, Teach me Tuesday
I wish I had: better handwriting skills
I still need to work on: my times tables
Something I now understand is: how to use paragraphs
I am most proud of: my flower art
A tricky part was: Maths, Handwriting and Spelling
Next term I need to: improve my learning
I could teach others about: the human body and netball.

My reflection- Daniel K


I really liked: connections, Teach me Tuesday and Reading
I wish I had: learnt decimals better and made my writing better
I still need to work on: decimals, recounts and paragraphs
Something I now understand is: mammals, connections nad reading
I am most proud of: my line graphs
A tricky part was: making my maths book tidy
Next term I need to: know lots more about decimals, writing and making my maths book tidy
I could teach others about: Tae kwon do

Thanks for a great term of learning!!!

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