The Bazzas!

Hi to Ampilatwatja from Belmore South!

We’re a year 5/6 class in Sydney.

There are 34 kids in our class and our families come from many different countries around the world. They come from New Zealand, Cyprus, Lebanon, Sudan, Chile, Greece, Ghana, Guyana, India, Bangladesh, Samoa, South Korea, Vietnam, The Cook Islands, Tonga, Palestine, China, Thailand, Kenya, Argentina, Turkey, Syria and South Africa.

Even though we’re all very different we’re all still Australian and we love each other. We get along very well.

We like playing sport, doing art, learning about geography and science, writing, reading and doing maths!!

On our weekends we hang out with friends, ride our bikes, listen to music, play on our computers and Wiis, go to the movies, go to church and the mosque and go swimming. A few of us love to sleep in!

We’d love to find out some more about you.

Can we ask you some questions?

Where is Ampilatwatja?
What is your language?
How many kids are in your class?
How old are the kids in your class?
What subjects do you enjoy?
What do you do during lunchtime?
Are there any snakes around your area? What other kinds of animals are there around your place?
Do you do tests? Do you have homework?

We hope you like our blog and we look forward to hearing from you!

S3K

Oh what a week!!

On Monday 61 Stage 3 students and 4 teachers left BSPS at 7:45 to travel to Canberra for a busy 3 day excursion to our Nation’s capital!

We visited The War Memorial, Old Parliament House and the Electoral Education Office, The High Court, Parliament House, The Royal Australian Mint, Old Parliament House for a historic debate in the House of Representatives, the Embassies, The Australian Institute of Sport, Black Mountain and Telstra Tower (in the middle of a HUGE thunderstorm-scary!), Questacon and the National Museum!! Phew!!

We all had a wonderful time and were so proud to be wonderful representatives of Belmore!

What follows are some students accounts of our time and then photos of our trip.

Ms Krisenthal showed us a graph that showed the movements of an elevator over 6 minutes. We discussed the movements of the elevator, the time that it took to move to floors and how long it stayed on certain floors.
We then split up into groups and wrote a narrative about the movements of the elevator.
Since we’re all such stars, we decided that we wanted to film our stories and publish them on our blog.
We hope you enjoy them-you may need to turn up your volume!

P.S. Sorry about the camera work on some of the videos, we think that maybe a bunyip attacked the film crew!

In groups we researched Indian children. We decided to present our information in a short talk to the class. We were trying really hard to be informal and share our information in an easy way. How do you think we went?

On Monday and Tuesday, Belmore South opened a new exhibition in the school hall-the Belmore South Art Show Extravaganza!

The hall looked wonderful, with all students in the school contributing their creative works to the show.

Check out the pictures below to see what BSPS has created.

It’s the last day of Term 2 today, so The Bazzas are wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday.  We hope you don’t miss school too much!  See you on Tuesday the 28th of July for Term 3.  It already looks like it’s going to be a wonderful term in our room!

On Monday and Tuesday of Week 11, Belmore South PS is holding the ‘Belmore South Art Show Extravaganza!’  So, S3K have been creating like crazy the past few weeks!!

As we have been studying Aboriginal Australia this term, all of our art works have been based on an Indigenous artwork, artist or artform.

Check out our talent!

These art works are based upon Bronwyn Bancroft’s art

We’ve named these artworks ‘From Cadigal to Canterbury’. We created these artworks out of respect to the traditional owners of Canterbury-The Cadigal people.

We based these weavings on traditional eel traps. We used rafia, wool and bells to create our own unique traps!

On Tuesday of week 7 S3K, Ms Krisenthal, Ms Dyer and Mrs Harrison went down to Area 7 to have a campfire. We were there from ten o’clock to one o’clock. We went there to perform our Dreaming stories and to have fun.

At the start we took a while to set up for the corroboree. At first we had to paint our faces which was fun. Secondly we had to finish off our plays and outfits and get ready. Thirdly we went down to area seven and set up for our performances and damper. We all performed very well. After that we all got our damper and sat around the hot fire and we were cooking the damper. Then we went to put out the fire and pack up.

KENNY: It was a great day and I enjoyed everything. What I didn’t like was that when I made my damper, it broke off!

HALEY: The best thing I liked was the fire just in front of everything but the thing that I hated it was the fire it went into my eyes!

BY: KENNY AND HALEY!!!

This term we are learning about Aboriginal Australians. Our class has been divided into groups of 5. Each group has to come up with their own Dreaming story and perform it at the campfire that we will hold in Area 7. We are going to cook, perform and dance around the campfire.

When we started this unit our teacher, Ms Krisenthal asked us to bring in anything that we had that was Aboriginal. Last week Jihad brought in his Aboriginal dot painted snake, didgeridoo, pictures and a spear that he had made all by himself.

Last Friday for our golden time we made a Rainbow Serpent with coloured paper chains. We have a map that has all the Aboriginal language groups and nations in Australia such as Mbara, Kunja, Muruwari, Barindji and many more. The group that had lived in our area was named Eora.

Jihad and Turzo

Our map of Aboriginal Australia

Our table of wonder!

 The head of our Rainbow Serpent

Our voices rose from our hearts like smoke rising from a fire. We discussed everything we wanted to learn about the aboriginal culture. The legends, the group names, the different types of food, the way they hunted and the weapons they used. Our teacher brought some items in that she found and students also contributed to our collection of Aboriginal items on our display desk. We are currently creating our own Dreamtime stories for our corroboree that we are going to have in 2 weeks time or earlier. At the corroboree we are going to have a campfire and we are going to cook kangaroo meat, roast marshmallows and eat damper. Also we are going to present our stories in play form at the corroboree. Recently we have started making a rainbow serpent (the Dreamtime story told us that the Rainbow Serpent created everything) out of coloured paper and using the chains.

 We have designed art about a journey that most follow every day using aboriginal art and colours. We have a whole term packed with interesting facts and journey so keep tuned to see more later.

Sokeina and Sonia

Hello world!

Welcome to the blog site of The Bazzas!  We’re a Stage 3 class in Sydney, Australia.

Last term we studied a wonderful unit on our local area!  We learnt a lot about the history of Belmore.  Mrs Penman and Mrs Harrison came in to our class to chat about the history of Belmore South Public (Mrs Penman came here as a student and Mrs Harrison has taught here for many years.)  After a few lessons in class, we went for a walk around Belmore and Kingsgrove to check out The St George Hotel, The Towers, The Moorefields Rd cemetery and the old site of Belmore South PS next to the cemetery!

Lastly, we finished off our unit by having an old fashioned school day.  We all dressed up and took lessons from 1919.  It was so different to what we’re used to!

“I enjoyed this unit because I learnt new things and I think it’s really important to know the history about the area that we live in” Sonia

“I enjoyed this unit because it helps me remember everything about the history of Canterbury and Belmore-like the immigrants and other things” Tyrone

“I liked this unit because I learnt a lot of things that I didn’t know (especially about this school). Also because we got to go for the walk around Belmore which wasn’t like any other usual excursion.  It was tops:) ” Sokeina

“It was fun” Hannah

“I like feeling the history around me” Jihad

The boys dressed up for our ‘Olden Days’ school day

The girls dressed up for our ‘Olden Days’ School Day

Our class at ‘The Towers’          

 At the site of the first public school in Belmore- ‘Moorefields Rd Public School’.  It would have been a spooky school to attend as the church and cemetery are just over the back fence!