Science Day Update

What fantastic day so far – apart from the rain. Plenty of fun and engaging activities for all the kids. This photo shows the hydrophobic sand investigation.

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Science Day Begins

All the students at Sawyers are participating in our whole school science day today. Students work in mixed age groups on a variety of activities throughout the day. These science activities are run by the fabulous year six and seven […]

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Faction Cross Country

  Well… Mrs Charman has done it again and organised an absolutely gorgeous day for our faction cross country morning. The sun brought many of us out of hiding and we had a wonderful turn out of spectators. Congratulations to the […]

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Join the club!

Students from years 2 to 7 have started doing their clubs every Thursday afternoon. These clubs include a range of high interest activities including photography, catapult, origami, sign language, frog ponds, knitting, theatre, board game making and art. You may […]

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Our Ideas on Witches

  The children in Room 2 had their ideas about witches challenged this week as they were introduced to “Room on the Broom” by Julia Donaldson. Before reading the book they discussed words they would use to describe witches and […]

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Nonsense String Poems

Today we created nonsense poems about space. We used our spelling word as adjectives to describe the noun. After reading the ‘Jabberwocky’ last week we realised that nonsense words can sometimes sound like real words. So we have used real […]

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Cybersafety

Online safety is the topic for the first part of this term for rooms 6 & 8. I encourage all parents to discuss this very important subject. For more info go to www.cybersmart.gov.au Room 8 learning cybersafety.

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Neil Elliot

During term two, local artist Neil Elliot ran mixed media workshops with all classes. All our students showed great enthusiasm and produced wonderful works of art. The finished pieces will be revealed later in the year at a special exhibition.

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