Coomera Rivers State School eNewsletter

Great work this week

Year 2 visit Currumbin this week

This week the Year 2 students went on an excursion to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. For Science this term, students have been learning about living things, their life cycle and what they need to survive. The day out provided many wonderful experiences for students to consolidate their learning. They enjoyed a range of engaging encounters at the Sanctuary including seeing the pelican and eel feeding, watching the 'Wild Skies Free Flight Bird Show' and exploring many animal enclosures. Their favourite part of the day was feeding and patting the kangaroos in the glorious spring sunshine. It was a wonderful day!

Other highlights included:

A huntsman spider on the bus - Mrs Fischer bravely saved some scared girls from the vicious kid-eater
One bus broke down on the highway
A very cheeky Macaw bit Indy! (just a pinch, no blood)
And we had a few sleepy kids (and parents) on the way the way home

Year 3 spend a day at the museum

This week our Year 3 students enjoyed their visit to Queensland Museum in Brisbane. There were many cheers of excitement and enthusiasm as we made the trip up the highway and entered the city.

We learned many new things in the Classifying Animals presentation which was engaging and hands-on. Our students discovered the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and more!

There were exclamations of wonder when entering the Dinosaur exhibit and we got up close to fossils and replicas of huge dinosaur bones! Other highlights included the hundreds of animals displays, the ANZAC memorial centre and we even saw LIVE green pythons!

Thank you to our team of teachers and volunteers who assisted us over the two days. This excursion leads us into an awesome Term 4 Science and Information texts unit.

Regional chess tournament

Last Monday, Jason, Amity, Michael and Oliver went to Emmanuel College to represent in Coomera Rivers in a team chess challenge. The opposition was mighty tough, playing against players from Kings, TSS, CAC, AB Patterson College and St Josephs College. Each player played 7 rounds, and each win contributed to the team's overall score. Our students loved the challenge of playing against some of the strongest players on the Gold Coast, and although they didn't win every game, they were all smiles and happy to have the opportunity to participate in such an elite level of chess.

Thank you to Mr Burrows for leading our team at the tournament.

Introducing the Gold Coast through poetry

This term, Year 3 has been learning about writing poetry. To give 3/4WH a real purpose and audience for their writing we wrote our final pieces for a class of year 6 students up in an aboriginal community named Kowanyama. These students will be travelling to the gold coast soon to visit possible boarding schools. Our poems were all about what they will get to see, hear, taste and experience here on the Gold Coast.

We explored Kowanyama on Google Maps and students were blown away by the fact that their entire town has less people then we have just at our school. The Year 6 students will be writing a poem back to us about what we could see, taste, smell and hear in Kowanyama if we were able to visit.

Our Indigenous Use garden is created

This week, Steve and Brett from Jacobs Well Environmental Education Centre, visited Coomera Rivers to help us with the first stage of our Indigenous Use garden.

Our students learned about native plants that can be used for food, medicine and a variety of other purposes, and then planted many of these plants. They were able to taste some native honey, finger lime, lemon myrtle cordial and a variety of spreads made with native fruits, nuts and berries.

It was a fantastic experience, and we look forward to continuing to develop this space and maximising the learning opportunities it provides. Thank you to our school Indigenous Champions for developing our progams.

Young learners show off their hard work

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Tension is tight in 2B

This week, 2B took a virtual ride on the world's longest roller coaster to help build tension for a Tightening Tension writing task! The results were superb! Well done to our young authors.