Our Assembly

Last week it was our turn to do the assembly and Luke and I were the presenters. We did a 'Teachers Challenge'. The teachers had to listen and arrange the lyrics of Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. We had cut them up in class. The words were cut up on a sheet in front of them. We helped each teacher do it. Ms O’Carroll won as she was first finished and she got a bag of Mars bars for her class.
Then we did the Students of the Month award me, Taylor, Alex and Nathan Barrett won it in our class. We will go bowling at the 'Plex for it.
Then we moved on to Classroom of the Month award and 5th class won so they got a bag of Mars bars too.
After that we put on the song agin and which ever class sang the best singers got to go first. 2nd class went out first then 4th then 3rd and eventually 5th. Everyone said that we did the best assembly ever!!

By Josh

Our Science Experiments

Can you balance - three ways to find out

Experiment 3. Can you stand against a wall and raise your opposite leg?

I thought it would be easy to stand with your feet apart, with one foot shoulder and head touching the wall and raise your other leg. Dead easy or is it??!!! When you are against the wall you can't move your leg off the wall. One of the lads made sure we didn't move our head, shoulder or foot off the wall. When you try to lift your other leg off the wall you fall. I did it i kept falling off the wall. Because I lifted my leg up too low and my centre of gravity was not over my two feet! Very hard unless you have incredible balance!

By Taylor M.

Can you balance - three ways to find out

Experiment 2. Can you stand against a wall and bend down without moving your knees?

I thought I Can you stand against the wall without moving your knee off the wall, no problem. Its harder than you think. If you can touch your toes you might be able to do it but when I did it, I moved my centre of gravity from over my feet and I fell over. One of the lads made sure we didn't bend our knees. I wasn't able to pick up the coin, it was too hard.

By Taylor M.

Can you Balance - three ways to find out

Experiment 1. Can you stand up without leaning foward?

Harder than it seems!! When you are standing your centre of gravity is over your feet. When you sit down or are bending forward your centre of gravity is over the chair. To stand up you must move to get your centre of gravity over your feet but it is impossible to stand up if you don't lean forwards. When I tried it I nearly got it. But I nearly fell back any time I was pushing up because the chair kept on moving back!

by Taylor M.