Top Team

We had a awesome afternoon at Top Team today, Beckenham teams shone. I was so proud of both Room 19 teams; your support of each other, wonderful teamwork and sheer joy at the experience was fabulous.

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Creativity for the Polar Bear

If polar bears could talk what would they say? We've been considering this as we put together our polar bear collages ...

'Help me, help yourselves; save me, save the world.'
'Reduce your carbon footprint or you will reduce the number of footprints made by us!'

Artwork is under construction...

Reducing our Carbon Footprint

Over the next two weeks we are going to look into the different ways we can reduce our carbon footprint. The students have many great ideas already and we are going to research to find more. Today we discovered there is debate surrounding whether a real Christmas tree or an artificial one is better for our planet. Tomorrow we will select names out of a hat for Sustainable Secret Santa. Students are encouraged to make something or find an environmentally friendly gift, that shows thought has been given to reducing our Christmas carbon footprint.

Let us know who you are.

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Hope you enjoyed the show!

Well it's been a real arts week. The staff were so proud of the Year 7 & 8 team on Thursday night as they shared their creativity on stage. We hope you made it along and enjoyed the night. This would be a great place to leave a comment and give the performers some feedback.

Big day tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Thursday is our Arts Performance day:-) A few key reminders. Come to school in uniform. Bring your costume. Get changed before the bell so we are ready to start the dress rehearsal at 9am. Evening performance starts at 7pm. Students need to come in costume by 6:45pm. No cost or limit to how many people can come and watch, though feel free to donate a gold coin.

See you all there ... it's going to be FABULOUS!!!

A poem to make you think.

Today the class tried to get to the bottom of the message that the author of this cool poem wanted to get across to us.

“If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it.

People would walk around it marvelling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between.

People would marvel at the bumps on it and the holes in it.

They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas.

The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of
the ball and at the creatures in the water.

The people would declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt.

The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be.

People would love it, and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives could be nothing without it.

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.”

By Joe Miller

We then had a go at creating a static image that could be used as a cover, if the poem was turned into a picture book.