The Annex News/Homework Sheet 11th May 2015 Happy Birthday Interschool Sport Natural Disasters Happy Birthday to the following stu- Congratulations to the AFL Football, dents who celebrate their birthdays Soccer, Girls, Boys and Beginners Netball, Volleystars and Mixed Softball during the next two weeks of May: teams for their wins against Antonio Aaron Hook — 11th Park on Friday, 1st May ! Heath Murphy — 11th Currently we are in the Immersion stage of The scores were: Alicia Recinos — 16th our topic. Students have been watching Football - 61-49 (win) Youtube videos to gather information about Tyrese Pomponio — 22nd Natural Disasters that have occurred in the Hot Shots Tennis– 209-246 (loss) past, while practising their note-taking Girls Netball - 31-15 (win) **** skills. These videos such as ‘Top Ten NatuBoys Netball - 32-13 (win) ral Disasters’ produced by National GeoTransition to Year 7 graphic, have been highly engaging as well Beginners Netball - 25-2(win) as educational. We are all greatly looking Year 6 students are reminded that their Soccer - 17-1 (win) forward to furthering our knowledge of Application for Year 7 Placement Girls Softball - 15-18 (loss) natural phenomena and what causes them forms are due back to their class during our planned excursion to IMAX and Mixed Softball 12-9 (win) teacher by Friday 22nd May. Please Melbourne Museum on Thursday 28th May. contact your class teacher or Mrs Frith, Volley Stars - 3-0 (win) In order to protect our environment and if you are having any problems filling in reduce costs, we will be travelling by train the form. Congratulations also to the Netball, to the city. Permission forms will be coming Softball and Volleystars teams on their home this week and should be returned to **** wins against Good Shepherd on Friday, school as soon as possible. NAPLAN 8th May! NAPLAN testing for Year 5 students will **** begin on Tuesday 12th May with LanThe scores were: guage Conventions and Writing, each Football - 16-46 (loss) Pre-Service Teachers taking 40 minutes to complete. LanHot Shots Tennis– 261-410 (loss) guage Conventions will be held before Mrs Sandra Hill from Swinburne University Recess and Writing after Recess. On Girls Netball - 32-12(win) has been working in Room 19 with Mrs Frith Wednesday 13th May, Year 5 students for the last two weeks and will remain with Boys Netball - 15-7 (win) will do the Reading paper and on Thursus in the Annex for another two weeks. Beginners Netball - 12-8(win) day 14th May, they will complete the Welcome to Great Ryrie, Mrs Hill. testing with Numeracy. Both of these Soccer - 1-6 (loss) Recently classes in the Annex were each tests will take place in the first session. visited by two pre-service teachers from Girls Softball - 15-6 (win) Year 5/6 teachers have helped the Deakin Academy. Each pre-service teacher Mixed Softball - 22-18 (win) students to become familiar with the gave a short literacy lesson to a small format and timing of these tests and Volley Stars - 2-1 (win) group of students, an activity which was wish them all the best. Next Friday, 15th May, Great Ryrie will enjoyed by all who participated. be playing against Holy Spirit. Hot **** Shots Tennis, both Softball teams and **** Volley Stars will play away. On Friday ICAS Information Technologies Heathmont College 22nd May we will be playing against will be held on Tuesday 19th May at 9:00 Croydon Hills. Soccer, Volley Stars, On Friday morning. 15th May, at 9:10am we am in Mrs Frith’s room, Room 19. Year 5 Hot Shots Tennis, Girls Netball and will welcome back some of our ex-students. students who will be completing this Beginners Netball will play away. They will be coming as ambassadors for assessment are: Aaron Hook, Lucas Heathmont College to speak with their Football will be played at Aquinas. McPherson, Heath Murphy, Ash School Captains to all the Year 5/6 stuNewnham and Mackenzie Skinner. Year Good luck to all Great Ryrie teams! dents about what is happening at Heath6 students also taking part are: Josh mont College. Bird, Sylvia Dang, Hannah Murray and On Tuesday afternoon Year 11 Psychology Kieren Tiwikawala. Good luck to these **** students from Heathmont College will be students. The Running Competition coming to conduct a range of Maths activi**** ties with a selection of students from 5/6F. Starts this week and finishes at the Science Talent Search. end of Week 10 Term 2. Each week a **** There is still time to enter. Please see class will win a point for having run the most laps. The class that has the Mrs Frith for details and entry forms. Quote For the Fortnight most points at the end of Week 10 will **** be the winner. Students, please wear appropriate running shoes and be Energy and persistence conquer all things. Premier’s Reading Challenge prepared to do your best to get fit. Benjamin Franklin Please keep reading your books. HOMEWORK Due Friday 22nd May Please complete all of the following tasks . Remember you have two weeks to complete all tasks. Therefore the teachers are expecting your work to be of a particularly good standard. Open-ended Task This fortnight your task is to be creative. You are required to produce a piece of writing or art work no larger than A3 size which depicts a mood or creates atmosphere associated with one or more natural disasters. You may use one medium such as pencil, paint, crayon, cardboard, textiles or clay or a combination of more than one. On the other hand you could write poetry, drama or prose. Please remember that this section of the homework should take the equivalent of 20—30 minutes per night for eight nights a fortnight and the standard of work produced should reflect this. Maths Quiz 1. 87 + 56 = 2. What is the next number in the Fibonacci Sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5. 8. 13 ? 3. John has a stamp collection. One third of his stamps are from India. He has 36 of them. How many stamps are there in his collection altogether? 4. A television program starts at 14:45 and ends at 15:20. How long does it go for? 5. 63—45 = 6. If 6x+3 = 15, what is the value of 6x –3? 7. How many sides does a nonagon have? 8. What is the square root of 144? 9. If two angles of a triangle measure 35° and 65,° how much does the third angle measure? 10. What is the place value of 3 in 1.234? General Knowledge Quiz 1. Where is the island of Maui? 2. What makes cakes rise? 3. Which famous tennis tournament takes place in South West London every summer? 4. What kind of animal has appeared at the beginning of MGM movies since April 1924? 5. Which blood group can be given in a transfusion to any other blood group? 6. What would a Fletcher do as his job? 7. How many arms has a squid? 8. Who invented the first ball point pen? 9. Which letters in Scrabble are worth 10 points? 10. What name is given to a painting done on a newly plastered wall? —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Parent/Guardian signature ****
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