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Aug 20

Science Extension Excursion

AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 
On Friday, 10 August, I accompanied Mrs Woo, 4 students from Years 3 and 4 to the Science Festival at the Australian Museum. We had the opportunity to participate in the Science Expo, visit the Discovery Centre, as well as take part in two workshops. One was about light and the other was about crazy forces. 

Here is some of the feedback from the Year 4 students who attended: 

“My favourite thing was freaky forces because it had a lot of activities and was very funny. The best part was when Joseph got to go on the stage and push the presenter to help explain gravity” – James Touma 
“I liked the Discovery Centre the most because of all the minerals, gold and skeletons.” – Noah Fell 
"I liked the fossils because they looked cool and they are really old and ancient.” – Marcus Kroeger 
“I liked the light workshop as it showed us how different colours show different things.” – Chris Fernandez 
“ I liked looking at the rocks and the bones and all the different fossils.” – Kevin Nheu 
“I liked going up on stage and pushing the presenter over. It was fun.” Joseph Dalla 

It was a fantastic day and we all learnt a lot. The boys had the opportunity to see and use a lot of amazing scientific equipment and technology. It was well worth the visit. All students were excellent ambassadors for Redfield College. 
- Luke McNamara, Primary Extension Coordinator
Aug 13

Thomas Ragell receives Pierre de Coubertin award


Congratulations to Thomas Ragell on receiving the Pierre de Coubertin award. 

The Pierre de Coubertin Award recognises secondary school students who are active participants in sport and display the Olympic ideals of fair play and sportsmanship. The Awards are administered in each state by the respective State Olympic Council (SOC). 

- Glenn Dawson, Head of Sports
Aug 09

Building Roman Villas

 
Over their holidays and in the first weeks of Term 3, Year 7 Latin students drew 3D drawings or made models of Roman villas. This is their third assessment task for the year, the first year in which they no longer sit a Latin exam at the end of the first semester. 

The aim of the assessment task is to familiarise the students with a basic element of Roman culture - where people lived. 

The construction of the models or the detailed drawings help the students not only to memorise the Latin terms used for different parts of the house but also give the students an appreciation of the relative sophistication of an ancient civilization. 

The journal that students wrote in conjunction with the drawings and models is a valuable record of the frustrations and triumphs of any creative project. 

- Martin Fitzgerald, Year 7 Latin Teacher


Aug 09

Year 4 studying forces

  

'Force' might sound like something Year 4 students only study in Science lessons but it's actually something that is around us all the time! A force is basically just a push or a pull that has an impact on something. For example, if you have a ball, you can use a push to make the ball move. If you push it harder, it moves faster. By pulling on something, you bring it closer to you. By pushing on it, you're moving it further away. In class, we experimented with a few games to see how force was being applied. Here are some examples of push and pull games we played last week.

- Luke Baxter and Jason Hatcher, Year 4 Science Teachers

Aug 09

Year 3 astronomers


Year 3 currently has a student teacher, Redfield Old Boy Mr Vazquez Sanchez, working with them during Science lessons. This term, the students are investigating night and day. We observed that the sun and moon appear the same size in Earth’s sky and wanted to know if they truly were. 

Mr Vazquez Sanchez explained that it was an illusion because the sun’s diameter is about 400 times greater. However, the sun is also about 400 times farther away, so the sun and moon appear nearly the same size when seen from Earth. We conducted an experiment on the oval using a basketball as the sun and a tennis ball as the moon.

- Year 3 Science Students
Aug 09

Year 2 Entrepreneurs

 
Year 2 students are natural businessmen! Using fake money to buy and sell items they brought from home, the young entrepreneurs took turns at being shopkeepers and customers. Each student priced each item himself, calculated how much his shopping was going to cost and how much change should be given. The boys also set up their stores in an organised and attractive manner. At the end of trading, all items were returned to the owners and the final profits were tallied. This was all apart of their Mathematics unit on place value and money. 

- Winston Wilson, Year 2 Classroom Teacher

Aug 09

The NED Show

 

It is more than likely some parents may have noticed a new interest in their son's day-to-day life. A round, vertically moving object of interest. Yes, yo-yo madness had arrived at Redfield Primary. Normally, I'd be the first to encourage restraint and moderation and to speak against the negatives of blindly following the latest fad. However, these are no ordinary yo-yos. 
Last Friday, we hosted The Ned Show, a character education program centred around a lovable cartoon character whose name is Ned, an acronym for Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best. Ned's adventures were narrated by a very talented Ned Ambassador using a yo-yo as a prop. 

The Ned Show uses a system of 'pay it forward'. During recess breaks this week, boys are able to purchase a range of yo-yos and other merchandise from the show. The proceeds from those sales will enable other schools to enjoy their own Ned Show. Many thanks to Mr Spagna and the Year 6 leadership team for manning the shop.

During the next few weeks, in addition to follow-up activities in the classroom that reinforce the very positive message, it is hoped that playing with yo-yos and learning Ned's tricks will also remind the boys never to give up, to encourage others and to do their best. If you would like to learn more about the Ned Show and how you can use its messages at home, please visit www.thenedshow.com/. 

- James Ramos, Head of Primary

Aug 02

WriteOn 2018 Writing Competition


WriteOn is an annual writing competition organised by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) to encourage Primary students to compose an imaginative text using a given picture stimulus. 
The English Extension Program students in Primary have worked on this individual project of writing a text in a format of their choice in narratives, letters, poems or journal entries. A group brainstorming sessions helped the students to understand and interpret the detail of the stimulus better and share ideas to come up with a story plot. The majority of the entries were narratives but we had one letter and one poem entry. 
On the completion of writing, the panel of Mr Murray and Mr McNamara chose a final entry from each stage and two entries were submitted online at the end of Term 2. 
The final entries are "Dear Mum", a letter written by Jackson Busch (4B) and "World War 2 - Germany", a narrative written by Simon O’Neill (6K). They received a school commendation award at the assembly on Monday. The students’ writings will be on display on the board next to the Extension Room. 
- Eunice Woo, Primary Extension Program
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