On Monday the 28th of April, a Paralympian visited our school; Sam Bramham. Sam was born without his femur bone, so needing to amputate his right leg. He loved to compete against his friends and when he found swimming, he was very good. He competed against able kids until he was contacted by people that let him compete against other disabled kids. Sam competed in swimming in the 2004 Athens Paralympics at age sixteen, this being his first Paralympics. He also competed in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, 2007 South African World Championship and the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. For being a great role model for his younger teammates and his service for his country, he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal. He is quite the prankster, involving his leg in many pranks, such as; telling American media that his leg was eaten off by a kangaroo and faking a shark attack that ended him up in trouble with the police! He is currently training for the 2016 Rio Paralympics for Paratriathlon.

Even though I have already posted a few things, i just wanted to say that this year, I am still in the same class. It is great so far and I am really enjoying it! Feel free to look around and enjoy…

On Tuesday 4^th of February, all of the Year 6’s travelled by bus to the Amberley Edmund Rice Centre in Eltham. This Excursion was all about Leadership, as we worked together in our leadership groups for different activities. One of the activities we did was build a structure out of newspaper and sticky tape and each team had to fit in there free-standing building.  We also had to write up a list of our team norms that we will all follow throughout the year when we are working together and we made a poster of ideas of how we can improve St Dominic’s. Another activity we participated in was making a poster with each-other’s faces and next to it wrote each of our qualities. During recess we played table tennis and air hockey and did some exploring in the gardens, but the best part was lunch time! We all got to have pizza and garlic bread, not to forget the soft drinks! At the end of the day, we were so excited to get our graduate jumpers that not one of us took off through the hot weather! After a long bus trip home, we arrived back at school after long day of fun.

On Tuesday 11th of Feb, the year 5/6’s talked to an Australian Ski Cross champion; Scott Kneller. We spoke to him through chat to a champ, on Google Hangouts with a few other schools but unfortunately, they lost connection. We asked him a few questions about his skiing career, recent injuries and the excitement of qualifying into the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.  He had recently injured his back and was almost ineligible to compete but he got the all ok from the doctors and he begun rehab to improve his back.Some of the year 6’s spoke to him last year, twice actually, so it was good to get an update on how he has been going. It was great to see Scott in Sochi, back on his feet, ready to compete and win some GOLD for Australia! We can’t wait to see what he has got in store for us at the Winter Olympics! He is an inspiration to us all and it will be great to watch him on TV, live from Sochi!!

Achiements

• I am happy with my achievment of getting to the final 8 in the Public Speaking
• I have achieved my reading goal, becuse I wanted to be able to understand the different chapters I have read and be able to write a summary or talk about it with details
• I am very happy that I got into District Athlestics
• I also am very happy that I was selected to go to the District Tennis later this year
• I have also achieved my Maths goal, by improving in Mapping and Measurements with the activities we have completed in Independent Learning

Impovements

• I am happy with my improvement in my Artwork over the last semester
• I have definetly improved in my Public Speaking with the amount of Public Speaking in the last few terms
• This Semester, we have been doing many 100 word challenges, writing pieces and narratives that I have been working on very hard to improve my vocabulary. As a result I have worked hard to write better stories

Work Habits

Effort

I believe that I try my hardest at all times and keep organised

I do admit that I get distracted quite easily while I am working

Class Behaviour

I feel that I work well without distracting others unless it is for others

Sometimes I ignore others when I am working so I dont get so distracted

On Wednesday of Week 4, our school celebrated Grandfriends Day! We started the fun by meeting our grandfriends at church, followed by a prayer celebration with special readings and songs for our Grandfriends. We enjoyed a walk back to school with our grandfriends, returning to a long line for tea and coffee followed by a few different plates of cakes. Afterwards, our grandfriends looked around our classroom and we all got the chance to show some of our work and what we have done during the year. Unfortunately, we only had the morning to catch up with our grandfriends but everyone had a great time! It truly was a great morning. Here is a photo of me with my Nana, Grandma and Grandpa…

It was also Crazy Sock Day, as we were donating a gold coin donation for a charity, ‘Sock it to Poverty’, for Socktoboer!

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