Picasso Cow Presentation Day 2015

Picasso Cow Presentation Day

by Peter and Jack P.

At 9:30am in the morning we got on the bus to go to the RSL in Blacktown. Once we got on the bus it took about 1 hour to get there. We helped get the cow of the trailer, we got it into the RSL.  The only choice to get the cow up to the area was to get it into the elevator. It just fitted! Peter and I helped it getting it out of the elevator. Once we got the cow into its place,  we had recess. 

Then the Presentation Day started! 

The first activity was a Quiz for every school. One student from each school had to go up onto the stage so we chose Amelia to represent our school. Each school had to choose a sound as a buzzer. We gave Amelia a Cat sound. Amelia made it into the grand final but we didn't win but at least we had fun. 

We played this game where we throw the ball in the air until the music stops. Who ever had the ball when  the music stopped, had to read out what it said on the ball. Each  word on the ball was an activity. After the Quiz there was a milking challenge. Two people were needed for the activity.  They didn't actually milk a cow. They milked a teat on a bottle. It looked funny! 

 After all the milking we all did an activity together we had to make a own milkshake. We didn't win that because we forgot to put some healthy stuff in there. After that then they announced the cow that won. A school called Emu plains won the Picasso cow presentation. We were close to winning because we look a little bit like them. 

We enjoyed watching the activities and the free Yogurt and Milk they were really tasty.

What did you learn from our Picasso Cow project? What could we do to improve? 

Paper Plane Competition

Lots of entrants in today's Paper Plane Competition #lovemacc

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Some great designs amongst some of today's paper planes! Distance comp complete....next round is longest hang time #lovemacc #lovemrstodd

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Paper Planes are so much fun!

MACC primary had the best of times as we created and flew our paper planes to see who could get them the furthest. There were some great results. 

Stay tuned to find out who got the best distance out of their paper aeroplanes. The winners will be announced once the Most Airtime Competition is run!

Art awards

Talent abounds in Stage 3, as we have some artistic students who won first Prize for our Recent Art show. The prizes were awarded for the People's choice, Photography, sculpture and for Year 5. A big congratulations goes to Grace, Nikita and Naomi. 

Da Vinci Decathlon

Over the last few weeks, a number of our students have been involved in training for the Da Vinci Decathlon, which will be held in our Sports Hall on the 12th March.

The Da Vinci Decathlon is an annual event that was started by Knox Grammar School. It is an academic competition for teams of students in 10 disciplines such as Mathematics, Chess, Art, Poetry, Drama, Engineering, Cartography and Code Breaking.

These areas of discipline are based upon the life of Leonard Da Vinci, who was one of history's greatest thinkers. The Decathlon places an emphasis on higher order thinking and creativity that Da Vinci displayed throughout his lifetime. 

There are 22 teams entered in this years competition, so we are facing quite a lot of competition. It has been a privilege to see how hard everyone has been working in training, developing confidence and strategies for the day.