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Friday, 13 March 2015

Year 6 Merit award winners

Well done tour Award Winners this week!

Great participation and teamwork was shown at the Da Vinci Decathlon. There was some fantastic understanding shown about Fractions and Decimals.

Thanks guys for all your hard work and effort this week!

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Being creative is often a way of expressing our feelings, showing skills that we have developed and sharing with others our view of the world. MACC's art show. "The creatives" was an opportunity to showcase students creativity and to show their skills. There were many entries in all of the categories of Drawing/ Painting, Photography and Sculpture.

There was a silent auction for each of the entries with the highest bidder winning the picture or sculpture. Each person was invited to vote on the artworks that they felt should win the prize. It was evident from the amount of families that attended that our Art show was a popular event.

Did you enter something in the Art show? Which entry did you like the most? Why?

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

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.