Rainbows and light
Our class has been learning about rainbows and how they work. We have found that a rainbow is made when the sun shines onto a raindrop. The sunlight hits the back of the raindrop and breaks the light into different colours. This makes a rainbow. A rainbow is an illusion, you can not touch it.
We have been working on different experiments to investigate light and how it works. We are in the light tunnel working on how we can make white light out of coloured light. We are trying to reverse a rainbow! it actually works, the coloured light when shined together makes a white spot in the middle.
Jade 4/5B
lights and movement
This term we are all ready to illuminate our world. We are diving into physics and investigating light! what is light and how does it work?
rainbows, raindrops and refraction!
mirrors, optical illusions and ideas!
get ready for a fun term of scientific discovery and investigation!energy
Uncovering the History of Port Fairy.
Middle years students have investigated influencing people in Port Fairy’s history. We have been learning about the natural history of Port Fairy. Jodie Honan a local naturalist and historian has created the supporting text for our inquiry unit. We have discovered the influencing people shaping our local history:
Cpt John Mills and his historical sustainable approach to whaling.
Gracie Bowker and others involved in writing history for Short tailed shearwaters.
We have explored and rewritten Port Fairy history. Student work will be uploaded shortly!
Step back in time
Our early years student have taken a step back in time exploring the maritime history of our region. The prep – 2 students visited Flagstaff Hill to discover what life was like for early settlers. The student particiapted in a classroom set in the 1800’s, role playing a very different style of teaching and learning.
Cephalopod inquiry
Our environmental science curriculum will delve into the world of cephalopods. During our first few weeks of school the students have undertaken different activities to discover the diversity of the cephalopod world. From nautilus to argonaughts, squid to cuttlefish. We investigated the life of these mysterious creatures. Our students have used, digital microscopes, observation, information searches to seek an answer to their cephalopod questions. 
Baby lizards
In the holidays my brother and I looked and found baby lizards.
Niamh.
Where are the sea worms?
Grace and I finding sea worms
Grace and I went out see how far the sea worms go out in the ocean. We only found one sea worm but many sea worm holes. There were also plenty of fish but that was not what we were looking for. The main places where there were holes was about 13 metres from the shore when the tide was in. The holes were mainly found my knee deep in big clusters but were also out to my thigh deep and that is all I know of because I couldn’t go out any farther. It was a really fun enviro lesson and hopefully if I do it again there will be more sea worms. Lucy 5/6 D
Pea Soup finding crabs!
On the 20th of the 11th 09 5/6 went down to Pea Soup with Hamish, Kain, Kurt, Teo and Mitchell with a drop net and some hand nets to find crabs. Our investigation question was What sex are the crabs? when we got there they went out on to the rock platform and out to the edge. Hamish threw the drop net out. We found lots of dead crabs but there was nothing in the drop net. (but its was a great cool down!)
findings at the beach
look at the pretty shell
On Friday the 19th of November the whole of 5/6 D went to pea soup beach to look at the different species of animals there are at the beach. I was looking for starfishes with Cody and Angus. We were originally looking for starfishes but we couldn’t find any so we looked for crabs and we found some.
By Tarsha