 In 2006,
Year 6 once again held their Medieval Day, which was greatly enjoyed by the
children, parents and teachers. Here's some photos of their day. |
 Miss Rea, one
of the Year 6 teachers, was lucky enough to win a scholarship to China for 17
days, through Access Asia. Sixteen teachers were selected from all over
Australia to participate in this amazing journey. Click the
photo for her report and pictures. |
 Year
6C and 6L spent a day learning how to survive in the bush at an excursion
run by teachers from Berrinbah East State School. The children had a great day as you
can see from the pictures.
Click here
for their pictures. |
 On Wednesday 9th
March, 2005, the children of two Year 6 classes went on an excursion to
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. Here's some photos of their excursion as well
as a report by one of the students. Click the lorikeet for the photos and
report. |
 In
term 4, 2003, many Year Six and Seven students at Rochedale State School study
multiculturalism. As part of this unit, Professor John Tyman from Cultures
in context visited the school. This year, he spoke about the Maasai people
of Kenya in Africa. Thanks to Professor Tyman the children learned a great
deal about the Maasai culture and are now ready to look for themselves at
other cultures, with a much more open mind. Here's some photos of our talk. |
 On
Thursday, 15 May, 2003, our Year 6 classes held a special day of medieval
activities to
finalise their unit of work. Congratulations to students, parents and
teachers for making this day a great success. Parents and students went to a
lot of trouble to wear appropriate costumes. A great day was had by all. Click on
the picture for a look. |
|
 This
year the Year
6 students held their annual Medieval Day on Wednesday,
8 May, 2002.
Once again they had a great time, with medieval games, a banquet,
medieval school work and dancing. Click on
the picture for a look. |
 Year
6 students held their annual Medieval Day again on Wednesday, 15 May, 2001.
They had a great time, with medieval games, a banquet and dancing. Click on
the picture for a look. |
 Year
6/7 took part in the B105 Scavenger Hunt in 2001, to try and win some money for the
school. Although they managed to find all 19 items, with over 100 other
lucky contestants to compete with, they didn't en up winning. Still they had
a great trip into the city for the draw. Here's their pictures! |
 Ms
Cavallaro's Year 6 had a great trip to Underwater World as the conclusion
to their Marine Studies Theme. Click on the picture to see their trip report
and photos. |
 Ms
Keiler's year 6 and 7 students have been learning how to produce brochures
using Microsoft Publisher. They've done a terrific job of them so here's a
couple turned into web pages. Click on the picture to have a look. |
 Year
5/6 children have been learning about Mt Vesuvius as one of their themes
for Term 4.
They had a wonderful time doing writing activities, making volcanos and
dressing up for a real Roman feast. Click on the picture to see their work
and pictures. |
 In
2000,
the year six and seven children had the privilege of attending a
presentation by Professor John Tyman, from Cultures in Context.
His presentation this year was about the Sawos people of Torembi in the
Sepik River area of New Guinea. Click on the picture to read all about it. |
 Year
6 students enjoyed learning about Medieval times in Term 2, 2000 and to complete
the unit, they had an exciting Medieval Day with the kids all dressing up
beautifully in medieval costume and taking part in activities, a luncheon
and games for the day. Click on the photo to have a look at their great day. |
 Year
6 students entered the Rochedale Challenge, a competition between local
schools involving thinking skills, cooperation and many other areas. Team 4 from Rochedale were the winners this year. Click on the photo
of the winning team for the report. |
 in
1999, Year
6 had a visit from Dr Tyman who talked to the children about life in a
Maasai village in Africa. The children enjoyed seeing all the colourful
Maasai artefacts, games, clothes and weapons. Click on the picture to have a look at our pictures and read about the
Maasai people. |
 As part of
our Social Studies in Year 6, we study life in Medieval Times. To get right
in the swing of things, we have some Medieval visitors come to the school
each year. We have heaps of activities and a great Medieval Feast for lunch.
Click on the picture to have a look at this years photos. If you'd like to
read out information on Medieval times have a look below. |
 Year 6
completed some great projects on Antarctica. They certainly learnt a lot
about this cold continent in their research.
Click on the picture of the seal
to have a look at their project work.
|
 In
1998, we had
some Medieval visitors come to the school to tell us all about Medieval
times. We had a great day, with activities, games and a Medieval feast at
lunch time.
Most of the children came dressed up in Medieval costume too and
looked terrific. Click on the shield to read all the information we learnt
that Mrs Levitt kindly typed up for us; and also have a look at our great
photos that we took on the day. |
 Year 6
also had a visitor from NASA come to the school to tell us all about Space
and Space Shuttles. We spent a very enjoyable and informative hour listening
to his talk. Click on the shuttle to read all the information we learnt that
Mrs Levitt also kindly typed up for us. |
