Social Science

The people that need help can be people that encounter temptations like addiction, people with illnesses or uneducated persons. When someone is having trouble there will be always be someone or a group of people that can help whether it be from a puppy to a human everyone will always need help. When we are hungry our parents can feed us but what about those people that are less privileged so who helps those that cannot help themselves?

 The Salvation Army are one of the many organisations that use the money that they have fundraised to benefit and help those that may need it. They service facilities for people with addiction problems and also at the moment are fundraising for the ‘Red Shield Appeal’ which is aimed to provide necessities like food and clothing. The Salvation Army is an organisation that helps those who cannot help themselves because of either poverty or illnesses which stop them from working and therefore suffer financially and cannot purchase the daily needs of not only them but their family as well.

 Connection With our School Charism Mission Day is similar to the work that the Salvation Army does fundraising and using their money to satisfy the needs of the homeless, decrepit and hungry. Our School Charism is related to the work of the Salvation Army because we use our money that we have fundraised to help family and children around the world.

Underwater Viewing Machines

 As part of our Under the Oceans inquiry, students designed and created 'Underwater viewing machines.'

Maths is Important

How would you know how much money you would need to withdraw?

How would you know how to read the time?

Maths IS important! Do you believe in cashiers around the world relying on a calculator to solve the simplest of equations because maths was stopped being taught as it was considered ‘UNIMPORTANT’ what would the next era look like and what if maths did stop being taught how would we ever hope to evolve mathematically.

Maths is in everything we do it can be from counting from one to three or it can be measuring a wing of a jet plane. This just proves that maths truly is important. Many things in our daily lives can be assessed mathematically like when you check your clock to watch your favorite show on T.V. or shopping wisely to see which product is cheaper maths is everywhere.

Why should you believe in maths? You should believe in maths because no matter what you want to achieve in life you will need to use your knowledge in maths to solve and accomplish any problems you may face during work and at home. Knowing how maths is a great achievement because it lets you understand life more mathematically which opens new doors to careers like civil engineers that have to measure land and buildings or a manager in commerce giving money and sufficient change to your customer.

Maths is important because if maths stopped being taught we could never hope to achieve future technology and if you want to achieve jobs like civil engineer then you would need great mathematical skill to measure kilometre high buildings and wide, vast land to build new architecture. Maths is an extension to life which can provide deeper understanding to things in life that could open new doors in life.

Science Investigation

This week we had been experimenting with carbonates, bases and acids. We had to write our hypothesis and write our results which these were.

WALT: Observe and report on the chemical reaction that occur when combining substances together.

Experiment - Mix carbonates and bases to acids and record the reaction that follows

Combination	Hypothesis
1. Lemon Juice - Citric Acid	We predicted that the colour would change or lose it’s original colour
2. Raro - Vinegar	We predicted that the vinegar’s colour would over power the Raro’s distinct orange colour.
3. Vinegar - Tartaric Acid	We predicted that the vinegar would turn the tartaric acid into a black liquid like it’s original colour black.
4. Baking Soda - Vinegar	We didn’t really predict because we have done this many times.

Reaction

1. The lemon juice colour faded after being mixed into the citric acid which then after solidified.
2. The reaction turned the vinegar into orange coloured liquid
3. It looked like coke and solidified.
4. It rose and foamed up due to the chemical reaction.

Rubbish in our Schools

Our school excels in academic subjects but in hygiene, specifically environmental standards rubbish around the playground areas suggests that this is an area of concern. Rubbish in our school consists of a broad range of edibles to wrappers and glad wrap.

If children were to take their lunch and morning break rubbish home  - wrappers including those off muesli bars, glad wrap from sandwiches and rolls, paper bags and uneaten food, it would save it going in the rubbish bins at school. These rubbish bins are often visited by seagulls who scavenge for food.  The regular behavior of their visits results in them ravaging our school bins in search of the unfinished food discarded by pupils. Remnants of this scattering can be found around bins which usually get caught by wind.

We could also place more bins in the school so that children would not be lazy to put it in the bin as laziness is one of the leading causes of rubbish scattered in the school. Our rubbish bins could also be expanded so that it can carry more rubbish and not be overflowed by rubbish.

A further way to reduce the amount of rubbish around our school and to manage the seagull problem could also be to replace our playground rubbish bins with those that have lids on them and perhaps returning to the use of the council recycle bins in the playground too, to encourage their use. This would mean that papers and wrappers would not fly out of the bins.