2012 in Room 10 at RPS

The first day we went to the Renmark High School for peer support was the 29th August 2012 and it was when we found out what groups we were in, then we went with our peer support leaders and did activities with them. One of the activities was like another game was Chinese Whispers. On the first day we had a tour of the high school, we looked at the gym, the canteen, tech room, princal's office and some of the class rooms. We also got to meet some of the teaches and students. We saw some of the ex students from Renmark Primary School, we also got to meet the princpal. They plant seeds and have sheep, lambs and goats in the ag.block. Peer support went for 5 weeks on a Wednesday for 50 minutes.  At the end of  our peer support time we said good bye to our leaders and went back to the Renmark PrimarySschool.

From the 21st of August to 24th of August it was Bookweek. Bookweek is when the Children's Book Council of Australia chooses the best Ausralian books. This year the best novel was "Crow Country", in second place was"Nanberry Black Brother White" and third was "Verity Sparks."
 
Picture book winners were "A bus Named Heaven," second was "The Dream Of the Thylacine" and in third place was "Flood."
 
The Early Childhood winners were "The Runaway Hug," in second position was "Come Down Cat." In third position was "That's Not a Daffodil!"
 
The Older Readers Book of the Year was "The Dead I Know,"next was " Straight Line To My Heart," and "When We Were Two."
 

 




The award for New Illustrator went to Sarah Acton, the book was "Ben and Duck". We also wrote poems based on the one of the picture books called "For All Creatures".

For hunting and hooting.                                                  
For beauty and bliss,
swooping and speed.
And for night time we are thankful.

For cute and craziness.
for digging and diving,
playful and pouncing.
And for cuddling we are thankful.

On the 20th of June, four students (Cody, Brock, Josie and Holly) were selected to travel to Monash Primary School with Mrs. Bretag (Principal) to attend the Bluearth Student Leader Forum.

While we were at Monash, we met a lady named Jean Blaydes. She was from Dallas, Texas. You could tell she was from Texas because she had an American accent. She taught us a lot about how our brain works and how exercise is really important and crucial.

After the event finished we thought about the whole thing. This is what we think about it.

"It was a great experience for all of us, and hope to do it again next year, but I can't because I go to high school next year." Cody.

"Jean Blaydes was quite interesting and while we were at Monash, we did three dances. They were called the Soul Man, the Cupid Shuffle and the Wobble." Brock.

"It was an awesome day for me and I wish to do it again. I hope everyone can experience this someday." Josie.

Our group was chosen to discuss the person who is a '' different '' target. The different target is someone who is from a different country or has a disability. Our photo shows someone being teased as he looked different, he had a different skin colour. So don't bully someone who looks different because they come from another country.