Our children had a LOT of fun when Science In a Van visited us during the last week of Term 1. The Junior children were treated to a very enjoyable experiment of how to make a super bubble. The Senior children were introduced to the Periodic Table elements and the differences between Solids, Liquids and Gasses explained with a variety of exciting experiments involving dry ice and 'explosive' liquid nitrogen.
We were very lucky to have fabulous weather for our Athletics day which we had postponed from the previous week due to the huge amount of rainfall. St Brigid won the Senior event held in the morning and St Mary won the Junior event held in the afternoon with the overall winner for both events being St Brigid.
World Water Day this year coincided with some of our classes having a special lesson delivered by an educator from Watercare. Seven Sharp came along to find out more about it and to ask some of our Mt Carmel Kids on how we can all conserve water. Here are our ‘Behind the Camera’ shots – click on one image to view as a Gallery.
You can view the full Seven Sharp episode here (our feature is at 16.57 minutes in)
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You can view just the Mt Carmel feature here
At the Sir Peter Blake Marine Education Resource Centre, our Year 6 children enjoyed a day of abseiling, problem solving games and surf kayaking.
Did you know a seagull can drink saltwater as it has special glands to filter out the salt? Or that we each use an average of 180 litres of water per day? That’s just two of the fun facts that the presenter from Watercare shared with our classes during their experiment sessions in Term 1. The children saw first hand the optical illusions that water creates when you look through it and they applied their learning to discover the reasons for these weird and wonderful changes.