Book Week celebrations

Book Week was a fantastic celebration. Lots of visitors were here to enjoy presentations from our students who read book reports aboiut their favourite characters and books. We had a parade of book characters from each class and it was a really high standard. Many families went to a lot of trouble to do a “home-made” outfit. Our teachers all dressed as a character from the Mr. Men series and they also wrote a report about “why I love reading” – These were great samples of reading and are on display in the year 3/4 WonderWalls.  Thank you to Natalie and her team for their organisation and for everyone’s participation.

HUNTING FOR MICROBES

Belle Vue Park Primary School has a very large focus on Inquiry learning and Investigations through S.O.L.E. (Self Organised Learning Environments) and Science.
 
As part of our commitment to this our year 5/6 students participated in lots of science learning this term. Recently staff from G.T.A.C. (Gene Therapy Access Centre) which is based in Parkville visited our school to lead our students in a series of experiments on microbes.                                                                   
 
These investigations are always a highlight for our students and they learn so much. Our students did a lot of hands on learning discovering the properties of common microbes. Brilliant learning!

"Some microbes are good for you and some are bad for your body and can make you sick. The experiments were interesting, fantastic and made the learning fun for us. We did a number of experiments each session. In one experiment we had to put our thumb into a jelly substance to see how many microbes were on our skin. We couldn’t see anything to start with but after a week the microbes had grown and spread.

The staff from G.T.A.C. were really nice and planned lots of fun and interesting activities for us. They were really nice and we learned a lot. Microbes are really small and you have to use a microscope to see them. There are different types of microbes. They live everywhere… in food, a body, water, earth."  - Baha Saad and Hanede Saraya

“My favourite part was in the lab where we looked at the microbes through the magnifying glass. We were able to identify different microbes. We used microscopes to zoom into the microbes that we couldn’t see with the naked eye. We learned that there are 4 types of microbes. The session was brilliant.” - Affan &Alia Yr 5/6