Currambena school blog

Limerick by Kai
There once was a funny old deer,
Who quite liked the taste of old beer.
He looked at a star,
Got hit by a car,
That funny old beer liking deer.

Acrostic by Phoebe
Learning
Exploring
Advancing
Running
Numbers
Interesting
Never stop learning
Growing

Acrostic by Eitan
Cute
Adorable
Thing

We are gearing up for camp now, with notes home, permission forms to return and emails full of camp information. Thank you so much to the parents who have offered to drive, camp or help with the jobs. You are all greatly appreciated. Please return the green form to me and pay the camp fee of $250 as soon as possible. We discussed agreements today and we looked at photos of Booderee earlier in the week. Excitement is building, needless to say!

Since this weekend is the second last before camp, please help the children check that they have all the camp necessities on the packing list. I do have a few cloth drawstring bags that I bought for $7 a few years ago, if anyone needs one. Plastic bags will not last the distance. Sturdy, camping plate, bowl, mug, knife, fork and spoon are essential. Let’s hope this current weather pattern moves on before we set off.

I hope you have all been enjoying reading the “My Time at Currambena” pieces from our Year 6 Leavers. This Newsletter is Kai’s turn… in his birthday week too!

We are continuing in class with our poetry exploration. Some of us have written out the whole of Rudyard Kipling’s “If -” over the past few weeks and we are continuing to read or recite poems of choice to the group. We have also looked at limericks, acrostic poems and haiku poetic forms so far. I’ll include some in this newsletter.

In Maths, we are finishing off volume and capacity, completing Unit 27 in textbooks and practising times tables as usual. It is fabulous to see how much progress the children have made in all areas mathematical over the term and the year!

PIP presentations for Term 4 have begun and I am hoping we will be able to fit them all in before camp! Topics are as varied as usual and presentations engaging and fun to see.

We were lucky to swim in the outside pool on Tuesday and I can see many of the children increasing in strength and stamina as they swim 100 metres or more each week. We practised diving and safety jumps as well this week. Some of the children are still quite resistant to putting on enough sunscreen… it would be great if you could please remind them at home how important this is now that the weather is hotter and the UV levels high all day.

Thank you to Yulia for her wonderful presentation on Thursday about her career in science. Children are always familiar with professions such as teachers, doctors, nurses, retail but careers in science are less visible. I really appreciate the time Yulia gave us preparing and presenting her session.

I think that’s all for this week!

Have a good one!

Love,
Wendy

I started preschool in 2014, I don’t seem to remember much from preschool. I remember being good friends with Til and always playing with him and a kid named Carter. One memory I have is Patrick coming to school one day with hand sanitiser and saying if you put it on your hands and rub them together and run it makes you run faster. I also remember the huge achievement of climbing onto the cubby house roof in the bottom playground and how excited I felt that day. I remember Wendy’s class being built and I can’t believe that now I’m in the building.

I don’t remember a lot from kindergarten. I was in Jess’s class for two years, well, one and a half as I was away for eight months going around Australia. Sadly, Carter left this year but I made a new friend, Asher. Me, Asher and Til played together a lot that year. I also remember burning Amy with honeycomb. Sorry Amy

I don’t remember much from Rosie’s class. Eitan came and I became friends with him, and we played a lot of running games. In Sarah’s, I remember coming to school with a mullet that my brother gave me and I thought it was so cool until I saw myself in the mirror and everybody called me mullet man, so after school I went to the hairdresser to cut it off. I also remember the chickens. You would get assigned a day with a group of people to catch them and put them in the pen, and if one of the chickens wasn’t found someone would run in the class and yell “CHICKEN HUNT” and everyone would run outside and search for the chickens. We also had our first camp that year.

In Leesa’s it was Covid, and I found it so boring because I wasn’t with my friends. I remember having to make a contraption that was an everyday activity but way more complicated and I didn’t do very well. I remember watching Asher’s and being jealous of how good his was.

In my first year in Wendy’s I became good friends with Soren, Perry, Cooper, Ewan, Alex, Jana and Taal. I remember Soren somehow giving me the nickname of Kikkins and he still calls me Kikkins to this day and I remember calling him Borris, I have no idea why. I remember going to Little River. I went in a cabin with Pablo, Asher, Til and Eitan and there was a thing called Mud Mania where it was an obstacle course with mud covering all the obstacles.

This year, I became really good friends with Cooper and Ewan. In week 7 we went to Little River Camp for the second time. I was in a cabin with Asher, Til and Eitan and at 2am Asher and Eitan ran outside to the fire hose reel and thought it was Pennywise. We also made a movie, “It’s Worse Than Nuts, It’s Bananas”. We also did our last ever play. It was called “Jumanji: the Knockoff”. I had a lot of fun making this play.

My time at Currambena has been great. I love that we don’t have a uniform, we get to have a say in the rules and we get to go up to the shops on Fridays for lunch. It has taught me so many skills and I have been so lucky to have great teachers like Wendy, Leesa, Sarah, Rosie, Jess, Michael and Katrina. Currambena has been great to me and I’m sad to be leaving but also excited to be leaving and I wish all the best to the people still at this great school. Bye.