Currambena school blog

Hi everyone.

Not very much to say this newsletter because I’ll be sending families a detailed email with information about camp next week! Very exciting!

During the past week, our Year 6s have been working hard with Chris to create their Year 6 Leavers’ project. They will work on it again today.

Orientation Morning went really well and we had a fun morning in our room with the 19 children who’ll be in this group next year. Welcome to Caetano, who will be taking over from Vinnie.

We have been tidying up some maths topics, such as data and chance, and we have been preparing a presentation about Australia for a connection with a school called Heartland Academy in Nepal, which a couple of our children have visited. One of the Heartland classes has prepared a presentation about Nepal and we are going to share ours on a Zoom meeting this afternoon. Very exciting.

Many thanks to Paul, Rebecca, Alex and Simon (especially) who drove us to Macquarie for ice skating yesterday. It was a fabulous excursion and everyone had great fun. Thank you Simon for stepping in at the last moment!

Tomorrow, Friday, I will take a small group with me to shop for groceries for camp. Please make sure you are at school between 7am and 7:30 am on Monday to help pack the trailers and gear and then be away from the “no parking” area by 8:30. We will decide on car groups tomorrow.

Fingers crossed for a sunny week next week! Have a good one.

Love,
Wendy

My time at Currambena began when I was three years old, I started in preschool in the same year that Katrina started.. I remember being really sad when my mummy left me at preschool for the first time. Chris (Price) taught me a secret strategy on how to not be sad by thinking of a list of things that young me would like to do. She showed me how to make tectonic plates and I thought it was the best thing ever. I also especially liked to build dams in the old sandpit that had a water pump.
Then kindy came. I had three teachers: Sue, Tammy and Jess. I don’t remember much about kindergarten, just that there was a chicken called Fluffy. I learned to climb up on the old cubby house roof and made a cardboard city. I was a cheetah in the school play.
And then it was time for year one. I had an amazing teacher called Marius. I remember making little rockets out of who knows what but it was fun. We dissected cows’ eyes for “SCIENCE”, made potions, and walked down to the magic bridge and sang a song. We had a class pet called Blizzard the lizard who we may or may not have sent down the silver slide….. I also chaired school meeting with my friend Miro.
When I moved to year two I had a nice teacher called Sarah and remember that in term two I went 24 units ahead in my spelling book, just because I could. I also remember that I did my Personal Interest Project (PIP) on the Black Death and needed 250 words but only got 249 words and was annoyed.
Then I moved into Leesa’s class for years three and four. It was Leesa’s first year at Currambena. I went on my first ever school camp to Mowbray Park. I was scared but It was so fun! During our class play in year three, I had to say a huge line about the Gold Rush and I only had two days to memorise it. In year four, there was a build week where we built the jacaranda treehouse, the tunnel at the gate (that you hit your head on) and the treehouse. I loved that week. And then C***D came and we were all stuck inside. My friend Jana and I were the last kids standing at school.
Then Wendy’s class came…… The first thing I can remember was Little River camp. It was so much fun. My friend, Miro and I were “sea dogs” because we capsized everyone’s boat. Then came our uninvited guest C***D (DO NOT EAT BATS) and cancelled our school trip to Canberra. And we were back into lockdown. AGAIN!!! But Wendy was always available for questions and Gladys’ magic number. Three of my classmates and I participated in an international conference with Derry Hannam. My project was about aviation in WWII and he told me a story about living next to the airfield where spitfires would take off. We went to Jervis Bay camp – I don’t remember much about that camp except when my friend Kiyanush put his swimmers on over his tracksuit pants.
This year, in year six, we finally did get to go on school camp to Canberra. It was great fun and I especially liked going to Questacon. There were TVs in each room!
And now we’re here, about to finish year six. My family and I are moving to Albury-Wodonga and I will be going to Trinity Anglican College for high school. My visit days there went well and I’m looking forward to the move.
I’ll miss my friends but will hopefully make plenty of new ones at my new school.
Thanks for everything, Currambena! From Peregrine