As we have found ourselves in the remote learning space again, may I say thank you for your patience and support that you are giving your children while we they are learning from home. The students have been extraordinary in their engagement with the online learning and are quite proactive in joining in our daily Google Meet sessions.

Prior to online learning, this term, the students were immersing themselves into poetry writing, experimenting with acrostic poems, alliteration, rhyming couplets, cinquains, free verse and haikus. We have also been extending our knowledge of figurative language.  Below is some of the work that they have produced.

The students have also been participating in the Bocce program. This has enabled our students to not only learn a new sport but also give them the opportunity to have conversations in Italian with the members of the Bocce Club. An experience in which the students have expressed much eagerness and enthusiasm. Thankyou to Mrs Manuele and Ms Gelagotis for the time they have put in to make this happen. I hope you enjoy reading some of our poems and delight in some of the photos taken at Bocce.

Mrs Bramstedt & Year 5/6IB

Cinquain

By Indee

 Winter

Cold, chilly

Hailing, snowing, raining,

Coldness is freezing my brain up,

Season.

Green

By Joshua A

 The green grass is like cabbage

in fields with broccoli.

Green is lime snakes climbing

up trees to get parrot eggs.

Green is forests with trees

and lush plants. 

Green

by Jack D

Green grass flows with the

wind as limes fall from trees.

Kermit the Frog dances in the thick long green

grass next to a green parrot's nest.

Green is like the green leaves

on the palm trees.

Green cordial drips down my face as I lie

under the green palm trees shading my face.

My Paradise

By Nicholas

 I listen to the silence of grasshoppers

and crickets jump all around.

I look out at the springtime plants and

flowers that lay in the meadow.

Little lizards scatter about the

lime coloured fields,

while birds fly chirping in the clear, sunny sky.

Bottle green grass blows in the wind, as

sage coloured apples and pears grow on

the dark green leaved trees in the orchid.

Grapes nearby grow wild on a field right on the

outskirts of the place I call paradise.

The sunsets in the warm, red, orange

coloured sky, bringing the day to an end.