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Friday the 14th of August 2009

Contents!
 Sport!
 Camps!
 Puzzles!
 School
Photos!
 Biggest
Morning Tea!
 Food!
 Science!
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 M.A.G.S
On Tuesday Sport!
the 28th of July
Year 5, 6, 7,
and 8 travelled
to Yarrawonga
for the sports The 100km club is up and
day. We all running again, with many
participated in students and teachers well on
a range of the way to getting 100km. This
sports that year swimming and bike riding
included table is included but the kilometres
tennis, you swim and ride have to be
football, converted so that they equal
soccer, netball the same to if you were
and vortex. We walking or running. If you ride
were all four kilometres that equals to
divided into one kilometre of running and
teams of about one kilometre of swimming
eight and equals four of running. Good
played all of luck!!Everyone and Happy
the sports running!!!
against three
other schools.
We all had a
great day and
thank you to
Alex Cheal has been
all of the
selected to represent
teachers who
the Victorian Under 17
came with us.
Girls Soccer Team. Alex
has been going to
tryouts and was
selected in the
travelling 16. Great job
Alex.
 M.A.G.S Camps!

Camp survey:

This survey is from the 7D

class: 24 people.

QUESTION:

Do you like our school

Camps?

Here is interview with Courtney Perry and No’s = 5 people.

George Hall. In their 2009 year 7 camp at
Yes’s = 7 people.
Borambola.
Sometimes= 12 people.
Did you have fun on your camp and do you think we
should have had more days there?

C.P: Yes I did enjoy the camp and no I don’t think we

needed more days there because it was too hot.

G.H: Yes I did have fun and I don’t think we needed

more days there, it was long enough.

Did you like the activities and what were your

favourite ones?

C.P: Yes I liked all of the activities especially the

flying fox and swimming in the pool.

G.H: Yes I loved the activities. Rock climbing and

kayaking were my favourite.

Did we need more time to do the activities?

C.P: Yes we needed more time to do the activities

but they were all fun to do. Each year each year level has a camp.
G.H: No I don’t think we needed more time to do the The year 5s and 6s swap each year from
activities. I think we got a fair amount of time to do Anglesea and Sovereign Hill.
it all.
Year 7s go to Borambola.
Do you think the food was good and what was your
favourite meal? Year 8s go to the Grampians.

G.H the best food was the chicken spicy wraps with Year 9s go to Portland.
salad but there was some great food on the camp.
Year 10s go on careers camps.
M.A.G.S
Puzzles!

F R I E N D S A L T

P U I C G D T K E E

I W N T L S D C V A

H Q X A Z A H N J C

I A V E N T S G Y H

S T U D E N T S F E

T R H S I L G N E R

O A M A T H S H K S

R G E O G R A P H Y

Y L A P I C N I R P

R I T A L I A N M C

G W T S C I E N C E

Fun English Student

Friends Italian Maths

Events History Tech

Classes Geography Art

Teacher Science Principal

 M.A.G.S The School!
Some new chairs that we got
all around the school.

The canteen. We are able to have

canteen three times a week, on Monday,
Thursday and Friday. The orders go to
The Principal of Moama
the Moama bakery and they make the
Anglican Grammar School,
food and bring it over to the school.
Mr. Andrew Pullar.

Administration Building

An art piece from the 2008 Artistic a.

At the moment we have construction workers

working on stage three of the building plan. We
Workman at the new site of the buildings in
are getting a new canteen behind the foods
progress. Working all day long.
room, new classrooms and the administration
building is getting extended.
M.A.G.S Biggest
Morning Tea!

The Biggest Morning Tea was a

great day where people brought in
cakes of all kinds to sell at a stall.
The stall was run by members of
the SRC committee. Everyone
brought lots of delicious food. A
raffle was also run to raise even
more money with the prize being
one of two giant Kit Kats, made by
Mrs Downie, weighing about 5 kg.
The prize was won by two lucky
winners Carly James and Imogen
Allan. It was a fantastic day, with
lots of money raised and everybody
enjoyed it.
 M.A.G.S Science!
We have 2 science
laboratories and we
have one double
class each week in
there doing lots of
experiments and
learn heaps. We also
have one theory
class were we study
practical reports and
experiments that we
have just done in our
double lesson. We
learn about the
laboratory
equipment and
TRY THIS EXPERIMENT. different elements of
Chromatography Of Food Colouring science.

You will need

• Food colouring (that is made up of several colours – check the label on the bottle)
HAVE FUN
• Filter paper
• Watch glass WITH
• Scissors SCIENCE!!
• Capillary
• 250ml beaker
• Pencil

Method

• Cut a piece of filter paper approximately 10cm by 3cm.

• Rule a line in pencil 2cm from the end of the paper.
• Place some food colouring on a watchglass.
• Use a capillary tube to place one drop of food colouring on the centre of the pencil line on the
filter paper.
• Pour tap water into the beaker to a depth of 1cm.
• Stand the filter paper so that the end just dips into the water. Make sure that you keep the
dot of food colouring out of the water.
• Fix the filter paper to a pencil to hold it in the water.
• Let the filter paper stand until the water has risen almost to the end of the filter paper.
• You could repeat this experiment using Smarties instead of food colouring (Mix a Smartie with
one drop of water in a watchglass until the water is brightly coloured and place the drop on
the filter paper.)