On Friday 10th November all Junior classes went to the Gould League Sustainability Education Centre for an excursion, and here is what they have to say about the day…
Prep
I liked learning about where rubbish goes - Samantha
I liked finding minibeasts, they were snails and worms - Evelyn
My favourite part of the excursion was the performance, it was where we were learning how to make our own cans - Emiliana
We got to see mini beasts, they were hiding in their shells and I got one snail and two butterflies and one slug! -Ryan
I found snails and slugs and rolly pollies and I shared the rolly pollies with my friends. I enjoyed learning about where rubbish goes and for every six rubbish you throw out there will still be two of them after one thousand years -Arthur
My favourite part of the excursion was at lunch when we played on the playground. There was monkey bars and a balancing bridge and a climbing wall - Alexandros
My favourite part of the excursion was learning about the rubbish and compost. The worms like compost except for the spiders - Heze
We did a play and Samantha was on fire, I liked it when Jamie put the rubbish out. I enjoyed when we went into the compost bin and we saw lots of animals, spiders, butchy boys slugs, earthworms and snails - Harry
1/2 Coral
I liked when we all went outside to catch minibeasts in the garden! We caught a snail, beetle and a woodlouse - Brooklyn & Aubrey
I enjoyed going into the shrinking machine and hearing a story about minibeasts who live in the compost bin! We shrunk into tiny ants! - Eliza
I loved getting dressed up as a earthworm because it was fun lying on the floor and pretending to wriggle along the ground - Ilaria
I liked the part when we were in the compost bin with the really big spider - Athan
I liked when I found some worms in the soil and I looked in the magnifying jar to see the worms up close - Louis
I had so much fun when we all got dressed up and acted out the compost story - Amalia
I enjoyed collecting bugs with Vanessa in the garden - Sarah
My favourite activities were when we got to touch real worms; going into the garden and looking for bugs; going into the shrinking machine and performing the compost bin show - Vanessa
I liked when we got to hold worms on our hands and went into the garden to dig up minibeasts - Oliver
I saw a ginormous spider - Thomas
My favourite activity was when we went into the shrinking machine because we got to see what was actually inside a compost bin - Tilly
I liked all of the activities - Isaiah
1/2 Emerald
I really enjoyed when we went into the compost bin and saw all the big minibeasts that live there - Tilly, Clem, Georgia, Chiara, Mitchell, Mila
I enjoyed catching the minibeasts and looking at them under the microscope to see all their features - Issy, Dylan, Ava, Reuben, Olivia, Michael
I liked when we did the play and had to dress up in costumes like minibeasts - Lachlan, Alex, Noah
I liked picking up and exploring the worms - Jimmy