On Thursday the whole school finished for the year. In Middle P we were still recovering from the class party and it was made worse by we had to move all the tables from our room because it will not be a classroom next year. We moved it into Miss Kemp’s old room. Her class in in one of the two new portables. Then it was all done. Then we had to continue our Christmas activity’s until snack. Then the rest of the day went very quickly for me. In no time it was time for assembly. We finished at 2:30pm because it was the last day so we had a bit longer assembly. We went out a 1:50pm. We sang the national anthem for the last time this year with pride. I was lucky enough to get one of the last crossing awards. Then, we anticipated the bell. 5,4,3,2,1………. Byron said. Then this was it…… “Frosty the Snow Man had a carrot for a nose”. What?!, I thought. Then “Ding, ding, ding. School Over I said. And that was my last second of being a Middle Unit student :). Let’s get ready for next year!

Today [20/12/06] we had our class party. As always some people had to bring savoury  food and some sweet. We had to volunteer. I had to bring sausage rolls. “And in the savoury corner, from parts of Geelong we have: Sausage rolls, Chicken Nuggets, Salt + Vinegar chips, Little Boys, Pizza, Cheese and Ricotta rolls, Sandwiches and Cheese and Biscuits! My Nanna brought them in just after 1:00pm which is the time the party started. They were nice and warm. I thought they were yummy as well. So we were all ready. Party time! David. R got the first thing on the savoury table. He got my sausage roll. We were only allowed 2 things at a time. Then we got to go back 3 times and on the 3rd you could get a soft drink. To choose from there were: Solo Lemon+Lime Tang, Sarsaparilla, Orange Crush, Lemon Crush and Raspberry. I had a mixture of Sarsaparilla and Solo. It tasted like licorice and lemon!

Then we could dig into the sweet stuff. “And in the sweet corner, also from parts of Geelong, we have: Matchsticks, Chocolate Cake, Caremal Silce, Truffles, Honey Joys, Pikelets with whipped cream, Christmas Cakes with lollies on top and there were a few more but I forgot! [Sorry to all those people who’s food I didn’t say :). It was great fun and I’m sure there would be some creaky floor-boards and bloated tummies tonight!

Today [Monday the 18th] we went to the Barwon Valley Retirement village. We had to walk all the way and Mr Pearce was worse than my Mum at telling us how to cross the busy roads! “In lines of 4 thanks”, He would say. Also there was a few creaky floorboards coming from near Nick! [Middle P students and Mr P you would know what I am talking about]. We stopped under a shady area to have snack and just over the road from the retirement village. Then once we got inside Mr Pearce started playing his trusty guitar. The first song that we sang was, now I can’t remember! My favourite song that we sang was Sadie the cleaning lady. Then after we had sang all the songs I had to go out the front say, “I hope you have enjoyed all our little songs and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas.” It was really fun and I enjoyed it. Then we went to the park to have lunch and I played cricket after that with some friends. Then we had the long trip back to school. Isn’t it funny that the trip back always seems longer than going to the place?

Yesterday the whole school got their reports for this year. I was really looking forward to reading mine……. for once! I got to read mine early because I went home early. At assembly last week Mrs.Warren said a “C” should be celebrated. For all you adults, it is not like when you were young like A- B+ and other stuff. An A means you are well above the standard for this time of year. B means above the standard for this year and C, that means you are at the standard for this time of year. D means below and e well below. I hope nobody got a d or an e. I am really happy with my report and i’m sure everybody else is as well. Looking forward to next year even more now!  

These last couple of terms we have been called up to either the computer lab or the classes classroom to help them with, setting up Wiki’s or blogs and Power-point presentations. Mostly all of the Middle grades are doing a Power-point with pictures with speech bubbles [see more on that on Maddy’s slide called “Our Little Slide Shows”]. We have been called this term about 3 times to 3 classes. Most of the teachers now Mr P is the tech-head in the Middle Unit [I know I certainly do]. But it is fun to show how do do this and that to other classes. But Middle unit classes, “Don’t worry because Middle P Is Here!”

Middle W have now moved into their new portable. I told you about the new portables in an other post on this blog when they were being put up. Well now, they are ready for use. Middle W moved in to their new home on Friday. There is an other portable and the grade moving to that one is Middle K. On Thursday I had to put some of Middle W’s stuff out of their old room and into their new. The new portable smells nice as well. It looks good and I hope they will enjoy the rest of the year in there.

I these next few couple of weeks we will get our reports. I belive what Mr P is saying. I think Nick should be scared and be afraid, very afraid :]. As Darth Vader would say. “Come to the dark side Nick”. Well for my report, well, lets not go there! Reports are always good because you can see were you have improved and were you you need to improve on. As Nick said, the marks go A,B,C,D,E I think. Today Mrs Warren said we should celebrate getting a C because it means you are doing very well. Be afraid Nick, very! [OOHHHHH].

When the year ends and by the time we come back a bit of the school will be totally different. Next year the staff have decided to build a new Senior learning unit. It is going to be built where the staff room is which is down the corridor where Mr Whiteside’s room is and the preps. Also, one half of the breeze way will be for science working and another side just to walk out on. The toilets are going to be different as well. They are going to be new so we will get rid of those smelly ones.

The staff recently went to another school to get an idea of what our school would be sort of like. All the grade 4’s saw a little movie of it and it looked really cool. Also, Mrs Warren [our principal] showed a little layout from a birds eye view. There is going to be a deck to outside, two drinking fountains in the room, and these funny looking chairs and different tables. We also get 10 laptops to go in the classroom to do work on.

The way it lookes it will be fantastic. The only thing is that it won’t be ready till term 2. Ohhhhhh. But when it’s finished, I’m sure I will give it 2 thumbs up!

The past 3 weeks we have been working on some yummy Homework. And by that I mean we can actually eat it. Now thats unheard of. Our food had to include a block solid and a liquid, a powder solid. I made Hedgehog. It was really fun. Most people have brought something.

In three weeks time it will be the last day of school for the whole year! We finish on the 21st of December which I think is a little too close to Christmas but it’s okay. I’m sure everyone agrees that it has been a long year but a good one. As the weeks creep closer the weeks seem to quicker! Has anyone else noticed that? But when school ends, I’ll be happy that the year has finished, but sort of sad to say goodbye to the beloved Smart-board. [Oh, and also Mr P, but he’s not exactly beloved…..]

On Thursday, 30/11/06 it was Miss Mosley’s last day. She was our student teacher from the U.S. Miss Mosley was in Middle P for a few weeks [actually is was a bit more than a few weeks] and then she moved to Mrs Barry’s class. Yesterday we had a big party for her last day in Mrs Windle’s classroom. Mrs Barry’s class came together with ours and Miss Mosley made us some sort of biscuits that sort of looked like Wagon Wheels called Oreos. In them there was peanut butter sandwich between Ritz crackers. It was yum. There was also snakes and gummy bears. Then Miss Mosley gave us all a cellophane package. It had a fruit chew and a pencil plus a sticker. We will miss you and Goodbye and Good-luck!

Isacc.H! Yep, on Tuesday our own school election was on. The 6 candidates were Myself, Dylan.S, Isacc.H, Hayley.W, Kira.S, Harley.E. Isacc won by a close margin over Hayley who came sprinting to the line at the end to pip Harley who came 3rd. I myself, came 2nd last with 14 votes. All up, it was a fun and great day and well done to Issac.

Last night [25/11/06] the Victorian State Election was held. It was between Steve Bracks who is the premier and Ted Baillieu. All the votes were tallied up. And also you can see all about the election on this blog and I will give it to you at the end. Now, back to the election.Yes, most people guessed it. The Labour Party won again. Yep, Steve Bracks still has the golden key to Victoria. There was big hype about this election and there were billboards and posters all around the place. Our school was a poling booth and many other places were. So Steve Bracks beat Ted Baillieu and the Liberals. Here is the place on this blog to go to find about this Election.

On Tuesday the 21/11/06 we had a school election. And it wasn’t about who we thought would win the state election. The reason was to get 6 candidates and vote for the one you would think would make a person who would make Bellaire better. What we did first is Miss Brebner read out who was going to another classrooms. Then we went to our selected grades. I was in Mrs Thomas’ class. First we did a closed eyed vote to see who would be one of the 6 candidates. We wrote everyone’s name on the board. I won by 1 single vote! Our name was the Ministers. Joel.G thought of the name. The other 5 candidates were: Dylan. S, Harley. E, Issac. H, but those are the only ones I can remember [I’ll come back and edit and put in the other 2].

This Saturday there will be a state election and it will be for Victoria. The 2 candidates are Steve Brakes who is the Premier for 7 years now and Ted Baillieu. Steve Bracks is running for the party called the Labour and Ted Baillieu is running for the Liberals. Our school will be a voting booth and it will be in a Multi-Purpose room.