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The following articles have appeared in our local papers recently:
Brighton prep students make "smart moves"
Prep year students from Brighton State School scooped runner-up honours in the recent Suncorp SunWise Smart Moves Challenge for Prep to Year 3. Schools were asked to send in a 90 second video clip showing the physical activities their class, team or friends participated in. Brighton was named runner-up for their exercise dance "Mousercise". Students won a Wahu Ball pack with football signed by Shane Webke.
Learning not only found in the classroom
Brighton State School's school chaplain Wayne van Wijk is not only provinding encouragement and support to the students but also the local wildlife.
Mr van Wijk recently built a new home for a mother and joey possum who were found sheltering in a gutter on the school
roof.
"I ducked home and made a nifty possum box for them to live in and found a suitable tree and tied it in place," he said. "The box can also be observed from a classroom balcony, so the kids can still be part of things from a safer distance."
Mr van Wijk said the mother possum was a little hesitant about entering her new home. "Mum didn't go in but opted to sit on the branch outside the box. let's wait and see if they return to the drain, stay in their new home or leave altogether."
High on rocket science
Future astronauts? Brighton State School students launched these rockets to 57 and 45 metres to land nearest their targets during an educational extension activity recently.
It was part of a program
about alternative means of propulsion in science in which students built water rockets from soft drink bottles, then sent them off to see whose design would travel furtherest. Isn't science fun?
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