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Entries are NOW OPEN for the Final 2010 Schools Writing Competition. Students from all over Australia are invited to enter their short stories OR poems and battle it out for the great cash prizes on offer!
Submit work on ANY TOPIC and in ANY STYLE. There is no theme, though they are looking for stories and poems that really GRAB [...]
When I was growing up my favourite drink was a raspberry float (raspberry spider), not because I wanted to do science, it just tasted great. Next term our Science unit is going to be ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases’ and a fun way to get started is to create one of these drinks at home.
Creating a gas (or [...]
Well done to all those who have completed the reading survey. It has provided me with a great deal of information that will be very helpful in understanding your needs.
Below are some links to some author/book web sites that are fun and useful and will help promote your love of reading.
The Read Kiddo Read web [...]
I was checking my email this evening when I noticed that James had left a comment on our new Feedback page. When I opened the email my eyes almost popped out and on to the floor. The words Short Story, PUBLISHED and PRIZE seemed to zoom off the screen. Well done James and good luck [...]
This weekend I had the chance to go to the Wild Australia Expo 2010 at Sydney Olympic Park. There were so many animals that it would be very hard to list here. Instead you can have a look at the photos in the gallery below.
I unfortunately took only one picture of ‘The Bug Man’ and [...]
This type of pin hole camera (no film) is called a camera obscura, Latin for “dark chamber”. The first camera obscuras were small rooms that were completely dark except for a tiny hole in a wall that let in a dot of sunlight. People in the room saw a image of the trees and sky [...]
The following Easter Egg Hunts are great fun. They are all made by different people around the world using using the GigaPan website. GigaPan allows users to upload, share, and explore brilliant gigapixel (very very big) images and panoramas from around the globe.
Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out
The Mad Hatters Bunnies have escaped… Can [...]
Light travels in straight lines from its source. While it looks white to our eyes, light is made up of a whole spectrum of colours. Our eyes can see only a small portion of the entire spectrum. We see light as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and violet (Roy G. Biv).
When light rays move from [...]
World Maths Day is on NOW! Can we unite to break the world record?
CONGRATULATION EVERYONE ON YOUR WONDERFUL EFFORT
YOU ANSWERED ALMOST 30 000 QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
This year features an exciting new format with multi-levels for all age groups. Can we beat last year’s world record of almost 2 million students from 204 countries correctly answering [...]
This is a very difficult puzzle: There are five people – Holly, Cameron, Julieanne, Alex and Jackie. Each one stole a special cookie of their favourite brand which was kept in a jar. Each person ate it in a particular place and drank their flavoured milk with it.
Jackie is next to the person who eats [...]
