Friday, May 20, 2011

The Australian Flag

At assembly this morning, Mr Randall, a member of parliament, visited our school to present us with some new flags. One was the Australian flag and the other was the Aboriginal flag. He spoke to us about what the different parts of the Australian flag mean and later on, we wrote about them in class. You can read some of them on our writing blog. We learned that:

  • we have a Union Jack in the corner of our flag, because we are a colony of Britain,
  • the seven pointed star is called the "Federation Star" and it has 7 points, which represent the states and territories of Australia, and
  • the group of stars on the right is the Southern Cross which is a special constellation that can be seen in the southern hemisphere, which is where Australia is.
Last year, our school participated in the Coles Sports for Schools programme. Our friends and families collected vouchers when they did their shopping at Coles and then we could spend them on sports equipment. We managed to collect 38,000 vouchers and our order arrived this week! We unpacked it all and took some photos. We feel very lucky to have so many new things and we can't wait to play with it!


As a special treat this afternoon, our class visited the Year 7 classroom. In a few weeks, our school is having a fair and the Year 7s will be having a face-painting stalll. They needed some volunteers to practise on, so Mrs N volunteered us. It was lots of fun!





Love from The Smarties and Mrs N

10 comments:

  1. What did you learn about the aboriginal flag? What does it look like? Why do you display both flags? Do you think New Zealanders should display the Maori flag in public places like schools?

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  2. @ Munchkins

    We'll be learning about the Aboriginal flag next week, so keep a eye out for that post!

    Love from The Smarties

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  3. Wow!! Looks like you got some great new sports gear! Congratulations, Smarties!

    Also, your face painting looks great! Keep up the good work Smarties, your blog is so fun to read!

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  4. Dear Smarties, We really enjoyed looking at your blog. Mrs E read some of it to us. We hope that you enjoy reading about our class too.
    Love from the Tiny Teds :)

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  5. The face-painting is very good. I don't recognise anyone!

    Paige's Granny

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  6. Dear Smarties,
    Your faces look awesome. I enjoyed looking at your blog. Your blog looks great. We have done face painting before. What did you paint on your face? Did you have fun?
    From Dayna

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  7. Dear Smarties,
    Your faces look awesome. I enjoyed looking at your blog. Your blog looks great. We have done face painting before. What did you paint on your face? Did you have fun?
    From Dayna

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  8. Dear Smarties
    I like your face painting.It looks great. I had my face painted as a treasure map and i did the face paint by my self.

    From Yunus

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  9. To Smaties,
    All the face painting looked good by the year 7s. I liked the bats on the kids faces. Was there a boys store and a girl store?
    From Darcy

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  10. TO THE Smarties
    I like your face paint. You should of seen my face pant i had a dog painted on my face.
    from Riley

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