Dad's arvo 2009 was a huge success. It started at lunch and went all the way through sport and the afternoon.
A whole range of dads came from K-6. We had a special menu for the day. We had cheese and bacon pies, potato pies, sausage rolls and roast beef and mushroom pies.
One of our animations made with Sam Animation software has been added to the gallery on the Sam Animation website. This was created by a group of year 3 and 4 students.
Yesterday year 5, 6 and 4 went to choir at Shellharbour Worker's Club and we sang 10 or more songs.
There were 5 schools that had to sing with us, but of course Mount Terry was the best. Mrs Pearce and Mrs Boyd put a lot of work into this and we thank them for helping us succeed and become great singers.
On the night we were all so excited and couldn't wait until it was our turn to sing. We felt the night was great but went really quickly.
Our favourite songs were "Pictures of you" and "Twisting by the pool", they were great songs and exciting.
When it was time to sing we were all so nervous and were smiling all the way though the night. We were so excited and at the same time felt like stars.
We have been having a fabulous week celebrating book week.
On Monday Bruce Whatley and Rosie Smith visited our school and spoke to the students about how to write stories and draw and shared some of their favourite books.
I liked looking at the pictures of Smudge the dog - Aaron 3B
The best part was looking at all the original drawings for the books - Kacee 3B
It was interesting to see how to draw faces and cartoons - Ben 3B
I loved the Looking for crabs story - Candice 3B
I like how Bruce Whatley puts his family in his books - Courtney 3B
The Looking for crabs story was funny because the crab was hiding under the rock - Riley 3B
It was interesting because Bruce Whatley showed us how books are made - Teneal 4K
I thought it was fun to have an author read stories to us - Kaylee 5N
Our Book Fair is continuing throughout the week. As you can see it has been very popular.
On Saturday 22nd August a trusty band of parent, student and staff volunteers got together to erect the Mount Terry Hen House.
Mr Baxter had prepared the area, removing shrubs and levelling the cracker dust (thanks to CEMEX). It was then compacted, whilst other assembled the shed (thanks to the P&C). More folk were digging trenches around the edge and using the post-hole digger to prepare the ground for the post.
Once the posts were cemented in, the sheets of corrugated iron were dug into the ground and fixed to the bottom to prevent foxes digging into the yard. Mr Twist was busy paving the inside of the shed, while more helpers nailed wire around the structure’s sides and top.
After five hours work, we have a hen house which is very near completion. Thanks go to the following… Leanne, Peter, Tony, Zac & Tayla, Darren & Bill, David, Anthony & Chris, Richard, Jack & Murray, Mark , Sarah, Georgia-Mae, Jasmin, Jean, Graham & Darren, Stuart H, Stuart D and Grahaeme.
Again thanks go to all those who have donated timber, wire and other building materials which have made this project possible.
