Dr Barr's Medical Talk

On Tuesday 8th of May, Dr Melodie Barr came to talk to the senior school ahout 'The Brain'.  This was for our topic, 'The World of Medicine.' First she talked about the basics of brain. We had a quiz about different types of brains. We found out that dolphins are the most intelligent animals in the animal kingdom.  The human brain has a lot of folds so it is very complex. Dr Barr also told us that a living brain is so soft that it can be cut with a butter knife! We were taught how the MRI scanner works. Dr Barr played us a video about a person going into the MRI scan. It is a big machine with a magnet rolling inside. People lie in and photos are taken of their insides. It is very noisy inside so the person wears headphones and they listen to music of their choice. We really loved the interesting talk with Dr Barr and learnt a lot from her.

By Catherine and Paige

Our amazing camp expereince

Archery            

Archery was a challenging experience for us all. It was complicated because you have to be very skilled and quite strong to haul that string back. You had to have good aim and good eyesight, some of us did, some of us didn’t it was amazing. We were very excited because it was our first time doing archery.

Eating

For our morning tea and afternoon tea we ate other peoples baking the baking was like a dream world of lovely food. Michael’s luxurious smooth and silky chocolate cake was the best of all we were lucky to have such delicious treats to help us keep our strength up.  

Eric and Michael

CAMP ADVENTURES

SONSHINE RANCH FLYING FOX

Swooping through the trees on a huge zipline flying fox is one of our Sonshine Ranch favorites. You get a harness connected to a carabiner and fly across a valley of trees and ferns. You may crash into several trees on the way across and back. But don’t worry, they won’t hurt that much!

PIKELET MAKING

Smelling a golden brown pikelet steaming like the sun on a hot greasy pan was a treat. The delicious pikelets were a delight for the Year 5 on Camp at Sunnyhills Schools. Flipping the drops of sunshine and watching them bubble makes us very hungry. Yummy, squishy, mushy pikelets oozing around our mouths.

By Kyla, Adam and Gill