Plane Designs

While Mr van Wyk was doing the hard yards and getting down and dirty with plane construction these past few weeks, I was taking the soft option and having the kids design their own wing decals using Publisher.

This was meant to be a review program, as they were using all the skills taught to them last year when they were making their For Sale Posters, but it was surprising, as well as more than a little frustrating, that for so many of our students it was almost like starting from scratch. I guess it's true what they say - "Use it or lose it."

Nevertheless we came through it with some stand out designs for our plane wings, and hopefully have reinforced those skills another degree or two! Here are just some of the designs the students created...
Room 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 10...

Paper Planes

Well, this week saw us wrap up our Paper Planes Learning Program. I think that it has been a great success, and I know that many people out there will agree with me, although perhaps not Mrs Racevskis, who more often than not ended up clearing the runways of all the planes that didn't make it!

To help us celebrate the end of the program, Dylan Parker (World Paper Plane Champion and inspiration for the Paper Planes movie) came down to Narrogin and took us through some of the finer points of construction. He also gave us a Science lesson about the principles of flight. Very handy indeed!

Here's a full colour shot of the page that's going into our fortnightly Newsletter this week...