Last week, Richmond School held its annual Book Week.  We participated in all sorts of activities, including the Book Fair, Guess the Book Character, Guess the Book, Making Bookmarks, Author studies, the Get Snapped Reading Competition, Share your favourite Book and lots of reading!!  The week culminated with the Book Character Parade.  Our entire syndicate decided to dress up as the characters from Alice in Wonderland.  The children were the Card Army!  We looked amazing ..read more

Today we had our Emergency Services Day as part of our whole School Rich Topic about Disasters.  We were very lucky to have the Richmond Fire Brigade, the Police, Search and Rescue and the St John Ambulance visit our school to talk to us and show us some of their equipment.  Firstly, we put our coins on the coin trail.  Next we split up into groups and went to different activities.  Some of us got to talk into the walkie talkies, some of us got to carry a Search and Rescue Pack  (very heavy!), have a look through the Ambulance, pat Pixel the Search and Rescue dog and ..read more

Today we had the Richmond School Cross Country at Rabbit Island.  We traveled out by bus.  We had all trained extremely hard and gave it our best on the day.  Congratulations to everyone who participated.  Many thanks to all the Parents who came out to watch and cheer us on!  We had a fabulous afternoon on the beach after our yummy sausage sizzle lunch and delicious ice block.  What a great day ..read more

In Room 16, we have been watching and waiting patiently for our Monarch butterfly's to emerge form their chrysalis.  About three weeks after the caterpillars changed into a chrysalis, we began to notice the chrysalis changing from green to black.  After 3 days, we could see the beautiful butterfly wings through the walls of the chrysalis, and then finally Monarch's emerged!  It took a few more hours for their wings to dry before they were finally free ..read more

Welcome to a new school year with Miss K1 and Miss K2!  We are very excited to be back teaching in the Junior Syndicate in Room 16.  We have a wonderful group of Year one and two students in our class.  Come and have a look at our blog and see what we have been up to ..read more

We had our Syndicate end of year outing at The Animal Farm today. Here are a few photos to show you some of the lovely animals we saw.  Geoffrey the pig. Yarnie ..read more

Today we made some pine cone Christmas decorations ..read more

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We tried our costumes on today. Don't we look great ..read more

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