LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
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Welcome to LA14's blog. Here you will find links to the students' blogs and news about what's happening in our fabulous class and our awesome school.
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
18h ago
It’s only day one of this week and the students already feel like they’ve run a marathon. To be fair, they sort of have. This week we had our annual school cross country race, where the whole school runs around a course specifically set for their year level. It was about a 2 kilometre track ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
1w ago
Well, okay, the title of this post is a little deceptive. Things aren’t really going swimmingly, we are actually going swimming! Last week and this week have all been about swimming lessons and the students have been having a great time at the local pool. It’s been fascinating to see them develop their skills as ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
2w ago
“If only we could include creativity in the way we do Maths.” Don’t listen to the nay-sayers, Maths can be creative and fun. We’ve been doing heaps in LA14, right across the whole curriculum and across all topics. It’s been a tricky year, so we’re working our socks off to catch up and yet forge ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
1M ago
Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. Initially, the year started off great with myself and the students all settling in well together. Unfortunately, following a family emergency in the UK, I had to make a sudden and unexpected trip which brought our great start to the year to a sudden stop. Considering the year ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
3M ago
Five days done (yes, only 5) and you wouldn’t believe what the students in LA14 have already achieved. They’ve learnt to take a breath when they work, take time, look carefully and make sure their work isn’t just “finished”, but it’s also the best possible and it’s also better than their last effort. They’ve learnt ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
3M ago
Another year and another class. Also, another change of classrooms; last year I was booted out of LA1 and sent back to LA14. There was a good reason for this, though, as I’ve changed year groups. This year, LA14 will be a split class made up of year 5 and year 6 students. A split ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
5M ago
The end of the school year has come around once again in Australia. We’re very different from all the nations in the northern hemisphere in that our school year runs parallel to the calendar year. The big reason for this is that our summer starts in December and ends in February (even though the Aboriginal ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
6M ago
Even the best of people need a helping hand now and again. This is even more true when those “best” people happen to only be aged 10 or 11. So, this week we gave the whole of our year 5 students a day of reflective, self-improvement and leadership activities. We had a visit from the ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
7M ago
Last week we left the cozy comfort of our classroom for the hard, basic conditions of one of the earliest settlers in Western Australia. LA1 and the other year 5 classes visited a famous local landmark, the actual home of one of the oldest families in our town. This particular family landed in Western Australia ..read more
LA14 & Mr. Hope's Blog
7M ago
Ask any of our students or even ex-students and they’ll tell you that the best thing about our school are the incredible specialists. We are so fortunate to have specialist Art, Music, Sport and Science teachers, and they’re really the best! If I had to choose, I’d say Music and Art are my personal faves ..read more