Cavedon’s Cool 6CC

Well, that’s what the 2010 School Captains were there to find out? It wasn’t that hard to find, to be honest there was the Mayor of City of Casey, Cr Lorraine Wreford, Paralympian gold medallist Don Elgin and lots of council staff.  Ms Cavedon kindly took us – Sanja, Justin, Emma and myself ,Mason, to the Cranbourne Community Centre on Wednesday 10th March where the guest speaker Mr Don Elgin inspired us all with his speech about how he got to where he is now. (He was born without the lower part of his left leg and has represented Australia in the Paralympics games in Sydney and

Athens). He told us to never give up and to believe in yourself. If you set goals which are hard to achieve you will have your down times but when you reach your goals it seems to be the best feeling, whether you feel scared or not. You can nicely cruise along in life but if you think to aim high, your life is very interesting. All the school Captains of schools in the City of Casey were there.

For me, personally, it really made me think about how to look towards life, it gave me a different perspective on all things and it certainly made me think that there are people out there just like Don without a leg who are less fortunate than us, which I knew, but it hadn’t really struck me until I heard his story. One last thing, never take anything for granted; we probably all have, I know I have, but at least think about things before you do anything wrong.

http://www.donelgin.com.au

By Mason

This morning the TODAY crew came to Barry Simon Reserve and we got to watch them do the show.  We were  in the show crowd and every time when Emma said the weather report some of us got to be on television She also danced a surprise cha cha dance with professional dancers. The muffin break team came, we had muffins, coffee and sausages for breakfast and a muffin man mascot was there.  There was a prize of $500 for the best poster made about the TODAY Show and someone from 2LG won the poster competition.Everyone had a wonderful morning and wished the TODAY Show crew could stay longer!!!

Joanna

On the 17th of February 2010, the Today Show  came to Endeavour Hills at 5:30 in the morning! Nearly the whole shcool was at the Barry Simon Reserve and half of them made a poster representing Mossgiel Park and the Today crew to win a prize of  $500! The  lucky winner was Amal  in year 2LG from Mossgiel Park Primary School.

They gave out free muffins and coffe with  a free gift bag. Most people got achance to be on T.V with their posters , they also got a signture from each one of the hosts and took photos. There were also 4 dancers and they did a FABULOUS dance, it was AWESOME! 

Hosna, Yalda, Marya

This term 6CC  have been learning about technology,when we were learning about  technology , some of the things we did were: we looked at inventors, wrote about inventions , looked at how electricity works (electricity boxes), learnt about gears and cogs and the BEST was taking apart household appliances and seeing what was inside.  After all that fun work Ms Cavedon decided that we should have even more fun so she enetered us in a competition called the Engquest project. For the Engquest project we could be in a group or pair. Engquest is a competiton where the groups choose an activity off the website, then they make it and hope to win.

Nadine

This year the year sixes have been involved in a program called ruMAD?  This stands for ‘Are You Making A Difference?’  The ruMAD? program is where you choose somthing  you could be involved in to make a difference in the world.   The year sixes chose poverty and homelessness on Victorian Streets.The year sixes and the teachers have chosen things to do that involve the whole school, such as 5 cent donations, Guess the Marbles in the Jar competition and ‘in your shoes program.’

5 cent donations – Classes collect 5 cents and on Friday they are collected and counted, the winning class is rewarded a Special Lunch provided by our School Canteen.  We raised over $60o in donations.

Guess the Marbles in the Jar - People from 6CC would take the jar with the marbles in it around to all the classes, and if they wanted to guess they needed to pay 20 cents.  The winning guess won a special science toy donated by Ms Cavedon.  We raised $60 in this competition.

In Your Shoes Program – Students and parents would donate unwanted shoes, or shoes that were to small for them.  Over 60 pairs of shoes were  donated to the homeless.

Sarah

6CC has been doing a lot of cooking lately!

We made many things including cake, muffins and even ice cream! We made these muffins because they were a part of our Earn and Learn costs.  We  calculated the costs of all the ingredients and cooking the muffins and then we talked about how much you pay for these in the shop. We  decided to try making these muffins because they might be good to be sold at our new healthy canteen.  

How to make savoury muffins.

Ingredients

¾ cup of milk

4 tbs oil

1 cup grated cheese

¼ cup parmesan cheese

50g chopped ham or 1/2 cup of zucchini

2 teaspoons sweet chilli sauce

1 egg

1 3/4 cup self raising flour .

Method:

1. Pre – heat the oven to 180°c

2. Combine milk, oil, sweet chilli sauce and eggs into a bowl and mix.

3. Sift the flour into a large bowl and add cheese and ham or zucchini

4. Pour milk mixture to flour mixture and mix until combined (DO NOT OVER MIX)

5. Place mixture inn muffin pans and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown

6. Allow it to cool down

7. Enjoy

Most of us enjoyed the muffins.

Zahraa said “The muffins were excellent and delicious!!!”

Robert said “They were nice and I would try them any day!!”

Sarah said “I loved them because it had so much flavour!!!”

Over all, everyone loved the muffins and if you’re reading this article you better write out the recipe right now.

By Poojani & Mariam

Great way to make cash, you might think right? Well you’re wrong! It’s not as easy as you think…….It’s like in real life!

6CC has started a new program called “Earn and Learn”, focusing on how to use,handle and spend money wisely $$$. The program includes learning about what we are going to go through as young adults. We earn what we call “Mossies” which is fake paper money as opposed to real money. Every week the children in 6CC fill out our pay slips, which include:

• Positions of responsibility
• Base wage
• Tax
• Superannuation
• Rent

And the list goes on and on!!!

 Also, to add on to this huge summary, we also get to make our own businesses! Hope all goes well!

By Joanna & Zahraa

Welcome to 6CC’s blog.  Through this we will be sharing what we are doing in our class and the exciting things that are happening in our school.