Today our Year 7 Health students were familarized with “Shocktober” and the Call Push Shock kits that were created in partnership with the Heart Foundation and Ambulance Victoria. Bree, Andrea and Rob introduced themselves and their roles with Ambulance Victoria as members of a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Ambulance Community Officers (ACO) and a trainee paramedic. After a quick quiz review of the dangers of vaping and revision of DRSABCD, the students were introduced to the Chain of Survival so that could develop the skills and knowledge to help in a medical emergency. Amongst numerous challenges, they had to demonstrate checking for danger, checking for response, and checking for breathing. These skills were designed to build confidence and capability to recognise a cardiac arrest and take the lifesaving action of calling Triple Zero (000), starting Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) immediately and shocking with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). Students learnt that if a patient is breathing, the Triple Zero call taker may ask them to roll the patient onto their side recovery position. The take home message was that anyone can save a life in 3 simple steps: Call, Push, Shock • Call Triple Zero (000). • Push hard, push fast, on the chest between the nipples. • Shock using an AED. Continuing our great collaboration with HDLN, our Year 3/4 classes were inspired to write Love Letters to the Land and My Letter to a Tree as part of literacy unit celebrating 25 years of Junior Landcare There’s an old saying, “you know you know something when you can explain it to someone else!” To reinforce the farm safety messages our Year 5/6 students have been hearing, and to learn about digital technologies, animation and story telling, we invited Gareth Colliton and Alex Francis from One Day Studios into our classroom. Gareth described the educational and skill-building opportunities that One Day Studios provides for digital creatives at their digital arts and technology media hub under the Silver Ball in Warrnambool such as producing cartoons, illustrations and movies like Mabel and Stitch. Students reviewed the storyboard ideas they had considered to share farm safety messages and decided on their sets and what assets, such a vehicles or people, needed to be created for their movies. Figures and props were then crafted from foam or fabric sheets, paper and foam clay to use in their dioramas. Next week Gareth and Alex will return to help complete the details and outline how to shoot the animation. Can’t wait! WorkSafe Victoria have noted that farms are the most dangerous workplaces in Victoria and this is further compounded as farms are often both workplaces and residences. The Year 5/6 TAP into Farm Safety field trip gave students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and reinforced their learning about the importance of farm safety as previously introduced by WorkSafe Officer, Alison Dennis. During their excursion to Ocean Road Pastoral, students rotated through 5 workstations, learning about safety in the dairy with Bruce Vallance and Issac Fynn while Trevor Croft (Greg Allan Farm Machinery) explained the risks associated with farm machinery as Andrew Berry (Ambulance Victoria) and Liz Steel, Nullawarre (Community Emergency Response Team - CERT) taught DRSABCD. Safe animal handling practices and zoonoses were outlined by Jordy Vallance (Ocean Road Pastoral), supported by Jess Harmsworth (Bega) and Jill Sabo while Alison Dennis outlined the correct storage and handling of chemicals and safety around silos and crushes. After demonstrating their knowledge with a quick quiz, students enjoyed Stringers supplied by Jess from Bega. Thank you to our presenters for helping to keep our kids safe! It's pretty cool when your Grandmother is invited into your classroom as an expert on mini beasts and you can proudly watch as she describes the family business and the way they take care of their bees. This is what happened in the Year 1/2 classes this week when beekeeper, and Grandmother, MaryAnn Pender from Timboon Honey visited our classrooms as part of the Mini Beasts investigations. MaryAnn described the various roles of the different bees in the hives and students could answer MaryAnn’s questions about the role of bees which included making honey, wax and pollinating flowers. Students saw how the hexagonal honeycombs were filled and bees emerging from eggs including a queen bee but learnt that previously new queens were mailed to the Penders for new genetics from bee breeders but that now they breed their own. The class was impressed by the processes and automation that Timboon Honey used to extract honey and wax from the hives and the way the hives were transported to different locations to access flowers to keep the bees healthy. Un-bee-lievable! Following their field trip to Power Creek where our Year 3/4 students were inspired, as well as challenged by Kate and Lyndell from HDLN and Jason from the Timboon Field Naturalists, the classes have composed their own Love Letters to the Land. During this Junior Landcare campaign the students were invited to connect with the natural features in our immediate area, including around our school, their own environs and they reflected on the field trip to Power Creek. The lesson was designed to help children think about why the land, the flora and fauna is important to them – and to identify a small action they can take to help protect, improve or enhance their local environment. This activity also encouraged learners to share their letters with a wider audience and promote caring for and protecting the environment on an ongoing basis. Our students have used special letter templates and have entered the Junior Landcare competition to potentially have Costa Georgiadis visit our school. Fingers crossed! Thanks to a switched on Ms Poustie, we were fortunate enough to receive funding from a Woolworths Landcare Grant that was used to purchase two worm farms and kits for our Year 1/2 Schoolyard Safari unit. Not to waste an opportunity, we contacted environmental educator and owner of The Place of Wonder and REAL Pizza and Pasta, Kylie Treble, to help us learn about worms, caring for them and setting up a worm farm. Accompanied by REAL staff member Camille Gottlieb, Kylie created a series of activities that our students rotated through as they explored what worms need in their bedding, how worms move, what foods worms don’t like (milk, oil, onion, lemon and chilli) the size of the food they do like to eat and how everybody needs worms! After these fun activities Klyie and the students constructed the worm farms with bedding, then soil, our purchased worms, Kylie’s own garden worms, and a jute cover that acted like a doona to tuck the worms in to keep them dark and safe. A little bit of water was added and the students will add kitchen scraps once a week to keep them healthy. What a great addition to our Schoolyard Safari family! As part of their Mini Beasts unit the Year 1/2 students are also looking at sustainability so ‘Wrapped with Love” owner Dianne Membery introduced the students to beeswax wraps which can be used in the place of cling wrap or paper. Students learnt that Dianne mixes the wax with jojoba oil and pine resin to help make it flexible and sticky to adhere to the cotton material and food it protects. Dianne demonstrated that the students had to use their ‘super hero muscles’ to grate the wax blocks over cotton material before it was melted in an oven. The students then brushed the wax out evenly over the cotton and proudly took their beeswax wraps home. We were even more ‘wrapt’ to see many beeswax wraps return to school the next day safely holding school lunches. What a buzz! Congratulations to Year 5/6B and Ms Burnett whose story was recently reported in the Warrnambool Standard. "Chook-mad kids who desperately wanted a class pet knew they were onto winners when their first egg was a double-yolker. Elated grade five and six students from Timboon P-12 School have come home champions after winning a blue ribbon for their informative poster and the overall primary school prize - based on points - for three of their chooks at the Melbourne Show's School Poultry Competition. Grade five student Imogen Woods said it'd been "an amazing experience". It was very exciting when we first found out," she said. "Our little chicken babies have come real far since we first got them. Our first egg was a double-yolker. "The good thing about the chickens is they have different personalities. Chirp is lazy and relaxed, KFC is more adventurous - he goes in the bushes - Queen Pecksalot is just bossy, T-Rex is like KFC but a little less well-behaved, Little Johnny is just little." Teacher Carly Burnett said the children would be allowed to keep the five chickens - which would be on display at the upcoming Camperdown Show - and some of the older students were working on building a larger cage. "They were all very much involved in the process, they took turns looking after them and it's been a very good bonding experience for all the children involved," she said. "The kids were just so determined, they really wanted that classroom pet. "They have such a love for these chickens, it's ridiculous." Ms Burnett explained the school came first by accumulating the most points based on different categories including how many eggs were laid during the show, information on the poster and overall quality of the birds." We would like to thank Pat Wallace who faciliated the School's entry and to Ben Boyd from Ridleys Agriproducts for supplying bags of Growers and Golden Yolk pellets for our prize winning chooks! Check out our judging sheet below TAP’s On! in 2022 was cited as the best once yet so we are excited to invite our school community, parents, industry guests, educators, government and industry organizations to TAP’s On! 2023. Our curriculum expo, TAP's On! 2023, is an interactive, peer led demonstration of what we have accomplished this year in the Timboon Agriculture Project (TAP) across our P-12 campus and demonstrates how agriculture and community engagement is integrated into our curriculum through different interactive classroom and off-campus activities. Check it out on Thursday, 9th November. |
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