Heyy, over there!
Havent spoken to you all in soooo long!!
Bree has a dog! He is very cool!
Caitlin and I do not play golf,, as we are more into the AFL Football over here.
Golf is a good game though and we havent played it in a while!
Some aussie sayings over here include:
G'Day --> Hello/Hey
BBQ/Barbie --> Barbeque
Bloke/Fella --> Boy/Male/Men
Chicks/Babes --> Girl/Female
Ace! --> Excellent!
Bloody Oath! --> That's certainly true!
Brekkie --> Breakfast
Cark it --> Dead/Died Carking it --> Dying
Brew --> Beverage
Chokkie --> Chocolate
Cozzie --> Swimming costume
Cranky --> Angry
Dag --> A funny person, nerd, goof ---> JUSTIN BEIBER!
Doovalacky --> used whenever you can't remember what something is called
Hoon --> Hooligan
Mate --> Buddy or Friend
Mozzie --> Mostquito
OZ! --> Australia
Reckon! --> You Bet!
Rack Off --> Go away!
Sheila --> A woman
Vejjo --> Vegetarian
Yobbo --> An uncouth person
Hopefully we will remember to come online more often!
Talk to you all later.
Bree and Caitlin
Catch Ya!
(See you later!)
Monday 7 June 2010
Friday 11 September 2009
Hello Perth
Hi,
It's been raining here as usual!
We have watched your PowerPoint and we loved it. We will send you pictures of our school. We have recently had a new ICT and PE block. Our PE block is above our ICT labs and we can hear the PE pupils running about.
We noticed that Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii!
We can't surf over here because the sea is too cold. One of our pupils, Scott, likes to slide on ice. Do you get ice and snow over there?
Andrew wants to know if you play golf? He plays golf at Torrance House Golf Club in East Kilbride.
Our class were talking about pets
Rachel has 2 dogs
Andrew has a dog
Jennifer has a dog
William has a dog
Michelle used to have a hamster
Isaac has a dog (a lurcher)
Lauren has a hamster
What other activities do you do?
Have the pupils got any pets?
Can you tell us some Australian sayings and we'll guess what they mean?
It's been raining here as usual!
We have watched your PowerPoint and we loved it. We will send you pictures of our school. We have recently had a new ICT and PE block. Our PE block is above our ICT labs and we can hear the PE pupils running about.
We noticed that Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii!
We can't surf over here because the sea is too cold. One of our pupils, Scott, likes to slide on ice. Do you get ice and snow over there?
Andrew wants to know if you play golf? He plays golf at Torrance House Golf Club in East Kilbride.
Our class were talking about pets
Rachel has 2 dogs
Andrew has a dog
Jennifer has a dog
William has a dog
Michelle used to have a hamster
Isaac has a dog (a lurcher)
Lauren has a hamster
What other activities do you do?
Have the pupils got any pets?
Can you tell us some Australian sayings and we'll guess what they mean?
Thursday 13 August 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Friday 5 June 2009
Hi
Hello to Southern River College again.
My Administration class have created a slideshow telling you guys a little of what we do in Hamilton.
We look forward to seeing more about Australia!
My Administration class have created a slideshow telling you guys a little of what we do in Hamilton.
We look forward to seeing more about Australia!
Saturday 28 March 2009
Hello Again!
Hi there Mr C!
That's great about getting more classes involved. I'll try and get an English class who want to share their ideas with your students in SRC.
I can see the whole Faculty system that we are adopting here in some Scottish schools exists there in Western Australia. I think I will need to write a letter to your PM to ask him why there's no Business/Accounting/Economics on offer! I'll bet they're very popular subjects at University and Further Education Colleges! LOL
Our Headteacher, Mr Stewart, asked me to create a podcast to speak to you guys (I didn't have time to get my pupils to do it on Friday, but will do so in future). So anyway here it is:
http://memberdata.wildvoice.com/Big_Roch/media/GDayOz28032009.mp3
I hope youe students can understand my accent.
Audacity, the free software we use for podcasting, can be dowloaded here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
You can also look at or download my own little help guide on how to use it here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4107349/How-to-use-Audacity
Anyway, no BBQ for us I am afraid. Anyway look forward to your next post!
That's great about getting more classes involved. I'll try and get an English class who want to share their ideas with your students in SRC.
I can see the whole Faculty system that we are adopting here in some Scottish schools exists there in Western Australia. I think I will need to write a letter to your PM to ask him why there's no Business/Accounting/Economics on offer! I'll bet they're very popular subjects at University and Further Education Colleges! LOL
Our Headteacher, Mr Stewart, asked me to create a podcast to speak to you guys (I didn't have time to get my pupils to do it on Friday, but will do so in future). So anyway here it is:
http://memberdata.wildvoice.com/Big_Roch/media/GDayOz28032009.mp3
I hope youe students can understand my accent.
Audacity, the free software we use for podcasting, can be dowloaded here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
You can also look at or download my own little help guide on how to use it here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4107349/How-to-use-Audacity
Anyway, no BBQ for us I am afraid. Anyway look forward to your next post!
Thursday 26 March 2009
Hi everyone
I am in the process of linking up two teachers and their classes to write to you. One is a senior school English class the other a 4th year IT class.
I thought I might answer some of your questions in the meantime.
Our school uniform is white and dark blue, the students designed it themselves a few years ago. it is a choice of a polo top or white short sleeved shirt, no tie or blazer. Most student wear shorts or skirts for most of the year. It never snows here! We have a separate PE uniform.
We do 5 periods a day each about an hour, we start at 8.40 and finish at 3. We have school 40 weeks a year.
We study in 7 areas, English, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, Technology (IT, Home Ec and Design and tech) Arts (art, music, drama, dance media and music) and PE. Can you spot which subject we don't do?
The school is 30 years old and has 600 odd kids from 12 years old to 17.
Students must stay on campus all day so they cannot go out for lunch, most bring sandwiches and eat in the gardens, a lot also buy from the canteen, which only sells healthy food. that is a law here. So no chips or fizzy drinks.
The canteen is really an area to buy food with room for 12 odd kids to sit down it is not really necessary to eat inside here due to our climate. It is a great new facility maybe one of the kids will send some photos if you ask them. We have had 6.5 million dollars spent here recently to do the place up.
The students skateboard, go to the beach, play sport or go to the shops in their spare time, I am sure they will be able to tell you more.
Most of our kids are local area intake so yes they live locally.
As far as being an Eco school, we are heading that way, so we would like some help and advice from you. We are currently upgrading our science labs to have two industry standard labs to train students in college certificates. One will be a rock sampling lab, as we do a lot of mining in WA, iron ore, copper, zinc aluminium gold etc. So a lot of Eco stuff has to happen to rehabilitate the area afterwards. We work with the local mine here and planted 12 000 trees last year for them and worked with the council to save the local river. Our kids have to do 20 hours community service in 3rd year.
The other lab will be wet for soil and water testing and aqua and horticulture and hydroponics.
We have solar panels fitted which we haven't used yet but will do soon for testing and teaching purposes.
Best wishes to all of you, hope to hear from you soon. It is going to be 36 degrees here today that is almost 100. So the air con is on. I will be having a BBQ for tea tonight what will you guys be doing and how is the weather?
Best wishes
Mr C
I am in the process of linking up two teachers and their classes to write to you. One is a senior school English class the other a 4th year IT class.
I thought I might answer some of your questions in the meantime.
Our school uniform is white and dark blue, the students designed it themselves a few years ago. it is a choice of a polo top or white short sleeved shirt, no tie or blazer. Most student wear shorts or skirts for most of the year. It never snows here! We have a separate PE uniform.
We do 5 periods a day each about an hour, we start at 8.40 and finish at 3. We have school 40 weeks a year.
We study in 7 areas, English, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, Technology (IT, Home Ec and Design and tech) Arts (art, music, drama, dance media and music) and PE. Can you spot which subject we don't do?
The school is 30 years old and has 600 odd kids from 12 years old to 17.
Students must stay on campus all day so they cannot go out for lunch, most bring sandwiches and eat in the gardens, a lot also buy from the canteen, which only sells healthy food. that is a law here. So no chips or fizzy drinks.
The canteen is really an area to buy food with room for 12 odd kids to sit down it is not really necessary to eat inside here due to our climate. It is a great new facility maybe one of the kids will send some photos if you ask them. We have had 6.5 million dollars spent here recently to do the place up.
The students skateboard, go to the beach, play sport or go to the shops in their spare time, I am sure they will be able to tell you more.
Most of our kids are local area intake so yes they live locally.
As far as being an Eco school, we are heading that way, so we would like some help and advice from you. We are currently upgrading our science labs to have two industry standard labs to train students in college certificates. One will be a rock sampling lab, as we do a lot of mining in WA, iron ore, copper, zinc aluminium gold etc. So a lot of Eco stuff has to happen to rehabilitate the area afterwards. We work with the local mine here and planted 12 000 trees last year for them and worked with the council to save the local river. Our kids have to do 20 hours community service in 3rd year.
The other lab will be wet for soil and water testing and aqua and horticulture and hydroponics.
We have solar panels fitted which we haven't used yet but will do soon for testing and teaching purposes.
Best wishes to all of you, hope to hear from you soon. It is going to be 36 degrees here today that is almost 100. So the air con is on. I will be having a BBQ for tea tonight what will you guys be doing and how is the weather?
Best wishes
Mr C
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