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Colonisation Conversations
Riverside students in Year 4 examined the life of
Indigenous people before and after colonisation.
Trinity Hart had this to write about colonisation,
"Colonisation means the start of a new
community. The first colonies to start in Australia
were made up of British people, convicts,
explorers and free settlers. In 1788, the British first
fleet of ships had 1500 people and 60 000 convicts.
These kept arriving until 1868. The first colony was
in Sydney."
Chelsea Roberts looked at the differences for the
lives of Indigenous people before colonisation and
after colonisation. "We discussed how they used to
make lots of things and get a lot out from nature.
Like materials for their homes, cooking equipment,
clothes, musical instruments and food."
Noah Martin had this to say from wha t he had
learnt, "The British people forced them to change
and live like white people. I don't think that was
right."
The class also
enjoyed designing
and making
Indigenous model
shelters which they
also showed to
Year12 students
who had lots of
wonderful encouragement and feedback for
Year 4 students.
Miss Davie and Mrs Wendt
JUNIOR COLLEGE News
Athletics Carnival—Junior College
There will be two separate Athletics Ca rnivals this year.
Junior College will be divided as follows:
Prep to Year 4 will be held at the College on Friday 27 July.
Years 5—7 will be at the T inana Athletics Oval on Friday 27 July.
Parents should drop students in Years 5—7 at Tinana Athletics Oval
between 8:20am and 8:40am and collect them from the Tinana Oval
before 3:00pm.
Students who regularly use College buses will be collected as
normal and taken to the Tinana Athletics Oval.
Comments from Year 4
“School Camp should be great! Years 4 and 5 from Rivers ide are
going to School Camp on Monday August 27 until Wednesday
August 29. I am really excited. There are going to be fun activities
like giant swings, archery, bush skills and orienteering. That is a lot,
isn’t it? We sleep there for 2 days. We will get there on a school
bus. Adam Bull said, “I am very happy about going on school camp,
it should be great.”
We will sleep in separate rooms for boys and girls. It will be at
Mapleton in the mountains. We are all looking forward to it.”
Written by Kynan Machen 4W
“The Amazing Disco! The College disco on Thursday June 14 was
incredible and heaps of people were there. There were two funny
dances, they were the Chicken Dance and the Macarena. It was at
the Hall from 5:30pm to 7:30pm for Prep to Year 5. At the end of
the disco we all got a packet of chips and a popper. They had a
Photo Booth that was $1 per person or g roup. Rose Browning‐Reid
had this to say about this years disco, “I wouldn’t change a thing
about this years disco.” “My best friend went to the disco. “ said
Jorja Hood. People worked very hard to organise the disco. There
was a fog machine on the stage. Three teachers were there to
judge on how good people danced. Not everyone got a prize for
best dance. Everyone had fun. You should have been there.”
Written by Paris Berry 4W
“Awesome Brolga Time! Every Tuesday heaps of people from the
Riverside Ensemble group go to the music room with Miss Kathryn
Marshall to practise for big events. Like when we went to perform
at the Brolga, they all had to practise like crazy. Beth Dale had this
to say about the Brolga, “It was sort of nice and my favourite songs
were Tumba and John Ryan’s Polka.”
Written by Rika van Gerrisheim
Junior
College
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