Australian Students visit Y2

St Andrew’s had some visitors from Australia who came  for an exchange with Y11 students.

On Wednesday, April 13th, three students from Jean Paul College, from Brisbane, visited us. They made a short presentation showing the Y2 kids interesting facts about their country. They taught them the most dangerous animals: Blue ringed octopus, Box Jellyfish, Sharks, Eastern Brown Snake and the Saltwater Crocodile.  They also showed them the typical food of Australia  like: Vegemites, Meat pies, Tim Tams and Lamingtons.  Moreover they presented them, the most popular places in Australia:  The Opera House in Sydney, The Harbour Bridge, and the Great Barrier Reef.

They cooked with Y2 students a snack or dessert called Lamingtons. This snack is very popular in Australia and it is a piece of sponge cake dipped in chocolate sprinkled with some coconut.

Sass Times members interviewed these three Australian girls asking them some questions about what they thought about our country.

They thought that most of our food was the same like: Barbecue sauce. They loved “milanesas”.

We think that this exchange was a great idea and it was a very rich experience. Y2 students learnt a lot of facts that they didn't know about Australia, as they are reading Letters to Felix by Annette Langen, Constanza Droop where students learn about different places around the world.

Watch the Australian students interacting with Y2.

A Visit from Australia.

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The So Waited First Interhouse!

El interhouse de fútbol, el primero del año, se llevó a cabo el sábado 12 de marzo en el Campus del colegio.

Este InterHouse fue muy importante ya que Fleming y Brown cortaron la racha ganadora de Monteith que llevaba ya 6 años. Aparte de esto, los alumnos de 6to que están en Fleming, volvieron a ganar la final contra Dodds por 2da vez consecutiva.

Como sucedió el año pasado, algunos de los ganadores dieron la vuelta olímpica.

Los resultados finales del interhouse fueron:

4to : Dodds

3ro:Monteith

1ros: Brown & Fleming

Fleming no solo empató con Brown por el título general, sino que también empató con Dodds por el título masculino.

Los alumnos de 6to grado estaban tan entusiasmados porque era su primer interhouse que  decoraron el Campus más que otros años, con banderas, pinta pelos, serpentina y maquillaje de los distintos colores de cada house.

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An Exciting Camping for Y4!

In the month of October, an exciting camping took place.  Y4 spent three days in Villa Gesell and carried out some fun activities.

     
They left school early in the morning and traveled by bus with their equipment. The trip took 6 hours. When they arrived at the camping site, they explored the environment and met their tutors who talked to Y4 about the rules and instructions they had to follow during their stay. 
Once this was over, the children split in their groups and put up the tents.

 
 At night they went to a big hut to have dinner that was cooked by a chef. After every meal, every boy or girl had to wash their own dishes. Next, all Y4 reunited in the hut and went to play night games that were very amusing. When they went into the tents to sleep, a group had to evacuate due to a red ants invasion.
What a fright!

 On the second day, all Y4 went to an exciting expedition to the beach. There, they played fun beach games, including sand-boarding. During the night of the same day, they had a surprise party prepared by their tutors with games and music. This trip was an excellent opportunity for Y4 students to strengthen their friendship bonds and make new friends. In conclusion, this was a wonderful experience.

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Dash in Action!

Sasstimes has prepared some interesting videos that show you what this incredible, interactive robot can do when it is programed with the different apps. 

Here are the links to watch Dash in action!

Video One: Showing what to do with the app Go!

Video Two: Dash reacting to the app Path!

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Y6 Students Visited the MuPSA!

During the month of August, Y6 students visited the MuPSA, which is a museum that shows you interesting historical facts about St. Andrews. It was a way of commemorating the 177th school anniversary. It is located in Perú and Belgrano streets.

Click on the following link to learn more about St. Andrew's history and the MuPSA

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Meet the New Interactive Robot at School

Good news, a fun interactive robot has arrived at school! It is called Dash. You can do many things with it. You can program it to obey your orders or play with its lights. You can also make it follow a path you create, making noises on its way.

There is also a complex programing app called Blockly, very similar to Scratch. You drag and drop puzzle pieces with orders that make Dash follow them. Below there is an example of the instructions you can create.

Come back for some more news.

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Nature Club in Action

Nature Club Started working

Nature Club has been working very hard since the beginning of the year. These are some of the projects they have been working on:

• Colourful piggy banks to separate bottle tops by their colour.

• Flipping bottle tops tied to a string into a plastic water bottle

Keep reading for more exciting projects after the holidays.

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Visual Art in Action

Visual Art started creating amazing logos for other committees.

These are the the steps they took to create them.

• First they drew all the ideas they thought about 
• Then, they decided which were the best ideas and they scanned them into the computer
• Next, with all their ideas defined, they put them all in the same poster and, they had their final draft created.
• Finally they added colour and printed it.
• Visual art is doing this with all the committees.

These are the logos they have already designed:

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