NIE Quiz

On Thursday night at Devon Intermediate, Jacob, Casey and William will take part in the NIE Quiz, in teams of 4, Jaz and Angel (Rm 14) and Casey and William in one team, with Jacob, Dayna and Victoria (Rm 9) and Brendon (Rm 14), as well as a group of year 5 & 6's. They have been using the past two days to study general knowledge and the newspapers, as well as atlas's, to get ready for the quiz on Thursday Night. Good Luck to all teams!

Poems

This week we have been working on poems, using hyperbole, similies, metaphors and personification! A year 8 student, Nikolao has written some amazing poems that we want to share with you today!

Me, Myself and I

I'm so thirsty I can drink a whole pond,

As well as the ocean,

But more wider and long.

As dark as the night,

As green as the leaves,

Sometimes I wonder,

Where should I be.

So when I grow old and wrinkly and dry,

That will be the place,

Where I'll live my last life.

Though when the time comes for me to go,

I will watch over those people,

Who are lonely and old.

Beach

As I walk on the beach,

With my feet so bare,

I suddenly see seagulls dashing through the air.

I feel so excited,

I'm going to drop,

But the swish and the crash keeps telling me not.

The sand dunes so high,

And the rocks are so low,

I'm begging you sand,

Can you please let me go?

I feel like I'm trapped in this wonderful beach,

because my excitements so strong,

That it won't let me screech.

But I really cannot stay here for long,

because home sweet home is where I belong.

Both poems by Nikolao!

Well done Nikolao, your poems are great!

Welcome To Term 4!

Welcome back! Yes we're back at school for the last term of 2009, for some the last term for Bell Block School, as all of our year 8 students say goodbye at the end of the year. This term is packed with a lot of exciting things, with our annual camp to Vertical Horizon's next week, and speech competitions, and a lot more. We also welcome Brenda McCarthy who has taken on the role of helping some students in our class, after the sad goodbye to Toni Parkes last term. We will be updating this blog again this term with all the exciting things we want to share with you!

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