Wesburn Primary School

The last week of term is always an exciting time as students and staff look forward to a break.  I’m a little unsure that all parents are as happy about this as we are, however it is a great opportunity to snuggle up by the fire and watch a few DVDs or find some other [...]

The latest newsletter from the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has arrived. Packed with information about a number of schools in the program, tips in the garden, and successes in the kitchen.
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If it’s a good idea, why not try it ten times the size?
It’s an attitude that gets some people into trouble, but with this game the result is a lot of laughs. Giant Pick-up Sticks is that old-time favourite, except instead of little yellow plastic sticks, walking canes and crutches on a table-top, we at [...]

Meet Freddy – our friend in the Seasons for Growth program that started at Wesburn today. Seasons for Growth is a grief and loss program designed for children to help teach that grief is a normal, even valuable part of life. It will run over the next eight weeks in our junior school, and helps [...]

As part of our local shire’s sustainability focus Wesburn recently undertook an audit of our litter, rubbish and recycling.  Part of that was a count of litter and rubbish around the fenceline of our school. We found so little rubbish around the fence that the council asked us – how do we do it?
Well the [...]

This week our kids really loved two of the recipes in particular: Potato Gnocchi with Roasted Pumpkin and Burnt Butter and their Rhubarb and Almond Tart. You’ll have to scale down the quantities, unless you want to feed a classroom of kids, but here are the recipes!
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What we eat represents almost a third of the greenhouse emissions each of us are responsible for. By growing our own food we can all make a contribution to bring down these emissions. Not only will you be doing the planet a favour, but you will also be eating food that is better for [...]

Parents who come up to the school could easily be concerned at the state of our teachers at the moment.  They appear dazed, glassy-eyed, pale and ‘zombie’ like.  Not so, they are in the middle of ‘burning the candle at both ends’, that is, they are working on their laptops many hours before and after [...]

If you were dropping off students to school on Monday morning, or if you attended assembly, you would be well aware of the disappointment we are all feeling at the moment. Someone (or someones) currently unknown ripped out approximately 18 of our rose plants in the retaining wall along Wylie Street sometime over the weekend. [...]

Are you smarter than a 5th grader? One of our class teachers set their class this challenge, and forwarded it on for the web.
The challenge is on – can you open the spreadsheet? smarterthana5thgrader1

This is a real 5th grade math problem. If you can open the spreadsheet, you’ll see that only a [...]