Soft Toys

We did some great work and Miss Hopkirk gave us a soft toy each to keep for the day. We are so proud.

Concert

Our students, Sei Yeon, Y3, and Jenny ,Y5,(on the photo) played the violin at the School Hall yesterday. The concert was amazing. Milford School students have once again demonstrated the talents and the results of hard work throughout the year.

Different Stages of Writing a Book report

We have been learning how to write a book report. Our group did it throughout term 4. We have done different activities e.g. K-W-L Chart, Matilda picture, Character Grading, Word Find, Summary writing, Discussion, Proverbs, On-line comprehensions and etc. We will be watching the movie soon. We have made the Matilda Book Marks, too. We studied about Metaphors, Personification and Similes in Matilda. We were listening to the book CD and read it together. We have enjoyed reading the book and doing the activities. We are proud to put this on the blog.
By Harry and Kevin

Matilda book report

This book report has beeen written by Y6 ESOL students at Milford School, who have been going to an English speaking school for less than a year.

Matilda is a genius girl, who reads lots of books. She teaches herself how to read and longs to read books.She has a brother, Michael and mean, dishonest parents.Matilda’s father, Mr Wormwood, sells the second-hand cars illegally, and Matilda doesn’t like it.As her parents get mean to her, she decides to punish them. She borrows a parrot (Choppy) from her friend, Fred, to scare her parents. Finally, Matilda’s parents asked her to go to school.She went to the school with the worst headmistress ever. While Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress, treats children as stupid dogs, Matilda meets the kindest teacher, Miss Honey. Miss Honey wants to know how much Matilda knows about basic multiplication. When Matilda says she knows all of it, Miss Honey is surprised. Miss Honey asks Miss Trunchbull if Matilda could move her to higher grade, but Miss Trunchbull refuses. After that, Miss Honey brings some hard books for Matilda to read while the others are learning multiplications. A few weeks later, when Miss Trunchbull comes to her class to teach them, Matilda sees Miss Trunchbull treating class badly and she makes her first miracle by making newt jump on to Miss Trunchbull.
Miss Trunchbull thinks Matilda put a newt in her jug, and keeps being mean to her. When Miss Honey tells Matilda that Miss Trunchbull is her aunt, Matilda comes with a plan to scare Miss Trunchbull away. Matilda asks Miss Honey about Miss Honey’s dad and Miss Trunchbull’s name. Matilda practises her plan again and again with her eyes. When Matilda is used to her power, Miss Trunchbull came to Matilda’s class to check them.
When Miss Trunchbull punishes Matilda’s friend, Matilda uses her power to write a message to Miss Trunchbull, pretending to be Magnus, Miss Honey’s father and Miss Trunchbull gets scared and runs away. Miss Honey gets her father’s house. By that time, Matilda’s parents get sued and try to run away to Spain, and Matilda gets adopted to Miss Honey. And they lived happily ever after.
By Grace and Steve

Keeping ourselves safe

Today a policeman came to Room 13. He wanted to tell us how to be safe when we cross the road. We practised how to cross the road and how to press the button on the traffic lights. I felt special because I got to go into the police car and pressed the sirene. Did you hear the noise?

Making Korean Fans

My mum came to Room 12 yesterday to teach us how to draw and paint on the Korean fan. My mum is an artist. Room 12 people enjoyed it. It wa s really fun. Miss Hopkirk was impressed with our work.

Korean Puppet Show

On Thursday, 8 November, the whole school went to the school hall for a Korean Puppet Show. There were five puppetiers and seven different puppets. They told us about each character. We liked all of them, because it was awesome and amazing. We all giggled, because the first time it was really funny. We knew they had practised hard. The costumes were beautiful.

The real show will be at Bruce Mason Centre.

school trip

We went on a boat trip. The boat was called The Tiger Cat.
Its speed was very fast. So I got sea sick. First we had a photo on the steps. But the sun was on everybody’s face. We saw the Sun Princess. Its sister was the Sea Princess. I remembered that The Sun Princess can go to England.
The boat was huge and beautiful. A thousand people could go in it! We went under the Harbour Bridge. First The Tiger Cat went slow then it went fast. I went outside and inside, out, in ,out, in, out. Then it was time to go to school.

Multicultural Club

At Milford School every Friday lunchtime at 12.40 we go to room 9 for a special Multicultural Club. Around 14 of the same people come every week to learn about different countries & their languages. Some of the countries we have learnt about are Mexico & Korea. We have learnt some of the basic words from their countries such as hello & holla etc.

Near the end of term three, a lady from Taiwan came and cooked some food from Taiwan. It was yummy!

Some of the rescores we use in multicultural club include books, computers & talking to people from the specific country.
We put together posters with translation pictures, facts & more. We are proud of our work that we did this year & hope to learn about many more countries.

loud shirt day

Today is the Loud Shirt Day. Everyone was wearing bright shirts to suport the deaf children. The teachers were wearing bright shirts,too.

different cultures

We are studying different cultures. We have learnt a lot about countries, people, tradition, customs and food....Today we had a shared lunch. It was sooo yummy. We liked all the food.

weekend recount

Shared Lunch

Some of our friends went back to Korea. We had a little party at Room 9. Miss Hopkirk gave our friends the certificates. It was sad to see them go.

Orienteering at Long Bay

ORIENTEERING AT LONG BAY

On Wednesday 29 th August Rooms 1, 7 and 8 went to Long Bay. We went by bus. We went in the morning. We went to learn about Orienteering and map reading.

When we arrived we got out of the bus and listened to Mr. Chapman talk about maps and the road. He said “ Don ’ t go into the sea or on the road! ”

We had a Group. It was Grace and Sian and me. We went round and round on the Course. We went to find all the clips. We ran on the Course.

I was tired because it was so hot and the grass was wet and muddy. We couldn ’ t find the clip because the last clip was hard. We asked someone where the Course was. Then we found the Course, but not the last part of the Course. Then Grace found the last course.

Then we all finished Orienteering. Everyone got back on the bus and we drove back to school. When we arrived back at school it was lunchtime. I was very tired! I think Orienteering is fun.

ESOL at Milford

At room9 there is a class called ESOL. ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages. We have nearly 60 children in ESOL. We have nearly 30 cultures, and they are from Korea, Palestine, Philippines, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, Germany, Brazil, and more countries!

My name is Eugena and my class room is room1, I am a year5, and I am from Korea. I have studied so much, I was bad at English, but now I am better at English because of the kind teachers. At ESOL these are the teacher’s name: Mrs Stanojevic, Tracey and Mrs Philips. My first teacher Mrs Philips second was Tracy. Then it was Mrs S.
I love all the people from ESOL.

The Book Parade

Room 16 dressed up as Punks. Here is Joon, Eunji and Gio. Joon's hair is purple and blue. We liked dressing up.