Happy Birthday Desiree!

Mega Masterchef!

The goodness comes in thick and fast on wet days!
Great job Henry, Tom, and Desiree!

ISS Presentations Day 3

Yesterday was the final day of ISS ('Inquiring about Space Stuff') presentations.
Below are the highlights from each group…another fantastic array of creative and inspiring research presentations.


Georgia and Isabella - Stars

Emily and Desiree - Meteors etc

Tom, Oliver and Henry - Space suits of the Future

Holly and Erica - Colonizing Space

Festival Choir

Stepping into the CBS Ariena with about 2 hours a head of us and only being able to drink water.

It was long so by the end of the practise I was quite tired. 

Hours later traffic was a nightmare. You could not imagine it. It was a great idea to get out of your car and walk. 

There was a lot of people there and it was kind of creepy having the screen right behind for more people to look at. 

I really enjoyed it, it was a nice way to meet new people and get out of sports. (Don't tell anyone I said that...)

Festival Choir

Today Erica ,Desiree and I went to Christs College for a festival choir rehearsal.It was a rehearsal with the other schools in the festival which is happening on the 31st October( Halloween). We are singing a lot of old songs that we have never heard before mixed with some slightly newer more popular songs. We will be performing in the CBS arena next term. I am looking forward to this because it will be fun to sing lots of different songs with lots of different people. Only I don't want it to come too fast because we have a lot of work to do.

Alex R

Performing Arts

At the moment in performing arts we are doing a dance to Teachers Pet from the movie School of Rock. To be honest, the dance is quite interesting and enjoyable. We have been working with Sandy since the start of term two and we are all loving the time we spend with her.

I can not wait till the performance. 

Desiree Smith.

Girls self defence

On Tuesday afternoon for the last 4 weeks some year 7 girls took a self defence course.We talked about a lot of things to do with self defence including what to do when your being followed and what to do when your attacked.We learnt how to kick properly and punch properly as well. Our teacher told us stories about brave girls stopping attackers.
We are now empowered to take over the world as strong independent girls of the 21st century.

Desiree's Slice

Today as part of the Casebrook Master chef Challenge Desiree brought into school some amazing Belgian slice. This also happens to be Mr Leith's favourite cake. He looked pretty chuffed. It tasted delectable and exotic with its spices and its sugary goodness.
Here is a photo of Desiree's slice:

Belgium Slice Recipe

Ingredients:

               125g butter, softened                             

            1/4 cup brown sugar                                   

     1 egg                                                                 

                         2 cups champion standard plain flour                       

                       1 teaspoon edmonds baking powder   

1 teaspoon cinnamon 

      1 teaspoon groung ginger

  1 teaspoon mixed spice

    1 teaspoon cocoa

Icing;

3/4 to 1 cup icing suger 

1/4 teaspoon raspberry or vanilla essence 

few drops red food colouring water 

Filling;

1/2 cup raspberry jam, approximately

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon,ginger mixed spices and cocoa together. Mix into creamed mixture to make a firm dough. 

On  a lightly floured board roll dough out to 3 mm thickness. cut out rounds using a 6.5 cm cutter.