Hello room 5.
I'm not sure if anyone checks the blog anymore seeing as the last post was in February, but I just wanted to say how much high school sucks!
Constant homework, long bus rides, and cold mornings.
I've only visited casebrook once, and am sad to say that our height chart in the girls cloakroom has been destroyed along with the rest of my hopes and dreams.
Since I'm too lazy to check the blog, (not very) Merry Christmas and a sad new year that will bring more homework and self hatred.
Also it's my birthday in 24 days, marking another year of non-existence for me. yay.
-Jacqui Neil, right honourable narcissistic cat queen and professional mud wrestler

High school here we come

Hello,it's jacqui,aka ghetto queen jacqueeshah and I would just like to say  (even though barely anyone will read this) that some of us start  high school in 2 days. This means that we are officially not going to be a class  at casebrook anymore. This is quite upsetting as we all made some really awesome friends and learnt a lot in our time at casebrook. I would like to thank mr Leith for being so great and teaching us lots. I think we should all be proud of what we achieved together,winning multiple awards around the school- swimming sports (twice in a row!) ,athletics day,cross country...the list goes on. As your school councillor I would like to congratulate you for making it through casebrook in our slightly crazy class.
Our casebrook journey is over now.
Goodbye,and may the odds be ever in your favour.

Jacqui's Flower Creation

Take a dead plant and re-create it!

 

4.30 Show meets Room 5!

We had the pleasure of watching an interview with Eve and Michael from the 4.30 show at school on Wednesday afternoon. Cara and Jacqui ran the in review and did a marvelous job. Well done girls!

Jacqui's Ad For AJ Sweets

Happy Birthday Jacqui and Caitlin Cheese!

Caitlin N

Jacqui

Show prep has started!

Recently we have started practicing for the show later this term. Our song is "we're all in this together" from high school musical.

Our dance is coming together really well and there is a high level of enjoyment all around, the dance teacher Natalie said we were easily the best class.

For a snippet of what it looks like at the moment, click on the link below.

**PLEASE NOTE** This is definitely not our best practice!

Staff v Student Netball Game

On Friday 1st August, the A+B mixed netball team versed the staff in a game of netball.

As  you would think,there was quite a big height difference but the students persevered making some good intercepts,passes and shots,but so did (some of) the staff.

In the end,the teachers won 15-4, but team members from each team would beg to differ.

The real score was ?-6,but the staff did win either way due to Mr.Meads' amazing shooting skills.

ISS Presentations - Day 1

Room 5 have been working on paired inquiries over the last week.
ISS means - 'Inquiring about Space Stuff'.
Today was the first day of the student presentations showing what they've found. The goal is to share the information in an interesting way.

Day 1 - Here's the good stuff!

Cara, Tai-iba and Nikhil - The Solar System

Matt, Harry, Joseph - How The Moon Was Formed

Alex R and Sarah - Black Holes

Jacqui and Claudia - Gleise 581C

Emma and Alice - The Solar System

Sumdog Daily Champions!

Congratulations to us as we have earned our first ever daily champion prize on Sumdog. And congrats to Sarah who was the lead student in the competition for 3 days.

Now we can also congratulate Jacqui who is the new leader!
Plus Sarah, Claudia and Nikhil are in the top 5. Outstanding work Room 5!

Burning blue - A Book Review by Jacqui

Burning blue is a really good book that I read in the weekend and is set in New Jersey,USA.

It's about two people (mainly) who live In Two different worlds,really.one of them is a poor boy called jay ,who is an amazing 'hacker' . His dad is an obese art critic who doesn't earn much,and his mother died in the car crash they were in a couple of years back,hence why jay has to work at a warehouse called bj's part time,where he stocks and works out back. The other main character is a rich girl called Nicole,who has won many pageants and people think she's going to miss New Jersey! Her parents are split up and she lives with her mum,but sky pets her dad and has 'dates' with him every so often.

She has a boyfriend,the lead wrestler for brandywine hollows high school, Dave.after being late for a period hanging with Dave in the hallway,a 'recluse' squirts her face (one side of) with acid and jay vows to himself that he would find who did it,with the help of an old 'friend' called Angela,who he finds out is also a hacker. But the recluse is not who you think it is…
Jacqui

NASDA Yakkety Yak Performance

The NASDA yakkety yak performance was really,really good and that all the actors were all very talented at playing their parts. I think they were amazing in the aspect that they never ever even slightly went out of character. The way that they changed the songs around to fit in with the show,and the fact they did it all themselves made it even more enjoyable. It's sort of hard to believe that they based it off the rainbow fish,seeing as everyone enjoyed it so much being our age. I liked how they didn't use any props but instead their bodies and how all of them were so full of energy,which showed that they enjoyed it as well. I think if I had to pick the best actor I would probably pick the tiger, because you could tell that she tried really hard in all that she did on the stage. I would definitely see it again and it is most certainly worth spending money on to watch.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Outsiders - Stop Motion Animations

We have been studying The Outsiders - a novel by S. E Hinton.

Heres some scenes created using stop-motion animation.

ICAS Writing Test Success!

A huge congratulations to:

JACQUI
who received a DISTINCTION in the very tough ICAS Writing test. An excellent achievement.

Congrats also to
SARAH and OLIVIA who received a CREDIT in the ICAS Writing test.

Well done girls!

ICAS Spelling Test Awesomeness!

A huge congratulations to:
 EMILY and JACQUI 
who both received DISTINCTIONS in the ICAS spelling test.

A big congratulations also to:
CAITLIN N and ALEX R
who received CREDITS in the ICAS spelling test.

Results have just come in and were published in the newsletter today. Congratulations girls!

A Message from Jason Gunn

I don't see the similarity myself...

Room 5 Success in the World of Academics!

Cantamath Excellence and Highly Commended Awards!

Casebrook Cantamath Team

ICAS Science Credit Achievers

Jacqui: Letter Writing Legend