Canberra Excursion

What a wonderful 3 days our senior students had in Canberra last week! It was an extremely busy few days, with a lot packed in. Everyone enjoyed themselves and consolidated their learning from this term about Parliament and Democracy. Below are some highlight from students.

 ‘On the second night, we went to the A.I.S (Australian Institute of Sport). Everyone was having fun. There was soccer, basketball, AFL, skeleton run, bikes, wheelchair race, arm wrestling, pull ups, rock climbing and one where you had to throw a ball at a target. It was so good. I loved it!’

By Alyssa

 ‘On the last few days of March, the Year 5/6 of St Pat’s went to Canberra for a 3-day camp. One of the things we did there was go to the War memorial. Once we drove into Canberra, we went to the War Memorial to learn about the people who have died in the war. It was very interesting. There were a lot of people who died. We saw some bombs that didn’t go explode that were put in the museum.

After the first day, we drove to camp to find out what cabins we were in. After we were all settled in, it was time for dinner. We had burgers and they were really yummy, then we got onto the bus again and went bowling.’

By Maya

 ‘At Parliament House, we got to watch the House of Representatives and Senate. The first thing we did there was go into this room with a Lego recreation of Parliament house that had people, animals, cameras and the Prime Minister. When we were watching the House of Representatives and Senate, we sat in boxes that were attached to the ceiling. They were in two rows of seats that looked down to the Parliamentarians. I saw Kristy McBain sitting next to a lady dressed in full pink. I also saw former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. ‘

By Aodhan

 ‘Everyone who went to camp had to get there at 6:45am to catch the bus. Everyone was tired! We went to so many things. We went to the AIS on the second night. All the 5/6’s loved it. There was bikes, basketball, wheelchair races, rock climbing, soccer and so many more things. On the second day, we went to Questacon. I’m just going to talk about one room. The gravity room. When we went into the gravity room, all the 5/6’s ran to line up to go on the slide. The Slide is a slide, but you hang on a bar and then drop. Some of the slide is dead straight so when you drop for a second it’s the same feeling as if you’re in space flying around.

By Arly

The Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) program is an Australian Government initiative that provides financial assistance to support students on-site learning about our nation’s capital. We have been very fortunate to receive this support to enable our students to have this amazing Canberra experience.