Kids from New Farm State School Flood Local Attractions!

A large group of year six students from New Farm State School flood local attractions displaying excellent behaviour along the way.

These groups went the following attractions: New Farm Park in New Farm, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in the fig tree pocket and the GOMA and Brisbane Art Gallery in south bank. All 3 of these attractions are popular among Brisbane citizens!

These students missed out on a trip to Canberra, while teachers scrambled to find a substitute. They resorted to 3 fun filled days. From boat rides to appreciating marvellous artwork, these students touched all aspects of fun education!

In conclusion year 6 students of NFSS had a blast at these 3 action-packed excursions.

Korey F

New Farm State School Year 6 Excursion

The seniors of NFSS have been wandering around Brisbane. They have been to many places, Lone Pine Sanctuary, The Art Gallery, GOMA and New Farm Park.

Last week on Thursday, 2 bloggers were filming NFSS senior students, doing many activities. They introduced a girl named Isobel and she told them about her day. "Today has been a great experience. We have played volleyball, softball, a frisbee game, netball and so much more! My favourite game was a game where you had two teams. Each person in each team had a pool noodle. When the referee blew the whistle, you would 'charge' at the other team and try to touch their shoes with the pool noodle. If you got touched with the pool noodle on your shoes you would go to the side of the field, when there was one person left on the field that person won."  Now that day sounds fun! Let us go on to the following week.

On Monday, the NFSS senior groups went to Lone Pine! One of the seniors posted a piece of writing about her day, and it went a bit like this. "Hey guys! Isobel here! Today I went to Lone Pine! We caught two boats to get there! When we arrived, we got to feed the Kangis! (Kangaroos). After that, we went to see the dingoes, which were adorable! Then we went to see some Tasmanian devils! Of course, we went to see the Koalas, and they were motion less! Ha-ha! So far Lone Pine has been my favourite trip!" Sounds like those Kangaroos (or should I say Kangis!) were hungry! Now for the last excursion... GOMA and the Art Gallery!

On Wednesday, two days after Lone Pine, this stunning group of seniors went to GOMA and the Art Gallery. The security cameras caught Isobel on her trip. This is what we saw. "Aww Man! We must do a work sheet on this excursion! However, I am happy we get to go to GOMA first! Wow, we get to design our own T-shirt with a sign saying something about climate change! That was fun! Now where on to the Art Gallery. This art is amazing! However, the workbook is so long! (In the afternoon) I finished the workbook! Yay! Today was a good experience with all the art."

Isobel M (6B)

School kids explore Brisbane

Over the course of one week, the year sixes of New Farm State School journeyed across Brisbane in three separate excursions. “Exploring our backyard” as stated by a year-six teacher. The students ventured to multiple locations such as New Farm Park, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, the Gallery Of Modern Art and the Brisbane Art Museum. The children took the Citycat and displayed excellent behaviour when on public transport and when travelling in two lines. Both students and teachers were said that the yearly excursion to Canberra for the year sixes was cancelled due to Covid-19 but were glad that they could experience the three activities instead.

Personally, the activity that I enjoyed the most was the trip to New Farm Park. I liked it because the sport activities were really fun and creative as they were designed by the teachers. There was Softball, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, Tribe Wars, Matball, Ball-throwing game, touch Football, Soccer and a custom-made game called Zing, Zang, Zowie. The park experience was fun and exciting and I would hope we do it again.

Hayden F (6B)