This week the children have been learning about Democracy and how we all get to have a say and a vote when trying to make Boothville a great learning community. To ensure the voice of the children are heard at Boothville we elect School Council members from each year group to represent their class and share their ideas and views about the school.

Every child who wanted to become a School Council member shared a speech outlining why they would be good at the role. The children in the class voted for the person they thought would be a great representative based on their speech.

We would like to congratulate our newly appointed Year 3 School Council Members for their fantastic speeches and their great ideas of how they could improve our school community.

Our new Year 3 School Council Members are:

• 3BL: Pippa
• 3BG: George
• 3MG: Samantha

We hope they have an excellent year working together, within the School Council.

This week in Year 3 the children completed a range of activities to help them learn about and name some of the bones in the human skeleton. We recapped key information: Vertebrates have a skeleton for Movement, Support and Protection. The children then had fun learning about the names of the bones in the human skeleton by creating their own skeletons, using interactive games and drawing life size models of the bones of their classmates. How many bones can you name?

FUN FACT: A baby is born with around 300 bones and as the baby grows into an adult the bones fuse together and the number of bones an adult then has is 206.Have a look at the videos and the interactive activities via the links below, to further explore and learn more about the bones in the human skeleton.

Build a Skeleton: https://www.dairy.com.au/education/students/dairy-games/build-a-skeleton
Label the Skeleton: https://wordwall.net/resource/102497/science/label-the-skeleton-ks2