This morning we visited the Burrumbuttock Primary School associated with the Wirraminna Environmental Education Center. This school is run by a Mr. Owen Dunlap who acts as Principal and teacher. There are 33 students in this "One Room Schoolhouse" type set-up from grades k through 6. The school is an environmentally based curriculum and has hectares of land to incorporate in their program. Saw a really scary looking spider web - but it's winter here at the moment so she was hibernating! It has been a crisp - cool 50 degrees here in southern Australia!
Xavier High School was our next stop. We had a very lengthy tour and visit to this large grade 7 through grade 12 Catholic School complex. I was walking by a year 7 science student in the Library and noticed he was working on researching the Hudson River and Pete Seeger songs dealing with water pollution! Staff members spent a lot of time talking about Australian Curriculum, and treated us to a wonderful lunch. Tonight we are all broken up into groups to go out to Dinner with Rotary Club members. Lynn, Patricia and I are going to the Rotary Club president's home for a homemade Curry meal. Things were hopping in town last night with the World Cup Football match between Italy and Australia. It started at 1:00 A.M. and two of our group went to the local pub to watch it with Aussie locals. (not me - but I did catch it on TV!)
Big disappointment here when Australia got a penalty during the last 5 minutes and Italy scored to win 1 to 0. Tomorrow we are off to wine country for a Winery Tour. G'Day mate!
Make sure you also check out these two blogs of our trip - Margo and Mark have laptops with them and there are some great pictures included. (some of me!)
ozspotting.blogspot.com
mheiden.blogspot.com
Xavier High School was our next stop. We had a very lengthy tour and visit to this large grade 7 through grade 12 Catholic School complex. I was walking by a year 7 science student in the Library and noticed he was working on researching the Hudson River and Pete Seeger songs dealing with water pollution! Staff members spent a lot of time talking about Australian Curriculum, and treated us to a wonderful lunch. Tonight we are all broken up into groups to go out to Dinner with Rotary Club members. Lynn, Patricia and I are going to the Rotary Club president's home for a homemade Curry meal. Things were hopping in town last night with the World Cup Football match between Italy and Australia. It started at 1:00 A.M. and two of our group went to the local pub to watch it with Aussie locals. (not me - but I did catch it on TV!)
Big disappointment here when Australia got a penalty during the last 5 minutes and Italy scored to win 1 to 0. Tomorrow we are off to wine country for a Winery Tour. G'Day mate!
Make sure you also check out these two blogs of our trip - Margo and Mark have laptops with them and there are some great pictures included. (some of me!)
ozspotting.blogspot.com
mheiden.blogspot.com
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