1995 School Magazine

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6rrls' @r'ammar 9cfoo[ 6righane 1995

It is important to praise the tutee by saying "excellent", "good", "wonderftrl", "you're improving" as you go along. This helps them feel good about themselves. You always have to appear cheerful, even if you do feel a little disappointed at times. This helps the pupil's confidence grow. The teacher discussed many strategies with me and I soon found myself using them automatically. I go every week for one session. Before each one, I make a plan of what I hope to accomplish, and the books I plan to read with him. \fhen I come back, I do a reflection sheet about the session and what we achieved. It has been exciting over the year as Karl has improved very much and is now quite enthusiastic about his reading. \7e now get on really well and I enjoy his company very much and feel exclted that I have contributed to his progress. Another good point about the scheme ls that I have got to know the primary school teachers and they asked me to go as a helper on the school camp last November. The whole school went on camp to Mudjimba. It was terrific fun. I l-relped the teachers organise activities and it was unusual to be one of them, instead of a student on the camp. The only problem was sandflies; we were a1l bitten from head to toe. This year there are some more BGGS Year Ten and Year Eleven girls joining the scheme. I'm sure they will enjoy it as much as I have. I would like to thank Mrs Stubbington for her help in setting up the scheme and for her support. ELIZABETH MACLEOD YEAR 11

school students were amazed to discover that their predictions were incorrect. On completion of the introductory session, the visitors were 1ed into another laboratory where lifteen different stations had been set up to give students the opportunily to discover concepts associated with the theme ollight and vision. At each station, the primary school students were able to perform their own experiments to investigate phenomena such as peripheral vision, their blind spots, colour blindness, astig- matism, and persistence of vision. A Year Ten student was on hand at each exhibit to answer any questions and to assist if problems were being experienced.

The mini-expo was a wonderfr,rl learning experience for both the pdmary school students and the Year Ten students who acted as expo-expefis and, hopefully, more expos of a similar nature can be held at the school in the future. SYNDIA LAZARUS GRAI\DPARENTS' DAY J) ecently the school celebrated Science In Schools week ft ny holding two Grandparents' Days. Grandparents were invited to attend science classes on either the fourteenth or fifteenth of August. The visitors were encouraged to partici- pate in all class actlvities with the help of their Granddaughters.

SCIENCE E)GO VISIONARY SCIENCE

n the fifteenth and eighteenth of August, as part of Science in Schools \Y/eek, stvdents from Ironside State School and Camp Hill State School came to Brisbane Girls' Grammar to partlclpate in a mini-expo called Visionary Science. After a brief welcome, students were treated to an introduction to light and colour, which included the history of light and the basic principles of optics. On several occasions, the primary

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