AllStars CSI
A baffling crime puzzled the police until they called in the investigative minds of the AllStars! Along with Lisa from the CSIRO, the AllStars became real life Crime Scene Investigators as they:
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tested blood samples,
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compared finger prints,
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took footprint plasters,
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looked at DNA,
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compared hair samples,
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looked at oils found at the scene,
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checked bullet casings,
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and used chromatography to compare pens used.
“We had to look at the evidence that was left behind at the crime scene to work out who was behind a blackmailing plot, and the theft of $200 000 from a safe. There were four suspects who had been identified, but all protested that they were innocent. It was our job to look through the evidence and eliminate or prove a suspect guilty.”
Comparison of Hair: We had to look at samples under the microscope - the sample found at the scene and the suspects. Two of the suspects hair looked the same as the evidence hair. Celia
Comparison of Fabrics: We compared fabrics from the suspects, with a piece of fabric found on a chair at the crime scene. First we swirled the fabric in some water, then we dropped a few drops of indicator onto the piece of cloth. We left it for 2 minutes and then we compared the colours to see if it matched the evidence fabric. Sokeina
Soil Analysis: We had to put some soil samples in a dish and compare them to soil from the crime scene. We dropped a small amount of soil in the dish, then added indicator on top. The indicator turned a different colour according to the acidity of the soil. Each soil sample turned a different colour - but only one matched the soil from the crime scene! Nadine
Identikit Face: We had to memorize the description of a man seen at the crime scene and build a picture of the person’s face using a computer program. We had to make the picture look exactly like the picture of the man seen at the crime. Tyrone
Ballistics: We took the bullet found in the sofa at the crime scene and looked at it under the magnifying glass. We then had to try and spot identical markings on bullets from the suspects guns. We were able to find a match from one of the suspects guns. Marshall
Chromatography: this is when we drew a line on a small sample of paper and put it in water. The colours in the ink seperated and we had to match the ink from the pen used to write the blackmail letter. Gloria & Natalie
Back to Before Show
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Last week two talented and enthusiastic actors visited our school to perform the show “Back to Before”. The show used books that were nominated for “The Children’s Book Council of Australia” Book Week Awards, to spin an exciting and funny story.
The two main characters were Sam, who was celebrating his birthday, and Mrs McTock who was the old and mysterious neighbour. Mrs McTock invited Sam to visit her in her old and scary house. Sam was tricked into playing a game and a series of crazy adventures, where he met up with Katie, the young Mrs McTock.
Other characters included the Time Keeper, who controlled the game, Sam a boy who was frightened of what he didn’t know, and a baby called Daisy who had to learn to talk.
By using clues from the books, Katie and Sam were able to escape back to the present time. Sam and Mrs McTock become good friends, they learn that the past and the present are often linked in strange ways, and that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover - meaning things are not always the way they look.
Lots of singing and dancing as well as audience participation meant that everyone had a great time! Even Sandy was heard to hum along and groove a little
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Here are the names of the books that were part of the show:
Chatterbox by Margaret Wild
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Amy and Louis by Libby Gleeson
You might like to read these great books - we enjoyed them all 
VIP
VIP - Violinist Impressively Performs!
Our very talented violinist performed recently at the Sydney Opera House. He performed over three nights and we were extremely proud of him.
Not everyone was able to attend the Opera House, so he performed a special lunch-time concert for us in our room.
Thank you VIP!!!!!
Look carefully at the third photo - even Sandy got in on the act
Visitors From Singapore
This morning visitors from the Ministry of Education in Singapore came to look at how we use technology at our school.
We showed them our blog and the work we do on the internet:
- Our clustr map - where people come from to visit our blog
- Our fantasy creature writing
- Our Basic Skills Tests
- Our Small World projects - technology, design, art, writing
- “Math Hunt” maths site
- Individual blogs and comments
- Toondoo - what it is and what we do with it
The visitors wrote down our blog address and promised they would visit when they returned to Singapore so we could get a red dot on our clustr map from Singapore.
Thankyou for visiting!
Fantasy Creature by Nancy
This winter holiday was FREEZING. The icy wind stung every uncovered particle of skin and it was even snowing!! The confused weather man quitted, but no-one really liked him. Kids, even teenagers and adults everywhere were snow-fighting, skiing and doing all sorts of snow activities. I was making snowmen, a whole family of them. I just loved making snowmen, and found it super easy. It was getting darker and darker, but I didn’t notice. Soon, I was the only kid left. Instead of making a simple family, I made a large crowd of snow-People.
Once I got off from snow-man planet, I started making my way home. I knew loads of short-cuts, but the shortest one had a lot of trees in the way. I was trying to think of a good excuse for my lateness when I saw a beautiful, glowing silver light which wiped my mind blank. I blinked. It was gone, I thought I was hallucinating but the next second, it flashed again. I thought it was just a lost flash-light, but the light was so bright and … graceful. I just had to go near it.
The light was glowing on a very low and leafless branch. All that light had come from a small, winged creature. It was about ten centimetres high and looked really fragile. The creature saw me, alerted it drew a tiny and silver stick and raised it like a sword. Then, the icy wind blew and it fell unconscious on the branch. The light was fading away from it. It was dying, dying from the cold and snow. I had to save it. I carefully lifted it up and lay it gently in my hand. It was as cold as ice.
I started racing home as soon as possible. I tried warming it up, putting it near the heater and trying to keep it as warm as possible. My mum was next to me, confused, she asked, “What are you doing?” I stared at her. -“Can’t you see it?” - “hmm? See what?” I couldn’t believe it, my mum can’t see it. Was I imagining things? It seemed so real, and I could even feel it. I went towards my room, holding the strange creature in my hand, and covered it up. I went to dinner, trying to pinch a few pieces for that creature in case it was hungry. I went back to my room, but it was gone, the window was slightly opened. I left the food on the table and went to sleep. Thus, I never saw it again.
“Speed Blitz Blues” bombard Belmore with bags of balls :)
Today Emma, a rep from the NSW Cricket Association (Speed Blitz Blues teams), visited our school to advertise cricket and how much fun it is to play.
We got to practise 3 important cricket skills:
- fielding
- bowling
- batting
In our groups of three, we went to each activity and had a couple of turns at each skill.
At the end Emma gave everyone a showbag with goodies inside! There were stickers, Milo munchies, a DVD, a poster, a soft cricket ball and some advertisements.
Ramiz, our future Aussie Cricket star, answered a question correctly) and won a water bottle for himself. GOOOOOOOOOO Ramiz :cool:
Watch out Warney!!!!!!! AllStars are after you! 
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Debating Rounds 2 & 3 Update
On the 19th of June the BSPS (Belmore South P.S) debating team won their first debate for 07 against Hampden Park P.S. The Home side’s (BSPS) team for our second debate was………………………
1st speaker: Clement
3rd speaker: Me ( Yilmaz )
Team advisor: Martin
When Clement got up he looked very confident and he was fairly good too, I think that he was only because he didn’t have to do any rebuts.
Natalie was just fantastic she was confident all the way through not only her speech but through the entire debate she didn’t let anything get in her way.
When it was my turn to say my speech I wasn’t ready because I hadn’t got any rebuttles to use against the negative until Martin finally found a weakness in their teamline he gave it to me and I got up and walked up to the mark.
At the end of the debate the adjudicator told us our mistakes, he told us that both sides had backed up their arguments very poorly. When the adjudicator told us that we had won their was a soft wave of “YES’s” amonst the crowd!!!!! We had WON our first debate for 07!! After the crowd left all the debaters, coaches, chairperson, timekeeper came into the computer room which I am in now. We had some juice and biscuits.
Our next debate is against Campsie P.S, the topic is that “Society should listen to children more often”.
By Yilmaz
A Disappointing Loss !
Yesterday the Belmore South P.S debating team travelled to Campsie P.S for our third debate of the year. The topic for the debate was “society should listen more to children” and we were the negative which means we were saying that society should not listen more to children.
The first speaker for us was Clement. Our second speaker was Natalie and our third speaker was Martin. Our team advisor was Gloria.
We were really good and we did our best. Everyone thought we should have won, Martin thought that the adjudicator had a grudge against us! (I think he thought this because the adjudicator has adjudicated 2 of our debates and we lost both).
After the debate the adjudicator (the person who judges the debate) had some advice to make ourselves better at debating. Campsie school were nice and prepared some snacks for us to eat.
We had loads of fun at the debate and even though we lost, everyone is thinking positively and we are looking forward to our next debate which is against Strathfield South which will be held at our school. 
By Ramiz and Gloria
Testing Toondoo
Here is our first attempt at using Toondoo!
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Author visits Us!
Have you read “Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls” or “Scary Stories for Brave Boys and Girls”, ? If you haven’t, then look for them in your nearest Library; even though they sound bad or unpleasant, they are actually very funny and entertaining.
Author Christopher Milne read one of his stories (Wheelchair Wally)to us today and then told us about his life and how he started writing for children. He told us that he had to keep trying to get his work published and to pursue your dreams whatever happens. Christopher persevered even when he wanted to give up and he has now won a Book Award - The Young Australians Best Book Award.
Some people bought copies of his books and Christopher signed them for us. We thought that the stories were incredibly interesting even though they were very short. We are glad that the author came to visit!
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