Awesome - Curious - Terrific
Finally the day we have all been looking forward to, an exciting day, the best day of our lives. On the 18th of October Year 3/4 from St Patrick's Primary school had an exciting trip to Canberra. They visited the National Portrait Gallery, Geo Science and Parliament House. The National Portrait Gallery: The National Portrait Gallery was a very exciting place. We went on a tour through the gallery and wrote an acrostic poem, a drawing of an animal we love and a blind drawing and saw lots of famous people in the portraits.

Geo Science: Geo Science was amazing. It had crystals, gold, rocks and fossils. It really rocked. (Get it?!) We got to go to the education centre and make a mini earthquake that was tiny and got to see glow in the dark rocks and heaps more amazing things but unfortunately we had to leave. Bye Geo Science. Parliament House: Parliament house was awesome and fancy. After walking up a whole lot of stairs we got to see Micheal McCormack. Then we went to the Senate and we saw lots of important people. Then we went to the House of Representatives where we saw Anthony Albanese. After that our time was up so we had to go. Out of the whole day it was all amazing but we all agree I'm pretty sure that seeing the Prime Minister was the best experience of our life. The day had ended and we were all exhausted and ready to go home and sleep.
By Molly Lott

ACT-ion Adventure

The day starts off getting to the school at 7.05am to catch the bus to Canberra for the year three and four excursion. First we went to the amazing National Portrait Gallery and if you like art then you will love it there. We did a lot of fun drawing activities, including drawing things that make you happy, and blind drawing where you can't take the pencil off the paper. We saw a lot of famous people. Everybody that had a portrait had something to do with Australia.

Geoscience Australia is a place with rocks and minerals and some fossils. And there we went and saw a lot of rocks and minerals. There were so many things that we could see and even touch. There was even a moon rock that was 3.8 billion years old - that's older than the Earth! There were many things including a perfect cube of pyrite and RV poured the layer of little rocks and sand into a tube of water.

And to finish a fun packed excursion off we went to Parliament House. While we were waiting we saw Michael McCormack again! And we got to talk and get a picture with him. Then we went into the Red Room also known as the Senate and we learned a bit about it. We could also hear them talking in Question Time. Then we went to the House of Representatives and we saw a lot of cool things like the Mace and the books but the thing that stood out the most was Anthony Albanese. Year three/four saw the active Prime Minister and I don't know what's better than seeing the PM! And then we took another two hours on a bus and we were home. It was an amazing and exciting excursion!
By Lachlan Hargreaves