11 May 2018
On the 9th of May, we went to Illawarra Christian School to participate in the Regional Da Vinci Decathlon. A decathlon is an event with ten different activities. The ten activities would normally be sports, but we were competing in an academic decathlon. The topics we did were: English, Maths, Science, Cartography, Ideation, Art & Poetry, Engineering, Creative Producers, Codebreaking, and General Knowledge. Our team consisted of Rafael Rutherford, Will Brown, Alex Ramirez, Rahil Shaikh, Nina Zhang,, Evie Neill, Davina George and Freja Reinfelds. It was a great experience and we enjoyed every single part of it, even if there was some stressful times along the way - we're glad we did it. We couldn't have been as prepared as we were without help from our classmates and our Year 6 Opportunity Class friends and teammates. We all had to work as a team to complete all of the tasks on time. In the first session, we participated in English, Maths, Cartography, and Science. We had 1½ hours to complete all of the tasks. In the second session, we did Art & Poetry, Ideation, Engineering and Creative Producers. In the third and final session, we did Codebreaking and General Knowledge. Most of it was incredibly hard but fun to the maximum! We all learned something new particularly in Cartography, Drama skills and Math tricks. We also became better at some subjects we thought we were weaker at. We all thought it was a great experience that we will never forget! We got 1st in both Mathematics and Codebreaking, 2nd in English and Ideation, as well as 3rd in General Knowledge, Science and Creative Producers. Overall, we came 1st for the overall Year 5 award out of 16 other schools. It was the time of our lives! We all participated fairly and we worked together as the extravagant eight! Hooray!
By 5OC Students
