Tomorrow the ABC reporter is coming to school to watch Barcoo Bella being presented on parade for the first time since she has been painted. She is also going to interview Miss Thompson and Selena Still, a student of TSS who has been part of the Archibull project. The year seven students and some of the year eight students will also be performing one of their Archibull songs in front of the whole school. The song “We all love beef” is a remix of “Stay with me” which they have reconstructed. Luke Clifford, Year 8
On Barcoo Bella's udder you will find a crossword. Below are the clues... to find the answers you will have to crawl under our Archibull Cow:) Crossword:
Across: Down: 1. Added to cattle feed to reduce methane emissions (5) 1. A plant that grows in water (5) 2. Used to control diabetes (7) 2. Deposits of solid matter that become suspended in water (13) 3. Something you wash yourself with (4) 3. Derived from plant or animal material (7) 4. Used to keep cattle in a paddock (7) 4. Used to set jelly (8) 5. Small flowing waterway (5) 6. High protein food from a cow (4) 7. Large flowing waterway (5) This Friday Barcoo Bella is going somewhere special where the whole town can see her. And that special somewhere is at the Tambo hall on Trivia Night People will be walking past her and admiring her beautiful body of wonderful by-products, delicious meat and the stunning landscape. Barcoo Bella is very excited to meet new people from our whole community. She will have fun watching the exciting night go on with questions being asked and prizes being given out. She might even answer a few questions and win fantastic prizes! By Ellie You will see below our Principal Sharon MacDonnell has cleverly adapted the words to the poem "A bush christening" reflecting the christening of "Barcoo Bella". The image shows Matt and Luke enacting the poem. A Bush Christening (with thanks to Banjo Paterson.)
On the upper Barcoo, where school kids are few, And cows of colour are scanty. On a road through the bush, known by kids and their folks Tambo School had tracks a-plenty. Now these kids were the hosts of a metre tall cow Plump, healthy and well-conditioned. She was strong as the best, but the kids had no rest For the poor cow had never been christened. The teachers all cried, “what if she should die The meatworks would not recognise her.” But by luck she survived till the competition decided The name that they would baptise her. Now the colourful cow, with sweat on her brow To the conversation was closely listening. And she trembled in fright, while her colours turned white As she pondered “what the devil is christening?” She was none of your dolts, she had seen them brand colts, And it seemed to her small understanding. If the man in the frock made her one of the flock, It must mean something like branding. She stood with a hush, as the school kids said with a rush The suggested names as everyone listened. “Barcoo Beast and Moo, and of course Bonnie Barcoo. We’ll have to hold her still to be christened.” “Now kids, make her stand, I’ve got the water at hand” Said the priest with a mighty big yella “Bonnie Barcoo; Barcoo Moo,” then the priest shouted whoa! “Take your chance with Barcoo Bella.” Now Barcoo Bella you see, has become a celebrity And the thing she most hates to tell us To be asked by the folk who have heard of the joke, How she came to be called “Barcoo Bella.” We have finally got over the loss of the old name for our Archibull cow, ‘Betsy’. After days on end in depression, today we voted and came to a decision on our new name. Over the past two weeks or so, we’ve had a name suggestion box, for everyone to come with their own creative name. I’m proud to announce our new and improved, first class name, is (drum roll please) ………… ‘Barcoo Bella’!! This name is both creative and relating to our area. ‘Barcoo’ is the local river, more like a creek, where good old Tambo town is situated near, which would represent our location. Whereas ‘Bella’ means beautiful, which, hopefully, is what our cow will end up looking like. Steele Howard, Year 9 Below are the final names which we had to vote for.
Today at Tambo State School we had a leather day where everyone had to dress up in leather. A gold coin donation was given towards the Archibull fund by everyone who contributed in the free dress. Everyone had a great time dressing up in leather. Some kids had leather chaps, cowboy hats, boots, vests and more (see gallery for more pictures). There was also a $2 sausage sizzle which also contributed towards our Archibull fund. Those who had a beef sausage hooked into them and loved their sausage on bread with sauce. YUM!!
Jorjah Walker, Year 9 Year 7-10 students are staring a new craze. Check out our 'Beefy Selfies' by clicking here to see us enjoying Australian beef, because we all love beef!
As our Archibull cow's character emerges we are working on a creative name that is worthy for our colourful, glamorous looking cow... WATCH THIS SPACE...
Today the high school students were researching about by-products. There were two main questions that we had to answer and they were ‘What specific part of a beef cow does this come from?’ and ‘What process does it take to turn it into the by-product?’ Did you know that some cow fat called glycine is in dynamite?
By Liza Powyer, Year 8 I have researched about gelatine. The things that I found interesting was that gelatine is made from cattle’s skin, bones and connective tissue and that it goes through about 6 steps to get to gelatine. The first step is pre-treatment, extraction, purification, concentration, drying, milling, sieving and blending. Brooke Bailey, Year 9 We all learned about how whips, gelatine, soap, chewing gum, explosives, how they were made and where they are found on a cow. Tazma Skennerton, Year 10 Today I discovered that the hairs of the paint brush are mainly made from animal hairs. The long hairs of the cow’s tail are made into paint brushes for people to use, just like the brushes the students of the Tambo State School are using to paint their Achibull cow. Cow hairs are not the most commonly used to make paint brushes. One of the main animal hairs used are, the long-haired hog bristle (often referred to simply as bristle). Some of the other natural animal hairs used are squirrel, camel, goat, ox, badger, and horse tail hairs.
Jorjah Walker, Year 9 Today we researched about a by-product of a cow and where it comes from. Today I researched leather boots and I found out that leather boots come from the back of a calf. The leather comes from a calf because it is soft and easier to mould to shape. The hide off a calf goes through a few processes to get to boots. The process include forming the leather to a mould and rubbing it with alcohol to help it mould to shape. The next process is soaking in water to shrink to the mould size. Then they heat and steam the leather to help it mould to the shape of somebody’s feet. The last process is taking the mould out so they can sell the boots.
Connor Johnson, Year 8 Today I learnt that oils and lubricants come from beef by-products which I found very interesting. The oils that come from the cow are mainly used in cars and machinery, used for back rubbers, food and pharmaceutical uses. Luke Clifford, Year 8 |
AuthorStudents and Teachers of Tambo State School's Junior Secondary. Archives
October 2015
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