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School

Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:29:48 +1000

Hi Keypal,

My school is Levendale Primary. Our uniform is dark blue and red and our rugby tops are horizontal stripes of those colours. We wear blue trousers (pants). We have 27 people in the whole school and only 10 in our class. We live in Tasmania and I live in a farming area called Woodsdale.

My two older sisters go to Oatlands District High School which is about an hour by bus from where we live. It is very cold during the winter. Last week we had snow and had to go home early.

Hear from you soon,

Bye
Anita
Levendale Primary
Tasmania

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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:29:48 +1000

Dear Friend

Hi, my name is Megan (girl) and I am in grade 6 and I am 11 years old.

Our school is Levendale Primary and we wear a blue and red uniform. Our tops are T-shirts which are red and we wear blue pants. Our rugby tops are red and blue horizontal stripes.

Our school is very small and the room we are in is almost 100 years old. There are only 2 buildings in the school - one is like a house, the other is a classroom with the offices and a canteen attached.

We have an oval to play on as well as outdoor climbing equipment.

Our area is very bushy. The roads are dirt and the land is very hilly.

Last week we had snow and had to go home early otherwise the bus may not have been able to get all the children home.

That's a bit about us,

Hear from you soon,

Megan
Levendale Primary
Tasmania

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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:29:48 +1000

Dear Friends,

My name is Katie (girl) and we wear rugby tops which are blue and red with blue track pants. The boys wear sandshoes or runners or when we are not doing sport, blundstone boots.

This week is Wuppy Week which is a fundraising thing for the Royal Guide Dogs for the Blind and the Wuppy is a little toy dog about 5 cm high which clings onto your jumper.

I live in an old house and come to Levendale School which is about 8km away. At my school we have a water fall about 4 km from the school up the bush.

I play hockey on Saturdays. So far we have won every game. It is fun to play.

There are 27 students in the school and we have 2 buildings not very big. The little kids are in one room and we are in the other which is an old house almost 100 years old.

Write back soon,

Katie (10 years old)
Levendale Primary
Tasmania

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:06:27 +1000

Hi,

My name is Tobias Wiggins and I play hockey each Saturday. We haven't lost a game. Our team name is Levendale Lions.

There is 10 in our class.

I sometimes play football, baseball, cricket and board games.

Please write back and be my pen pal,

from Tobias Wiggins. (male)
Levendale Primary
Tasmania

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:06:27 +1000

Hi,

My name is Malcolm and as you know I go to Levendale Primary School.

Do you like to play football? I play football for New Norfolk under 11's and we haven't been beaten yet this year.

Malcolm
Levendale Primary
Tasmania

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:06:27 +1000

Hi, My name is Amy and I'm a girl. I am 8 years old and in grade 3.

We have a hockey team called the Levendale Lions and I play each Saturday in Hobart. We haven't lost a game this year yet.

Our groundsman Ken is our team coach and we have our own special uniforms.

Write back please.

from Amy
Levendale Primary
Tasmania

Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:41:01 +1000

Hello from Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia.

Allow us to describe our school. We attend the Pialba State school - one of eight schools in the town. We have a grassed oval with 2 cricket pitches, tennis court, and 2 large sand pits.

Most of the classrooms are on ground level. We are in a second story classroom. Our classroom, like the others has 3 computers.

Next door is a High School and not far away are the University and Technology College.

Our school is the second biggest with 850 students and 36 teaches.

Our school has year levels from Pre-school to year 7. In each year level we have classes which take the letter of the teacher. We are in 6h with Mr Hill, with 29 pupils, with Wayne arriving today from New South Wales. We have 15 boys and 14 girls.

Our uniform is a blue shirt and black shorts for boys and pleated skirt for girls with footwear compulsory, no hat ,no play.

We start at 9am and finish at 2.55pm Monday to Friday. Our subjects are English, Mandarin Chinese, Maths, Science, Social Studies, Art, Health , Physical Education, Religious Education, Music, computers and we had a four day camp at Fraser Island. While we study Mandarin there are no Chinese students in our school. It is one of several languages Queensland schools can study.

Please write agian.

from Jai Christie,Scot Blythe, Ben Webb, Amelia Davis,and Joe Mckay
Pialba State school
Hervey Bay, Queensland
Australia

Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:45:34 +1000

Hello Friends,

Here is some information about us.

In our school we have about 720 students and our school day commences at 9:00am and finishes at 3:00pm. We have seven year levels ( year 1 to year 7 )and a preschool. Our school also has a library which has about 15000 books. We also have an oval which all senior students must go after they have eaten lunch.

Our classroom which consists of two classes has 60 students and we are boys and girls.

The subjects we learn at school are maths, social studies, english, Japanese, science, physical education. We also do sport and art. We have five computers to share between our two classes.

Our class is situated on the top floor of a two storey building.

Meagan, Jayde, Bianca and Adam
Andergrove State School
Mackay, Queensland
Australia

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