Our trip started early with a three hour bus drive to Canberra. Our first stop was Parliament House. A place that was filled with important rooms, people and decisions. The parliament started with a quick break including frozen yogurt! Our tour took place in The House Of Representatives, The Senate and everywhere in between. It then came to a close with a role play. Our next stop was Questacon, the home of the long awaited free fall slide. 

Questacon is a science museum that holds many interactive galleries and activities. We first took a stop at the free fall slide, then after that we saw a gallery about forces, then we went to a gallery about electricity and how it works and travels. After that we discovered a gallery with an earthquake room, which basically stimulated what it’s like to experience an earthquake.We also saw a bug exhibit, and a replica of the moon too.

After Questacon, we arrived at Canberra Park, where we would be staying the night. For dinner, they gave us a scrumptious meal of butter chicken, rice and naan bread. They ended the meal with creamy, delicious vanilla ice cream.

At 7:30 pm, for our night time activity, we went to the A.I.S (Australian Institute of Sport). Here we enjoyed the night with virtual sport games. We had access to winter and summer games such as : the skeleton run, skiing, snow boarding, cricket and soccer penalty kicks! After this, Canberra day one came to a close.

We then woke up around 6am to have breakfast and to start our adventure for day two of Canberra. We first visited the National Film And Sound Archive (NFSA), we watched a few videos throughout history and played a game of would you rather, which we discovered we like old technology better than new. After that we traveled to the National Museum, we then looked around and had a scavenger hunt. 

We visited The Royal Australian Mint, where they make coins for our currency. We walked past a wall full of coins. Even discontinued ones, like 5 dollar coins, rounded 50 cents, 1 cent  and two cent coins. We also got to see how coins were made due to the help of these robots, Penny, Titan and Robbie. We then had the opportunity to make our own uncirculated coin. After that we visited The Royal High Court of Australia.

Here we learnt about the Constitution, and we got to experience a real court case! It was a case about Katy Perry versus Katie Perry. We then watched a video about the 6 ingredients to the Constitution Cake. They were: federalism, democracy, rule of law, separation of powers, nationhood and rights balanced by responsibilities. Afterwards, we met the 7 Justices of the High Court. Then making our way to another courtroom, where we learnt about the important objects in the courtroom. 

Finally, on our bus ride home we took a stop at Sutton Forest McDonald’s. Everyone got a delicious meal that was very long awaited by every year 6 student. We were even looking forward to it on the first day. We all got stocked up on Maccas, and continued our journey home. At last, we arrived back at school at 7:30pm and that was the end of our Canberra trip.

Lexie (6G) and Indianna (6B)