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25.01.2022 Writing a literature essay or literature analysis is the most difficult writing skill a student can master. Its what students are assessed on in Year 11 and 12. Students need to comprehend and analyse a text, and present their arguments in a logical and reasoned way. Weve been teaching our Teen Writers this critical skill. Heres an essay written by Micah, a Year 7 student, on the literary devices and themes in Bram Stokers Dracula. Imagine what hell be writing in Year 1...2! ----- The passage is about Jonathan Harkers diary is telling the story of The Beast vs Civilisation. At the time, England was the most powerful place in the world. And Dracula wanted to spread his undead curse there. Beasts are hunters with animal instinct. They end lives without hesitation, they only fulfil their selfish wants. The difference between beast and man is that man has a set lifetime, where Dracula, the beast of the story, does not. Dracula is the beast, literally and figuratively. Like beasts, he ends lives without hesitation, he only does what is required to get what he wants, and he has physical animal features too. He has sharp wolf teeth, sharp claws, hair on his palms His goal is to spread his undead curse by converting unknowing victims into beasts like himself. Draculas Castle is in Transylvania, surrounded by wilderness. The wild even stretched over the road, suggesting even more that Draculas castle has a presence. It is dark with trees and no apparent order, showing more evidence that the castle is isolated from society. So, the place in the setting, nature is supreme, where Humans Morality has no place. Draculas castle setting is juxtaposed with Englands civilised city London. Dracula goes to London and attempts to spread his undead curse. When he arrives, it symbolises the attack on civilisation by the twisted forces of Nature, brought by Dracula. From Dracula, Bram Stoker reveals that everyone has a beast inside of them. In the right scenarios, that beast can be brought up. Even Draculas comment on the wolves howling. Listen to them - The children of the night What music they make! The author uses this to speak to the beast in everyone.

25.01.2022 RISE LEARNING LAUNCHES RISE ONLINE From Week 8, Rise weekend classes will be conducted through video conferencing app Zoom. This offers a more engaging and interactive learning experience than pre-recorded lessons. Classes will be held at the usual days and times so students can simply connect online with our teachers from home using an iPad, laptop or desktop.... Parents will be able to access and print class handouts and homework questions. For Maths classes, the class handouts will have detailed explanations together with homework questions with fully-worked solutions. For Writing classes, students submit their Sat/Sun in-class and homework writing for marking and feedback by our teachers. We will be in touch with parents soon with instructions on accessing Rise Online. RISE SCHOOL With likely school closures in Term 2 and many parents already keeping children at home, parents are looking for additional support for students during the week. Rise Online will run additional weekday classes (starting next week) through Zoom that students can connect with. Initially, this will cover Maths and English for Years 3/4 (Monday and Wednesday mornings) and for Years 5/6 (Tuesday and Thursday mornings). In the future, classes might expand to include Science and HASS. There is no additional charge to Rise parents for Rise School. We are incredibly grateful for the support and trust parents have given us with your childs education. The learning and wellbeing of your child has always been at the heart of our philosophy and our reason for starting Rise. In these extraordinary times, children are not immune to the anxiety and uncertainty confronting the rest of the community. Rise Online and Rise School will keep children connected to their friends and peers, provide welcome stability and routine for their emotional wellbeing, while engaging them in learning, until such time schools in Australia re-open. If you know of other parents whose child might benefit from Rise Online and Rise School, please let them know about us. Indicative weekday class time table 9.00 Connect with Rise Online, student news and greetings 9.15 Maths Warm Up 9.30 Times Tables Challenge 9.40 Mental Maths - parents will need to buy a copy of the New Wave Mental Maths Book 10.00 Phonics Warm Up 10.15 Sentence Writing - parents to mark their childs sentences 10.30 RECESS BREAK 11.00 Writing parents to assess their childs work using a marking guide we provide 11.45 Story time / class reading 12.00 RISE SCHOOL ENDS

24.01.2022 Year 4 students are also stretching their mathematical brains with distance, speed and time problems. Can you solve this question? A bus departs Pallet Town at 6.30 am and arrives at Lavender Town at 12.30 pm after travelling at an average speed of 80 km/h. How fast should it have travelled to arrive at 11.30 am?

24.01.2022 2020 Outstanding Academic Scholarship Results Congratulations to our Year 6 Rise students for their GATE and scholarship offers * eight Perth Modern School - gifted and talented entry... * two Wesley College - academic scholarships * Bob Hawke College - gifted and talented entry * All Saints College - academic scholarship * 19 students achieved the entry score for a GATE academic program The results reflect the hard work of students, as well as the passion and commitment of Rise teachers. Enrolments are now open for Term 3. Classes include: Maths (Years 2 6); Writing (Years 2 6); Teen Writing. Face-to-face classes run on Saturdays at Mount Pleasant College (Booragoon) and Sundays at Dianella Heights Primary School. We also run mid-week online classes for students who prefer an online option. Call us for more information on how to enrol for a FREE trial on 0444 509 732 or email us on [email protected].

24.01.2022 Heres a story by Oscar, a talented Year 5 writer who has mastered the art of psychological tension. ----- Julius strode into his mansion confident and high-held. He eyed his servants wearily and dismissed them with a wave of his hand. He wouldnt want to disturb their respect, oh no. As they trotted away, his serious, hard face melted into an expression of pure smugness. Compared to his namesake Julius Caesar, Julius Beau was so similar yet so different. Julius Beau, for exa...mple, instead of conquering land, had proclaimed his wealth from his success (or dirty work) in technology. His mind drifted away to his last scheme, the collapse of NASAs system. For all it means, it was the best plot ever to be held in the JCTA (Julius Computer Technology Association). Why, all he had to do was put a trillion ads (not exaggerating) in the main software and it would corrupt. He was dreaming of his next scheme, a wild and dangerous one, hacking into the royal family (a small one, to be safe) by using an advanced form of malware, when a sudden sense of uncertainness wafted and lingered into the air. It turned acrid, and sour, when he tried to filter it with his mind, then what it was hit him. He flashed back to the time he was homeless, and living with his family in the slums of Chicago. He had sensed something extremely bitter, as they walked through the crowds of glaring people, eyeing every one of them wearily and calculating what the people would do to them if they didnt acquire a job or a source of money. It was then Julius had discovered a dirty technology company. It was as if someone was smoking next to him, quite aware of what the JCTA actually stood for (Juliuss Corruption of Technology Association) and of what the stranger next to him was capable of. With just a wave of his hand, Julius could order the death of the technology inside of any mans body. It was the sense of fear, leaking through the thought of what would happen next...

23.01.2022 Ronan, a Year 6 student, wrote a wonderful piece inspired by the beginning of Fahrenheit 451. Its full of rich language and descriptive details, and strong characterisation. ----- Rubys eyes were transfixed on the words of the last copy of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The pages felt like gold beneath her once white gloved fingers. The curtains were drawn and a single candle lit the bare room. Places in the furniture bulged where books were hidden. Encyclopaedias... were neatly bundled and stacked in cupboards and novels were packed under the bed. A former librarian badge sat on the mantlepiece. Ever since the year 2060, books had been banned and libraries closed. Firefighters no longer extinguished fires, they burned books and the homes that hid them. The library Ruby worked for was forced to close and Ruby was left jobless. The literary world was at stake. The once placid paradise was now a poverty-stricken world. Smoke filled the air and homes with books burst into flames. Ruby had painstakingly managed to hide her secret stash of books for this long. Suddenly, the stomping sound of heavy boots on the stairwell startled her. Her heart thumped like an out of control drum. As she rushed to her room to hide away the book she was holding, she stumbled on the threadbare carpet. Golden locks of hair fell on to her pale, terrified face. The book was wrenched from her grip. It came to rest at the black ash covered boots. She was out numbered but she wasnt going down without a fight. She picked up the only ornament in the room. The cold metal of the heavy vase soothed her pulsing hand. She turned to the firemen with determination and courage in her eyes.

22.01.2022 At Rise, were always inspired by the humour and sheer enjoyment our students show in their writing. Heres a description of a rather run-down school by Charles, one of our talented writers. ----- Mr Lindsey shuffled into the classroom as lunchtime bell died. He had been at St Pubert School for the Mentally Challenged for decades because my dad said he had Mr Lindsay during the 1990s. ... Mr Lindsey was a slim man with poor posture so slouched in his chair when teaching the class. He rarely stood up, only to scribble something on the old blackboard if nobody understood what he was saying. He was partially deaf and never could hear the chatter from the back rows. St Puberts had ancient teachers, mostly male, who had been in the school for centuries. Not only were the teachers old and stale but the classrooms were never updated. The place was as dull as an abandoned prison at night. Only one of the classrooms boasted a whiteboard - the old blackboard had fallen off the wall due to a small earth tremor in 2015. With blackboards obsolete, the school bought the only option available, a whiteboard. The walls in the classrooms and corridors were a faded blue that had black scuff marks where children purposefully ran their black sole shoes along the bottom to see how much rubber they could take off. In summer it was too hot to concentrate because the sash windows were either broken or sealed shut with paint or bubble gum. There was a ceiling fan in the room but most of the time it only operated on the lowest setting, making a wishing noise similar to a dog panting after a long run. Nobody ever wanted to sit under it. It was the youll be sorry seat for students who arrived late to class. St Puberts was largely forgotten by the Education Department because no new funding ever came its way to modernise the facilities. It was a run-down, ugly and hideous building. There were rumours we were relocating to the east side of the town where a large parcel of land was earmarked for a new state of the art modern high school. It seemed hard to believe that we would ever see this happen but maybe my children, when I eventually have them, would attend the new and improved St Puberts. Third time lucky, I say for my family. Dad and I had the old run-down version and my future offspring would, hopefully, be a part of something much better than what we both had. Im not holding my hopes high for this to happen anytime soon. There was a cough and we stared wearily at Mr Lindsey. He shuffled to the blackboard

21.01.2022 This week in Maths, Year 4s and 5s are exploring fractions. Heres a problem our Year 4s will be tackling that high school students might struggle with. A piggy bank is full of 50c and $1 coins. 2/5 of the coins are 50c coins. The rest are $1 coins. If there are 10 more $1 coins than 50c coins, how much money is in the piggy bank? Hint: use the bar method

21.01.2022 This weekend, Year 6s are using their algebra skills to solve number pattern problems. These often come up in selective school and scholarship tests and are very solvable with algebra. Heres an example of a problem: At Trump Towers, the first floor is 5 m above ground level. Each subsequent floor is 3 m above the previous floor. A) How high is the 30th floor? B) What floor is 155 m high?

21.01.2022 Writing a literary essay or analysis is a critical skill for Year 11 and 12. Our Teen Writers learn to analyse a text, before writing a structured literary essay that includes comprehension, interpretation, analysis and insight. Last week, we explored Tennysons poem "In Memoriam". This week, were analysing one of our favourite poems, Shelleys "Ozymandias". Fans of The Watchmen comics or movie would be familiar with the poem! I met a traveller from an antique land... Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. See more

19.01.2022 Our high school writers explored Homers The Odyssey before writing their own poem using epic, free verse poetry. Heres a poem written by one of our talented Year 7 students in which the hero Odysseus encounters the Titan Atlas. It captures the lofty, inspiring style of Homer while employing vivid imagery. -----... Breathe in me, Athena, And help the voyager survive this The plight of certain death. Give me wisdom to the man who is journeying to this place. Our ship made rapidly for the blackened shore of the great Titan of Atlas. The crew motionless, abandoning duty And legs trembling, but still noble, for only the brave tremble but Still carry on. We have faced the wrath of Scylla, tricked The deadly sirens and their songs escaped the inescapable island of the nymph Calypso and survived multiple deaths and tragedies. Make no mistake that they were easy to overcome. Still, our knees go weak with fear The great beast that holds the sky Looms overhead and behold! Jagged rocks and putrid of smell A spiders den, the sweat of men And the giant Titan, cursed by the gods. We climb like foolish men, Legs trembling but carrying on like a sheep to the killing. And alas! Huge and beastly, Rancid and terror striking, Creep in his web of power and you shall be devoured. The great beast roars, but we have yet to move from our frozen silhouettes The black rock upon his shoulders Quivering, shuddering. Titan of the great mountain Immortal of the sagas A volcano threatening to wake up. Help me! Gravelly his voice, lies and deceit, desperation. Suspiciously we pray on, and I feel my crew weakening. Then the cabin boy! The stern man The second sailor! The Titan, free of his burden, leers at us. A terrible, terrible rage pulses through me, The wrath of Zeus punctures me. Athenas wisdom and cunning infuse me. My dear Titan, I begin, Showing outright disrespect as my foolish crew suffer The Titan leers and begins to reach out to me I wrack my brain for the cunningness I possess. To soften our, weight, it must have been ghastly, He flinches, his massive shoulders halting, His mouth involuntarily grimacing. Rejoice! As he contemplates, I summon the spear of my hands With the strength of Zeus anger, I push him back. Helios, warm my skin For days and weeks, I languished at the encounter. My muscles trembling. I cannot recount what happened next. I collapsed in terror as the Titan bellowed. Sinking into a haze of comfortable sleep. But onward! To the next journey. Brush off the terrors, for we are brave men The gods will not help me once again. They have given me a chance to live and that is all I need.

18.01.2022 TERM 3 CLASSES We are excited to announce that Term 3 will include BOTH face-to-face and online classes. Face-to-face classes... * Booragoon (Saturdays) and Dianella (Sundays) - timetable as before * online writing homework submission with written feedback * additional reading materials - curated non-fiction texts to boost comprehension, general knowledge and technical vocabulary for Years 4, 5, 6 and teen classes * children can print class materials and preview lessons * hands-on maths activities to extend and deepen understanding * students can attend a catch-up online class if unwell or away * students can attend an online class to repeat a lesson if they dont understand the content, especially for our gifted Maths program * Maths homework questions with fully-worked solutions * weekly Maths Facts questions to identify and close any gaps in student understanding Online classes * held during the week - Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs after school * convenience - students can learn from their own home without needing to travel to class * online writing homework submission with written feedback * additional reading materials - curated non-fiction texts to boost comprehension, general knowledge and technical vocabulary for Years 4, 5, 6 and teen classes * children can print class materials and preview lessons * parents can learn alongside their child, especially to access our gifted Maths program * Maths homework questions with fully-worked solutions * weekly Maths Facts questions to identify and close any gaps in student understanding Additional benefits * Writers Club, at cost - for students seeking additional writing practice and detailed written feedback. * free online parent information sessions - e.g. teaching your child multiplication and division; encouraging your child to read; preparing for Year 6 GATE / scholarships * free online Master classes - e.g. we will be holding an after-school Fractions master class for Years 5 and 6 in Week 9 We are excited by this model which will suit every childs needs, while continuing the teaching and learning innovations we introduced this term.

18.01.2022 Year 6s explored Ray Bradburys dystopian masterpiece, Fahrenheit 451. The novel imagines a future where books are banned and "firemen" burn books and the homes that harbour them. Aizra, whos been attending Rise for almost two years, wrote an extraordinary piece about a librarian and the last dictionary. -----... Lucy opened the delicate book. Her hands were trembling like the tremors of an earthquake, her nose twitching as it smelt red streaks of heat. Drawing her vermilion velvet curtains, she peered out the window and stared disbelievingly at the dreadful destroyer. Fire. The searing grin of the firefighters tore the world apart. Menacing eyes pierced the sky. Precious history was being incinerated by the second. She clasped her book like a snake squeezing its prey. Lucy collapsed to her chair, not being able to process what shed just witnessed. Gazing at the dictionary, she wondered if it would be the last survivor of its kind in the entire world. A piece of half-burnt paper floated through her window into the room. A string of words - The Lord of the Rings flashed before her eyes. Her eardrums pounded, syncopated beatings by the second. A freezing chill slithered through her spine. A sting of coldness tied her heart. "Clunk. The heavy drag of boots echoed along the stairwell.

18.01.2022 Distance, speed and time questions really challenge a student's problem solving skills. This week, our talented Year 5s are solving questions like this deceptively simple question: It takes Andy 35 minutes to cycle to school then walk home. If Andy cycled both ways, it takes 14 minutes. How much more time would Andy take if he walked both ways?

18.01.2022 In high school, students go from writing stories (creating) to writing about stories (analysing). We've been teaching our gifted Year 6s literary analysis and have been astounded by how quickly they're developing their ability to write a literary essay. Last week, we analysed H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale "The Call of Cthulhu". Like H.G. Wells and "The War of the Worlds", Lovecraft's main theme is the utter insignificance of mankind in the face of a vastly superior alien intelligence. Lovecraft uses literary techniques such as simile/metaphor, allusion, symbolism; as well as the language of science and maths to convey this theme.

18.01.2022 Parent Information Talk - "Encouraging Your Child to Read" Anne Champion, an international expert in Early Childhood Learning, will be giving an online talk to Rise parents on reading. This is a great opportunity for parents to learn practical strategies to foster a love of reading and to support your childs reading journey.... Date: Wednesday 10th June 2020 Time: 7.00 pm - 8.00 pm Who: Rise parents with children in Kindergarten, Preschool, Years 1, 2 and 3 Zoom Meeting ID details will be provided upon registration.

18.01.2022 Kenneth is a gifted Year 6 student who has attending Rise for over two years. Students were asked to write on the topic "The Dandelion". Kenneth chose poetry as his genre. Wonderful. -----... The wind carried me off my feet To land unseen where the dandelions grow Blowing in waves the petals fall Luck blown to the tide, To crash and fall A land peaceful, with no strings attached Remote, and silent Wind whistles to the evening blows And yet it stands there, the dandelion With a mane of white, hairs fall off proudly drifting into the sunset In a land with no worries the petal falls Drifting pass the sea, carried by the storm Life away from everywhere else The tides dream of a better future It is always there drifting around Found by ships passing by Their hearts soar when they find it Their dreams of a better future, still intact. When they dream of a better future at night It hovers blessing all in sight It drifts off, helping all Inside their hearts they know its there. The floret flies around, No matter who you are it will always be there It comes up when its brightest And helps us in the dark. Drifting around with trails of white Millions of its brethren do the same Land they cross Sea they ride There is so much time. It holds strong when others do not Lifting each other up, they power on Fighting the storm, it uses its strength The marathon in which it rides Is reaching its end Touched by light It glitters in the sunset How much there is Increases They know what they are doing Know where they are going They hold on tight to keep moving All that breaks them down, helps them As the winds blow hard And the rain collides The floret falters its stride Pressed by ideas And the rain of people The sound is clear Lightning strikes It breaks all light With darkness coming Winter is here It would be easy to falter, to wither and die Give up, The floret resists As thunder booms It drives through Facing the storm Until its gone Spring comes, the flowers bloom The floret falls Its journey closed It lands on the ground planting its seeds Many where lost But now its over It grows as tall as it can be Its own florets come To begin their own journey For the future. One lands on the floor Picked up by those who see HOPE

17.01.2022 RISE Online classes are live today!!! Our Year 3s having a very interactive lesson learning about Shapes and Symmetry this morning. Contact us on [email protected] for more information about our RISE online learning platform available for Term 2.

17.01.2022 Comedy is one of our favourite writing genres. Comedy takes something ordinary or expected, and turns it into something unexpected and absurd. You also need a humorous tone and mood, which means careful word selection. We gave our Year 6s a cartoon and asked them to turn it into a piece of comedy writing. Heres one written by Darren:... It was a grey morning when Ronald Trump was cheerily trotting down the street. What a lovely day, he thought to himself. No wind or rain. Then he peered at the sky that had suddenly turned a dark shade of black. A flash of lighting slashed him followed by the thunderous applause of thunder. Then a gust of wind snatched his toupee from his shiny head. He sprinted after his highly esteemed toupee, legs whirling like the wheels of a Lewis Hamilton car. The toupee skidded to a halt. At last! he bellowed, staring at the now stationary hairpiece. I shall teach you a lesson! He stomped furiously on the toupee as if he was teaching his brother Donald a lesson. He picked up the toupee which now resembled a hairy pancake. He dumped it on his egg-shaped scalp and turned back for home, the corners of his mouth pulled into an upside-down U. The sky was now a brilliant blue and the sun shone bright and high in the sky. As he passed by his neighbours house, his neighbour waved cheerfully, What a lovely day. And whats with your hair? Ronald Trump grunted a response. He reached his doorstep and heaved himself into the doorway. ---- And one written by Isabella: Jupiter Jacks had a gigantic head perched on a bamboo stick body. On his head was a miniature beret, his most beloved possession that he had owned since he was six. It was a Tuesday afternoon and Jupiter had departed on his usual stroll around his neighbourhood. Leaves swirled around his legs as winter was coming. Jupiter trudged onwards shaking the tickling leaves off, thinking only about the warm sun and clear blue sky. Suddenly, a gust of wind cut him from his thoughts. Then his beret was flying through the air like a pigeon! He pursued it, leaping through the air as it continued to fly away. Then the wind stopped and with it, his hat. He toppled over and landed on top of his precious beret. He stared at his squashed beret. Anger boiled over and he leapt onto his already flat beret, stomping in fury. Head spinning with anger, Jupiter picked up the now flattened beret and replaced it on his head.

17.01.2022 Term 4 classes start this weekend. Our talented Year 6s will be exploring one of our favourite poems - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". It shows Poe's mastery of rhythm, rhyme, mood, suspense and imagery. Here are the first three stanzas: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,... As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ’Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore Nameless here for evermore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating ’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; This it is and nothing more.

17.01.2022 Our gifted high school students are analysing Shakespeare's Macbeth over the next three weeks. Macbeth is rightly one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with its themes of ambition, guilt and the role of fate versus choice. This soliloquy, in which Macbeth contemplates the moral and spiritual consequences of his plan to slay the rightful King Duncan, demonstrates the beauty of Shakespeare's language and his deep insight into human nature. -----... If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.

16.01.2022 We just have to share one more Homeric poem, this time written by Zion, another of our talented high school writers. Zion captured the lofty majesty of Homers epic in an encounter with the Hydra. Wonderful. ---... The ship sailed for the Lake of Lerna I was to bring the head of the infamous hydra To be freed from the prison heaven Ogygia We set sail to the unforeseeable quest The sky grew dark and the fog began to get dense The water started to churn and waves grew bigger The boat started to rock back and forth violently Water started to wash upon the deck of the ship And pointy rocks started to render in to view Many once famous ships that sailed Here sailed right. Into. Death The ship sail onwards and onwards until it reached land This was not as I expected the sailors to feel As the land was land But it was so dull and gross It was like a Pyrrhic victory The air was filled with a smell of rotting flesh of past challengers The bodies were splatted over the island Pine trees seemed to arch over them The woods were haunted and possessed by something evil The arms and leg were dislocated off the bodies and blood decorated the trees.

16.01.2022 Why do we love (and need) dystopian literature?

16.01.2022 Enrolments are now open for Term 4 at both Mount Pleasant College (Saturdays) and Dianella Heights Primary School (Sundays). Our online classes are also available for Year 3, 4, 5, 6 and teen writings during the weekdays. Email us on [email protected] for more information or enrol for a free trial on our website www.riselearning.com.au.

16.01.2022 A literary essay discusses and analyses a literature text, focusing on themes, language and literary techniques. It is the most challenging task undertaken by English students and represents the culmination of 14 years of formal English education from kindergarten, pre-school, primary school and high school. Our high school students have been writing literary essays on Tennyson's poem In Memoriam using skills we first introduced in Year 6 Rise. Here's an essay by Isabella, a ...Continue reading

14.01.2022 GATE Workshops To support our Year 6 Rise students preparing for the GATE test, we will be running online practice workshops on Mondays 4.30 - 5.30 pm, commencing Monday 4 February. The workshops will run for five weeks and focus on non-verbal reasoning IQ style problems.... The workshops are complementary for all Year 6 Rise students. They follow our complementary GATE / Scholarship Maths workshops that we ran for Year 5 Rise students in Term 4 2020.

13.01.2022 GATE Information Session (27th August 2020) We have an information session for Rise parents with children planning to take GATE (now known as ASET) and scholarship tests in Year 6 in 2021. We will be holding our session online via Zoom.... Details are as follows: Date and Time: 7.30pm - 8.00pm Thursday 27th August 2020 and 10 mins of Q&A Venue : via Zoom. Meeting ID provided upon sign up. The talk will cover information about GATE and scholarship exams and what to expect. We will also share tips on how to practice at home with your child and what materials will be helpful. Please RSVP if you would like to attend the information session. The session is open to all parents with children enrolled at RISE.

13.01.2022 Year 4 students have been mastering action writing. Techniques include focusing on character goals, strong action verbs, using paragraphing for effect and engaging emotion, while also including rich descriptive details. Hanna, one of our gifted Year 4 authors, wrote this thrilling scene about a Kraken attack. Amazing writing, Hannah! ---... Dark clouds rolled across the sky. The waves became faster and stronger. Suddenly out of the deeps rose an enormous, dark orange Kraken. It slowly swam across the surface of the ocean towards a sailing ship. A great gust of wind blew the ship towards the Kraken. The sailors were shaking with fear as they slunk across the deck to get as far as they could from the Kraken. An army of tentacles as sharp as spears surrounded the helpless ship. They grasped it and lifted the poor ship with her prow smashed from the carelessness of the Kraken. The tentacles lifted the ship high, high above the raging waters. The Kraken swung the ship to and fro like a toddler playing with its toy boat in the bathtub. The faces of the sailors were green with terror and seasickness. Even a sailor who boasted that he never felt seasick had to admit he felt like vomiting. Then the Kraken slowly released the ship. The ship plunged back into the angry water. The screams of the sailors were drowned by a great splash which drenched them. One of the sailors was thrown overboard, shrieking as the Kraken caught him and threw him back into the ship. The Kraken struck the ship with a quick blow of his tentacles. The timbers began to crack. The huge, tall mast snapped in half and fell overboard causing more damage to the ship. There was a loud splintering noise. The ship was breaking in half! The sailors jumped into life boats but their hands were shaking so much that they couldnt row properly. The Kraken gave a final blow, shattering the ship into a thousand pieces. Satisfied with its work, the Kraken returned to the deep

12.01.2022 Our gifted Year 4s are exploring distance, speed and time this weekend at Rise Maths. Heres a question for our Year 4s that would challenge a Year 7 student! A plane departs Perth at 9.15 am and arrives at its destination at 3.15 pm after travelling at an average speed of 500 km/h. How fast must it fly if it was to arrive instead at 2.15 pm?

12.01.2022 Rise School 2021 Many parents will remember when Rise Online launched Rise School during the first COVID lockdown in 2020. Rise School offered free morning classes in Maths and English for Rise students forced to stay home because of school closures. The recent announcement that schools will remain closed this week will no doubt be disappointing for children keen to commence learning and reconnect with friends after the long Summer break.... We have therefore decided to relaunch Rise School to support our parents and children during this difficult time. Classes will commence Tuesday 2 February via Zoom and cover Maths and English for Years 3/4 and Years 5/6. Classes are open to all current Rise students. There is no additional cost to parents. The classes will be taught by Rise Learning Academy’s Founder and Principal, Gavin Goh, and will run as follows: Every Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday until schools re-open 9.00 9.45 am Year 3/4 Maths 9.45 10.30 am Year 3/4 English Break 11.00 11.45 am Year 5/6 Maths 11.45 am 12.30 pm Year 5/6 Writing In these extraordinary times, children are not immune to the anxiety and uncertainty confronting the rest of the community. The learning and wellbeing of our students has always been at the heart of our philosophy at Rise. Rise Online and Rise School will keep children connected to their friends and peers, provide welcome stability and routine for their emotional wellbeing, while engaging them in learning until such time as schools re-open.

12.01.2022 Our Year 6s will be using their algebra skills this week for an online Escape Room challenge. Heres one of the fiendishly challenging questions theyll need to solve with algebra! The Golden Happy Lucky Bamboo Dragon Restaurant bought a 90 kg drum of monosodium glutamate. After just one evening, only half the monosodium glutamate ... remained. If the drum weighs 46 kg now, how much does the empty drum weigh? See more

10.01.2022 We are so excited to be back face to face in Term 3. Enrolments are now open for Year 2 - 6 for writing and maths. We have Teen writing classes available as well to develop analytical skills for high school English. Classes will be running on Saturdays from Mount Pleasant College (Booragoon) and on Sundays from Dianella Heights Primary School. Call us for more information on how to enrol for a FREE trial on 0444509732 or email us on [email protected].

08.01.2022 Our talented Year 6s are solving Year 8 chemistry problems using ratios. Can your solve this problem? The chemical compound glucose contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms bonded in the ratio 1 : 2 : 1. If the total number of atoms in a molecule is 24, find the number of A) carbon, B) hydrogen and C) oxygen atoms. D) Write the chemical formula for glucose (it is not CH2O!)

08.01.2022 Year 4s and 5s have been learning suspense techniques. These include setting, mood and atmosphere, dynamic characters and the slow build up. Heres a truly terrifying story by Erin, a Year 4 writer who has a future career as a best-selling horror author! -----... Belles Upturned Day Thunderclouds shadowed Room Elevens windows. At the front of the classroom, a whiteboard loomed over the many rows of wooden desks. Above the whiteboard stood an antique clock that never stopped ticking. Miss Sally had just left the classroom to do some photocopying. Belle looked up from her maths book wondering why the clock had stopped ticking and the class was so quiet. The recess bell rang then died away. Belle leapt to her feet in excitement then stared in surprise as everyone else was still seated. Some of the students had passed out on their desks and were turning a pale shade of green. Curiously, she leaned in towards Oscar, the boy who was slumped in his chair next to her and noticed a red mark on his neck. As she turned around, they slowly turned their faces to stare at her with cold, blank expressions. Then they unsteadily rose from their seats and stumbled towards her with arms outstretched like a pack of lions stalking their prey. Beads of sweat dripped off her pale face. Her pounding heart was beating against her ribcage. She kept backing away until her back was against the cold, hard wall. Belle opened her mouth to scream for help but her throat was paralysed like the rest of her body. Belle spotted a water bottle lying beside her. Hoping it was full, she threw it at the approaching classmates. Belle waited for the splash of water. Nothing. The water bottle was empty. Belle grabbed another bottle off the floor. SPLASH!!! The ice cold water drenched the classmates. It had slowed them down but they were still approaching her. Her eyes frantically scanned the classroom for an escape route. At the end of classroom was a door leading into the storeroom. She dashed into the storeroom and fastened the lock with a click. Her heart beat fast as she heard the THUD...THUD...on the other side.

08.01.2022 RISE Learning starts today! Welcome back to Term 2! We hope everyone has had a nice, quiet, relaxing holiday. We are looking forward to continuing the journey of learning with each of you. Term 2 is jam packed full of new challenging topics so its full steam ahead as our teachers are ready to unpack our very exciting syllabus. We look forward to seeing you all online! There are limited spots still available in our Year 3-6 and teen writing classes for those who havent signed up. Please contact [email protected] or call 0444 509 732 for more information about our classes.

08.01.2022 Year 5s have been solving challenging word problems using the Bar Method. Its all about understanding and breaking down the problem. Heres one we particularly like. A family of two adults and three children went to Adventure World. They spent $168 in fees. If children were charged half price, whats the price of each ticket type?

07.01.2022 If the Ancient Indians hadnt invented the Base 10 number system, we wouldnt have decimals. This week, our talented Year 5s will be using their knowledge of decimals to solve problems like this: A baker mixed 3.12 kg of flour and 2.43 kg of sugar before dividing the mixture equally into cups. If three cups weighed 0.333 kg, how many cups were used?

07.01.2022 Juxtaposition is where contrasting ideas, images, symbols or characters are placed side-by-side in a text. Authors use juxtaposition to highlight differences or to emphasise something by contrasting it with something else, for example, the goodness of the hero is highlighted by the evil of the villain. This weekend, our Teen Writers are exploring juxtaposition in Patrick Suskunds novel "Perfume". We have a special challenge in store for students - one that requires them to use their olfactory powers!

07.01.2022 A great way to understand literary techniques is to analyse a text and then write your own scene using those same techniques. In our "Needful Things" scene, Stephen King used allusion, juxtaposition and imagery to convey the novels themes of consumerism and greed/obsession. Heres a scene written by Jared, another talented Year 7 writer....Continue reading

07.01.2022 Classes are Online this Weekend (Sat 6 Feb / Sun 7 Feb) We are grateful that there have been no new community cases of COVID since Western Australia entered lockdown on Sunday night. The situation however remains an evolving one which creates significant uncertainty for families and businesses. Given this uncertainty, we will be conducting all face-to-face classes this weekend (Week 2) via Rise Online. Classes will be taught live on Zoom by our teachers with class materials a...vailable via Moodle before the lesson. Classes will run online even if the State lifts the lockdown on Friday night. Most parents and students are already familiar with Rise Online from the 2020 lockdown. Children have also been taking part in Rise School which we have been running this week to support students in Years 3-6 because of school closures. We will be on-hand to assist any parent on the weekend with accessing Zoom and Moodle. We anticipate returning to face-to-face classes as soon as possible and will reassess again next week in light of the changing situation in the State. In the meantime, we ask that you stay safe and well. Our thoughts go out in particular to our families and teachers who have been impacted by the bushfire crisis.

07.01.2022 This week, Year 4s will be exploring averages in Maths. Average or mean is a concept not covered until the Australian Year 7 Curriculum. Our talented Year 4s should however have no trouble understanding and applying the concept to solve problems like this: Sharni, Molly and Emeli went bug hunting. Sharni and Molly collected 3 bugs each. Emeli collected twice as many bugs as Sharni. What was the average number of bugs collected?

07.01.2022 On Wednesday, we held a free 1.5 hour GATE / Scholarship Writing Workshop for Year 6 Rise students. Students learnt writing tips and discussed ideas for different topics. They wrote a 25-minute topic that we mark and provide comments on how to improve. Our second free GATE Scholarship Writing Workshop will be held on Wednesday 4 March at Dianella Heights Primary School.

06.01.2022 Stephen King is celebrated by many as the Dickens of our times. His novels are carefully crafted with rich characterisation and setting. Our Teen Writers explored a scene in Kings novel "Needful Things" focusing on the themes of consumerism and greed/obsession. Weve been teaching our Teen Writers how to write a literary essay at Year 11/12 standard. This develops an important skill while also fostering an appreciation of literature. Heres an essay written by Hannah, a Year...Continue reading

04.01.2022 Edgar Allen Poe was a master story teller best known for his horror short stories. Our Year 6s studied his suspense techniques such as the importance of setting, mood and atmosphere, and the slow build up, before reading two of his greatest stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Masque of the Red Death". Heres a story written by one of our gifted writers, Isla. Definitely not something to read alone at night! -----...Continue reading

04.01.2022 We ran a free parent information session yesterday evening on multiplication and division strategies. These are challenging concepts for children in Years 1, 2 and 3 to pick up. Parents can support their child with key concepts, hands-on activities and times tables practice. Weve put the presentation slides together with a Rise times tables powerpoint on Moodle that parents can download and use.

04.01.2022 Looking for ways to extend and challenge your children? We have a unique approach to our writing and math courses that will engage and foster the love of learning in your child. Limited spots are still available in our online classes this term (Saturdays and Sundays for year 3-6). Email us on [email protected] or call us on 0444509732 for more information about our classes.

04.01.2022 WRITING MASTERCLASS presented by our principal Mr Gavin Goh LLB B.Com W.Aust LLM Sydney MA Deakin Grad.Dip.Arts Monash Grad.Dip.Ed Edith Cowan MACE. Learn about the great Villains of Literature in our 1.5 hour online writing class tailored to suit teens in Secondary 1-3. Explore settings, characterisation and the use of narrative techniques in these great works. Improve your writing skills in our masterclass series ($160 for 4 sessions). Sessions starting 8th April: Wed an...d Fri 7pm-8.30pm or Sat and Sun 10am-11.30am For more information about our courses please email [email protected]. or visit our website www.riselearning.com.au.

03.01.2022 This week, Year 4s will be using their bar method knowledge to solve fraction problems like this one. There are 3/7 as many black chess pieces as white chess pieces in a box. If there are 140 chess pieces, how many of each piece are there?