Our school is a large one with approximately 820 students, 23 classrooms and 5 Pre Primary classes. We have 29 students in our class.
Our city is situated just on the very edge of the Great Victoria Desert at 121.3 E long and 30.8 S lat. As we sit just on the edge of a desert, we experience very big weather changes over a year. Our summers are very hot (the average temperature is about 38 degrees celcius) and our winters are very cold (especially at night when it can get to minus 2 degrees) Some of you may not think that this is very cold but it is to us!!
Our city is a mining place, we are famous for the gold mining that goes on here. We were founded just over 100 years ago when three men, Paddy Hannan, Tom Flanagan, Daniel OShea, discovered gold and started one of Australia's great gold rushes. We are starting to mine nickel here as well.
We are looking forward to sending you information about the weather from 'Down Under'
Cheers
Room 22
South Kalgoorlie Primary School Western Australia