KESJ: 5 August 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010

5 August 2010

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Today was Open Day at school, where parents and friends could visit the classrooms and watch the children at work. We also enjoyed the exhibition "Sculpture on the Hill", where sculptures by the school children were displayed around the school.

Above is Jeremy's class sculpture - "How Does Your Garden Grow?". We were asked to collect plastic bottles during the school holidays so that they could make these flowers in class! The sculpture's message is "are [we] recycling and looking after our environment? Because if we don't care for our world, all we will have left is plastic."

Each child at school made a little clay figure to make the amazing sculpture below entitled "Chatswood Field". Can you find Jeremy's clay figure in the front row (click on the photo to enlarge it)?

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Definitions

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) - a rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. ALL affects the type of developing white blood cells known as lymphocytes. It is the most common form of childhood leukaemia, and the most common type of childhood cancer. It also occurs in adults.

Blast cells - immature blood cells normally found in the bone marrow. Blast cells normally constitute up to 5% of all bone marrow cells. These cells divide and replenish all the normal blood cells in the marrow and circulating blood. Acute leukaemia is characterised by an accumulation of abnormal blast cells that take over the marrow and spill out into the blood stream.

Bone marrow transplant - the process of replacing bone marrow cells (stem cells) that are unhealthy, with stem cells that are healthy. The healthy stem cells are re-infused intravenously through the central line, after very strong chemotherapy and/or radiation to kill unhealthy stem cells. The re-infusion of healthy stem cells essentially rescues the patient from the chemotherapy and/or radiation, by enabling his or her bone marrow to start producing new blood cells.