Student 

Achievements

Year 9 Design Technology Precious Plastics Online Program – Monash University 

On Friday 10th September, all students studying Year 9 Material Technology, Year 9 Woodwork, and Year 9 Interior Design took part in an online presentation and design challenge run by the Precious Plastic Monash Team.  

Students gained insight to a variety of study areas at Monash University related to creating sustainable design. 

They also were given insight into the design process used by the team, much like our own product design process. The students finished off the session with a design challenge to create their own solution to our plastic waste issues.  

Thank you to Monash University for running this program, Ms. Jepson and Ms. Takla for their work during the sessions and congratulations to Group 6 for winning the challenge with their recycles plastic planter boxes idea for the school! 

Mr. Mello 

STEM Learning Specialist 

National Health & PE Day – WHSC 10,000 Steps Challenge 

On Wednesday 1st of September, WHSC staff and students were set the challenge of aiming to complete 10,000 steps across their day. Students were encouraged as part of National Health & Physical Education day to find ways to be physically active and to incorporate steps into their schedule. Students opted for a range of activities to achieve this, including, kicking the football in the back yard, taking the dog for a walk, YouTube workouts and going for a run.  

As a school we were not only aiming to do this for our own health, but also to raise money for the Heart Foundation, with WHSC donating $1 for every student and staff member who completed this challenge. The Heart Foundation’s mission is to reduce heart disease and improve the heart health and quality of life for all Australians through their work in Risk Reduction, Support, Care and Research.  

The final tally of staff and students who completed this incredible achievement was 154! On average, each person completed 12,636 steps. If we estimate that on average that the stride length of a step was 0.9 metres, this equates to approximately 1751 kilometres!! Which is just further than the distance between Wheelers Hill and Brisbane!  

Well done to everyone who completed this challenge and in particular the Year Level champions below: 

Year 7: Rebecca Wright (16,270 steps) 

Year 8: Charlotte Hider (16,034 steps) 

Year 9: Kayla Vollerup (28,256 steps) 

Year 10: Joshua Worona (25,348 steps) 

Year 11: Maryam Asad (11,044 steps) 

Year 12: Jessica Petreski (11,416 steps) 

Staff: Mr Molan (20,722 steps) 

Ryan Joyce 

Health & PE Domain Leader 

National Science Week 

14-22 August 

Well we weren’t at school but National Science Week was celebrated by the students at the college.  

Competitions 

Are Science Week Competition allowed our students to explore the word of Designer food. Who knew you could 3D print food? 

Congratulations to our winners for each of the three sections as listed below. Hopefully they enjoyed their prizes. 

Junior: Waasi Thaquiyyuddin 

Special mention to Vismaya Rao 

Intermediate: Maia Rooney-Ho; 

Special mention to Jake Jeffery, Bri Chandler and Kim Pillig 

Senior: Riyu Li; 

Special mention to Renae Volk and Maddy Huckel 

Did you know?

The first lab-grown burger was presented to journalists in 2013. It cost approximately $300,000 to produce this one burger? 

It takes approximately 80 days for a carrot to grow, tomatoes take approximately 77 days and broccoli takes between 16 and 20 weeks!  

Insects are an excellent source of protein. Crickets, mealworm and grasshoppers are part of the new wave of alternatives to meat being rich in protein, iron, calcium and healthy fats, but witchetty grubs and sugar ants have long been used as a rich source of protein by indigenous Australians 

Our successful students did. 

Some of the 3D food photos entered as part of the competition. 

Food: 

Perform Education delivered their live-stream events to our Year 8’s as part of the Science and Food Technology programs. This allowed our students to learn about Sustainable Agriculture, how tech innovation drives sustainable food production, types of laboratory food and the unintended consequences of food tech and the need for food resilience and security. All while being amused and entertained. 

Just some of the comments from the Year 8s’ 

Harley….”it was fun to watch” 

Daniel…. “It was very intresting and i learnt a lot” 

Makayla….. “It was informational and entertaining.” 

Cameron…. “ It was intresting and entertaining.” 

Aaron…… “ it was entertaining and letting us learn at the same time” 

Logan…… “ I learned a lot from it” 

Below are some screen shots from the show 

 Future of Food 

Once we are back at school we are still hoping to offer students the chance to task some of the more exotic options of new foods being designed today with Cricket Chips (Who knew they could be a thing?) and maybe other tasty morsels. 

We also look forward to what the Food Technology group may put together for us to try once Ms Sharpe is let loose in the kitchen again. 

Mr McGlynn and the Science Domain 

Mr Mello, Ms Sharpe and the Technology Domain 

Year 9 Principal Semester 1 Academia Awardees  

The Year 9 Remote Assembly Friday 10th September acknowledged the Outstanding Academia recipients.  

Students and families have received the High Distinction, Distinction and Credit certificates, along with the Creativity, Excellence and Respect awards electronically.  

Congratulations to the Year 9 students who continue to show their achievements brilliantly in the remote setting. We applaud these achievements and wish them continued success in Term 4 to prepare for Senior School in 2022. 

Miss Jacinta Wilson  

Year 9 Coordinator