Learning Updates
- School of Innovation
The power you're supplying is electrifying!
In Year 9 Science, we conducted an experiment to make light. We held a piece of lead in between two clips. When we put the clips onto each side of the lead and turned the battery on, it made the lead glow. The higher you turned up the machine, the more the lead would start to smoke and glow. If you weren’t careful it would spark. Then once you turned it off the lead would snap. This showed us how the flow of electricity can produce light.
- Charli Lloyd and Jazz Mackin, Year 9, School of Innovation
Sherbet - it's the bomb
Year 7 students created sherbet during a chemistry lesson in the mixtures topic; this was also a lesson on ratios. I love that the students took their learning outside the classroom and shared with the wider school. I think Christian was game trying the sherbet after seeing some of the looks on the students' faces when they were trying to get the ratios right!
- Chelsea Nicholson, School of Innovation Learning Mentor
Year 8 students have been doing scientific investigations into paper helicopters and matchstick models as a simple simulation of a bushfire.
Fauna Park visit links to biodiversity studies
On Monday the 5th of September the Year 8 students went to the Kyabram Fauna Park to continue on with their biodiversity studies for Term 3 in their cycle classes. The Year 8 students and their Learning Mentors, including the new School of Innovation Leader Rach, had the opportunity to have an educational session with one of the park Rangers to learn about water and how it affects our earth. The students were able to be introduced to Lizzie the Shingle-Back lizard and learn about her. The students were also given the opportunity to pat or hold Lizzie if they would like. The Year 8s were also introduced to another new friend, a Green Tree Frog. Unfortunately, due to the possibility of the frog absorbing harmful chemicals through hands, the Year 8s were not able to hold or pat the frog.
After the educational session, all Year 8s had the opportunity to look around the park.
We were able to see dingoes, kangaroos, native birds, koalas, wombats, emus, cassowaries, bats, flying foxes, native snakes, lizards and a new addition to the park, meerkats! The animals were all so interesting to observe through their habitats and through some walk-in enclosures. The students had some amazing opportunities to pat the emus and also interact and hang out with some of the birds in the aviary.
The Year 8s had an amazing time at Kyabram Fauna Park and enjoyed seeing all the animals at the park. We are so grateful to be able to have had the education session at the park. Thank you to those who looked after the Year 8s at the Fauna Park.
- Jorja Ford, Year 8, School of Innovation
Industry tour offers employment insights
Students who participate in the Ganbina program as part of their learning recently did an industry tour to explore employment opportunities and career pathways. While visiting Bunnings Shepparton, the students were given the opportunity to do some hands-on learning, participating in a toolbox-making workshop.
