Junior School News

MATHS HELP:

Maths Help session is run on Friday lunchtime in G10.  Students from all the year levels are welcome.

Harry Singh - Maths Teacher

YEAR 7/8 HUMANITIES:

YEAR 8 HUMANITIES

Students in Year 8 have been working well on their assessment task about Rainforests. They researched both the Amazon and Australia's own Daintree and then presented their learning in a number of ways including the creation of some excellent Rainforest dioramas.

YEAR 7 HUMANITIES

Meanwhile in Year 7A, students were inspired by the work the Year 8's had done, and chose to also complete dioramas about Ancient Egypt.

Miss Annette Gould - Humanities Teacher

Year 9 Dookie Camp

On Wednesday 30th Of May, seventeen Year 9 students and three staff caught a bus out to Dookie Agricultural College to participate in a three day program. The camp was largely funded by the University of Melbourne, and the Lighthouse Project, to provide rural students with a range of experiences in the field of agriculture.

On the first day of activities, students were involved in lectures on plant science, meat science and an Amazing Race around the Dookie campus. Students were given a map, and a list of clues, to discover and complete tasks that got them to explore their surroundings.

On the second day of activities, students walked Mount Major. The view was described as spectacular, and showed students a second perspective to the world around them. Later on in the day, students were introduced to Smell Detection Dogs. This was an interesting insight into the senses a dog has and the amazing things they can do with them.  Students listened to a lecture given by a sheep shearer about the different kinds of sheep around Australia. After this, students watched a live sheep shearing in the shearing shed on Dookie campus. Before dinner, students were shown a $97,000 drone. It flew high above them before landing, taking photographs from the air. After dinner some students came back to school to participate in the MSC music concert. While the other students were away, the remaining students took turns at each table talking and meeting men and women who have careers in Agriculture. It was really, really interesting!!  We got to learn about the type of lifestyle people with agricultural careers have as they work on the land.

Day three was a quick one.. but before leaving, the students were shown the automatic dairy farm, meeting and patting calves while being shown the amazing and innovative systems. Students then returned to their homes and families with amazing memories to last a life time.

Thanks to Lachlan Sykes for attending camp as one of MSC’s Year 11 School Leaders, and for helping out the students as they experienced a range of activities.     Caitlyn Glasson - Year 9 Newsletter Author