Year 10 Journalism

Year 10 Formal

The year 10 Formal of 2017 was a truly spectacular event; the night consisted of Glamour, Dancing, and Mingling.

Everyone looked amazing, and the love themed venue gave us a great opportunity to take pictures and enjoy precious time with our close friends. Overall, formal was really fun and everyone had a spectacular time, the only downside was the stone cold lemon tart that you had to pry open with a knife, but besides that, the night was as fun as it could possibly be! Thank you to all the teachers and formal organisers who put this amazing night together.

Flynn Lambeth 

Hockey Round Robin

Article of the Hockey Round Robin

Hayley Daws

Holocaust Excursion

by Skye Hagland

Lion Heart Dance 

Article on the Lion Heart Dance Excursion

Poppy O’Neill and Rachael Dunn

Holocaust Excursion

On the 4th of August a group of year 10s went on a English excursion to the Jewish holocaust centre in Elsternwick. My first opinions ads I walked in I was very open minded but very informed about what was the holocaust and what had happened during this terrible time in human history. As were the rest of the group but most distinctively most of us if not all of us had never met anyone who had experienced this terrible thing we had only just read about it.

The first thing that was on the agenda was a educational session with one of the educators from the centre. We got to watch a very interesting video about the holocaust featuring some sad but interesting pictures from this time it really put this in perspective and really changed the mood for me. From then on it was as if the mood went from a relaxed excursion to a downed mood for me.

The next thing on the agenda was a quick tour and look around there museum. This part for me was a very interesting part because we could ask more questions, and get more detail from our tour guides. My particular tour guide was very nice and good. He was very easy to talk to and ask questions to. He gave us really in depth talk about the concentration camps, where they were, what they looked like, the different types and more other things. He was such an interesting man and was very informed about it and learning about his family’s links with the holocaust.

The last thing for the day was a talk from a person which has been through the holocaust. He was amazing his story almost made me cry I’ll be honest myself not being a very emotional person. It was so easy to link with as he was almost identical in age to what I am and just even trying to imagine what it would be like trying to get through something like that at this age would be horrific and scaring for your whole life. It was very evident that this man was very angry still all these years later. But the most hard hitting thing that he said was “all these years later I can still not withstand the smell of barbecue” it was over 72 years ago and he can still not withstand that that’s how mentally scared this man is.

Cameron Radford