Department News

HSIE Department

To the Brigidine Community,

Welcome back to the College for our exciting final chapter of 2023. First and foremost, on behalf of the HSIE department I would like to wish our year 12 students the very best for their HSC exams, we have no doubt that the hard work, perseverance and practice will pay off over the coming weeks.

Term 4 also sees us welcome the Year 12 class of 2024. We are all excited to begin our HSC course proper, and look forward to the first round of assessments towards the end of term.

This Term in Years 7-10 we look forward to our students undertaking the following topics in Geography/History:

Year 7 - Interconnections

Year 8 - Japan under the Shoguns

Year 9 - Environmental change and management

Year 10 - Popular Culture & Australia in the Vietnam War

As our final assessments approach a reminder to please use the assessment notifications for suggestions on how best to prepare for each task. 

To all of our HSIE students - all the best for your final tasks and the remainder of the term!

Kind Regards,

David Martin

Head of HSIE

Mathematics Department

The Australia Mathematics Competition (AMC) is Australia’s longest-running and most well-respected mathematics competition, which has engaged generations of Australian primary and secondary students in the joy of mathematical problem-solving. In term 3, on Thursday the 3rd of August, our Year 7 to 10 Mathematics Gifted classes participated in the AMC. 

The AMC is a 60 – 75-minute problem-solving competition. The competition includes 30 unique problems that are designed by leading educators and academics to challenge and engage students’ mathematical problem-solving skills.

Questions are drawn from the core curriculum area including:

• Basic arithmetic
• Fractions and ratios
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Statistics and probability
• Problem-solving

All of our Gifted maths students conducted themselves very well and attempted all of the questions to the best of their ability. 

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following students who received either a Credit or Distinction Certificate.

Year 7 Certificate of Credit goes to:

Georgia Coure

Zoe Csutoras

Sienna Diaz

Gracie Gilham

Brianna Joel

Zara Kauter

Lulu Miller

Amelia Thompson

Lara de Vries

Year 7 Certificate of Distinction goes to:

Leora Fensom

Year 8 Certificate of Credit goes to:

Jordana Agus

Leah Andrews

Zari Boyd

Claire Campbell

Talia Dametto

Nandana Dayal

Hayley Higginson

Sienna Knight

Chloe Lee

Isabelle Tao

Ashley Thamrin

Abby Widjaja

Olivia Woznica

Year 8 Certificate of Distinction goes to:

Rachel Guan

Year 9 Certificate of Credit goes to:

Victoria Campbell

Anastasia Dudek

Teagan Webber

(Unfortunately, there were a number of Year 9 Gifted students who missed the AMC due to the Duke of Edinburgh camp)

Year 10 Certificate of Credit goes to:

Lea Avdishov

Lily Caddle

Sophie Carter

Zoe Delavande Vasconcelos

Isla Dindial

Vy Doan

Alicia Gunawan

Michelle Mansour

Leti Munoz

Ella O’Rourke

Bianca Smith

Year 10 Certificate of Distinction goes to:

Emma Vecchiet

The Best In School Certificate goes to Rachel Guan.

We would like to thank Ms Lorraine Spillane for the initiative and the organisation of the AMC.

Maya Mabey     &        Gus Lyon 

Head of                         Assistant Head of          

Mathematics              Mathematics 

TAS & VET Department

Welcome back to another term of design, innovation, problem-solving, engineering, coding, cooking, laser cutting, directing, marketing and endless creativity! We are excited to engage our students back in the world of Technologies at Brigidine for Term 4, 2023.

Term 3 brought with it many exciting events, from Year 12 Design & Technology Major projects being marked, to Year 11 Hospitality Work Placement. Let’s look back at Term 3!

Stage 4 Technology

Year 7 students have been busy creating prototypes for their wind spinners using paper, blu-tack and pins. Through investigating the principles of engineering and learning to use Adobe Illustrator, they will now turn their design ideas into functioning timber wind spinners. 

Year 8 students have been working hard on their robot unicorns, from adding colourful decorations to finalising the coding for their micro:bits. It has been a fun-filled process. 

Stage 5 Design & Technology

Year 9 Design & Technology have been creating their own mini businesses for the MYOB unit this semester. Students have produced some innovative products such as natural bath soaps, scented candles and fabric makeup bags. The next challenge for these students is to mass produce 20 of their selected products as a group and sell these at the annual TAS Market Day being held in November. Students will mass produce, package, advertise and sell their products to hopefully raise a profit which will be donated to a chosen charity.

Stage 5 Food Technology

Year 9 Food Technology students have been busy working on a fun-filled food design task where they were given the challenge to develop their very own creative movie snacks. Some wonderful combinations have been created!!

Year 12 Food Technology & Design & Technology

Term 3 was a very exciting time for our Year 12 elective students. It was the completion of  Major Design Projects and time to wrap up all course requirements before the HSC examinations began. Our Design students have worked tremendously hard to finalise their projects and have these marked and displayed at the Year 12 Showcase evening back in term 3. Student projects displayed an enormous amount of creativity and innovation and we applaud each and every student on the completion of their MDP.

 We wish each and every one of our Year 12 elective students all the very best in their examinations and future endeavours.

Year 11 Hospitality

Hospitality students completed their first Work Placement experience at the beginning of term 3. These hours are a necessary component of their course and provide practical real-life experiences. Valued partnerships with industry, assists students in reinforcing theory concepts learned in class and allows the students to gain relevant examples and terminology for their competency tasks and the HSC examination. 

Congratulations to Angelina Papayianakis in Year 11 Hospitality who has been nominated for a Student Excellence Award with SCS. We are very proud of you!

Year 12 Hospitality

Congratulations to Charlize Ashby placed in the top 3 finalists in the NSW Training Awards VET in Schools Student of the Year while undertaking her Hospitality course. The awards provide a unique opportunity to celebrate the hard work and achievements of students. 

Kylie Little & Alethea Oliver

TAS & VET Coordinators