Events and Excursions

Plenty Kids Photo Days

Tuesday, 26 May - 3yo Joey

Wednesday, 27 May - 4yo Possum & Wallaby

Early Years Musical

Friday, 12 June @ 9:30am

Junior School Musical

Wednesday, 12 August and Thursday, 13 August

Year 10 Forensics Class – Visit to GTAC

Solving crimes is a painstaking and exact endeavour carried out by police forensics teams the world over.  This is something the Year 10 Forensics class came to appreciate in a very real way when they ventured to the Gene Technology Access Centre (GTAC) in Parkville to see how some of the techniques they have been discussing in class are combined with more advanced molecular and biochemical technologies to solve crimes. 

The class was broken up into four teams, each team being led by a PhD student mentor from one of the research institutes in the Parkville precinct, and asked to solve a crime based on a true event.  In order to do so, the students had to evaluate a plethora of evidence linked to the crime and begin eliminating the six suspects presented in the workshop until they felt they had enough evidence to obtain a “warrant” to interrogate one of the suspects.  The workshop was filled with rich tasks that required the students to build a case based on evidence collected from a range of scientific techniques that included DNA profiling, analysis of bone fragments, blood typing, fingerprint evaluation and toxicology testing just to name a few. 

The students relished the opportunity to apply these advanced scientific techniques under the guidance of their mentors and to utilise the scientific method with the evidence evaluation they carried out to help them solve the crime. So, who was the guilty party, I hear you ask?  You might have to follow this up with one of the students who participated in the workshop to find out.