Around The School

Superhero Day Thank You!

Careers Talk - Welding Industry

On Thursday 6 September students in Years 7 to 10 had the pleasure of hearing Mrs Hollie Currie talk. Mrs Currie is a qualified teacher who owns and runs a welding company with her husband. She discussed aspects of working on a construction site, emphasising the need for safety and how individual focus and professionalism impacts upon the business. This message will have been all the more poignant given the construction accident in Melbourne reported that night.

This was a much needed information session for all students wishing to pursue a career in any area associated with construction. Your behaviour and habits developed at school can and will impact upon your ability to secure and maintain employment. We thank Mrs Currie for graciously agreeing to talk to the students and the effort that she took in preparing for it. The event was thoroughly enjoyed by all (two students even moving further to the front midway through). Hopefully some students will take the message on board.

The careers team (Mrs Taylor, Mrs Tobler and Ms Targett) have organised a sequence of other speakers that will be visiting the school to discuss various other career paths. It is hoped that this will empower students with a greater understanding of what they need to do both now and in the future to achieve their potential in their chosen field.

Eggciting Times on the Ag Farm

Over the past few weeks students have been​ making some amazing egg discoveries in the chook house on the farm. Eggs of all sizes have been found. Our young Wyandotte pullets are starting to steadily lay small eggs, our Isa Browns are in full production and we have one suspect layer that is occasionally popping out some jumbo-sized eggs. Students suspected that the jumbo-sized egg would be a double-yolker and they were right! 

The following week after these three eggs were collected students found a very small egg in the nesting boxes. With the help of Mr Eastlake we were able to print a 3D version of this egg so that we could keep a replica of it once it was cracked. 

​Currently there are nine chickens in our Kindergarten room. These chicks were from eggs which were excess eggs, donated by the Nordstrom family so that we could give our new incubator a test run. Next term we will be hatching out some of our Rhode Island Reds which we hope to grow and prepare for the Sydney Royal Easter Show next year.