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Caritas Just Leadership Workshop
On Friday 8 November Year 9 students Cara Fitzgerald, Maya Manaena, Amelia Howell, Mackenzie Kinghorn-Lewis and Hannah Munnings attended the Caritas Just Leadership workshop held at St Virgil's College, Austin's Ferry. The group participated alongside other aspiring leaders from various Catholic Colleges; getting to know one another and learning about the most pressing justice issues people face around the world. Student's identified the qualities embodied by religious and non-religious leaders who had worked to meet the needs of the poor. The students presented their findings to one another before breaking into school groups to plan a justice action for 2020.
'It was learning about important issues in the world. We learned about things I'd heard of before; the lack of housing, less access to water and lack of healthcare. The day just put these things into perspective for me.'- Mackenzie
'It made us more aware of what is going on and how different our lives are.' - Amelia
'I went home and I looked up some of the statistics for the issues we'd been shown and it was shocking to see facts. It made me feel very grateful for what I have.' - Hannah
Forensic Science discoveries
Year 9 Forensic Science students recently visited the Menzies Medical Research Centre. They were lucky enough to be taken on a tour of the centre and learn about the different work scientists undertake, from Alzheimer’s research to looking at the devil facial tumour. In the lab they looked at preserved body parts and common medical disorders, analysed DNA, did some pipetting and painted different skeletal bones.
Recycling bread tags
Junior School students have collected many plastic bread tags for the 'Bread Tags for Wheelchairs' initiative, a community program where individuals and organisations collect bread tags to be sold to plastics recycling companies (Australia's company of choice is Transmutation, located in South Australia).
Thank you to all students who have made an amazing contribution to recycling.
Ten Lives Cat Centre visitor
Year 7 Science were recently visited by Rose Bray from the Ten Lives Cat Centre as part of the Year 7 Ecology Unit. Students learnt about the role of the Cat Centre in looking after and de-sexing stray cats and also the impact of cats on Tasmanian animals. Students enjoyed the 'food web' activity and analysing the impact feral cats can have on native wildlife.
A new purpose for plastic
Envision Hands is a not-for-profit community initiative that uses 3D printing to turn plastic waste into mechanical hands and arms for kids, with the products being sent around the world.
A few weeks ago Senior School Homerooms were asked to collect bottle tops and there has been a huge response. The biggest pile so far is from Nagle 4, pictured below, who collected approx. 1,000 bottle tops. Well done everyone.
