Other School News
Chinese Reading Competition Second Place Winner
Raksa Lim (9A)
Our own Raksa Lim won second place in this year's CLTAV Chinese Reading Award!
The reading award was held Friday, September 10 online via Zoom meeting. There were 80 participants coming from 27 secondary colleges around Melbourne. It was quite competitive!
We had Anha Dechah, Thanh Nguyen and Raksa Lim competing and their performances on that day were all amazing! Their positive attitude to take up a challenge and give it a go is worth celebrating!
Well done Anha, Thanh and Raksa! Proud of you guys!
Ms Summer Bao
LOTE Coordinator & Teacher
Numeracy week celebrations in Term 4 Week 1!
The first week back from remote learning in Term 4, was numeracy week. We celebrated numeracy with a range of activities such as daily fun facts and trivia questions as well as lunchtime online competitions involving pi memorisation, kahoot, bingo and game of 24. A big congratulations for the following winners based on the winning categories:
Monineath Seang 10A – Monday Numeracy Trivia Question, 2nd place pi challenge (14 decimal places), 2nd place Kahoot Numeracy .
Tim Warden – Monday, Wednesday and Friday Numeracy Trivia Question.
Victoria Puia 11A – Wednesday and Thursday Numeracy Trivia Question, 1st place Kahoot Numeracy.
Sevleng Chan 9B – 1st place pi challenge (19 decimal places).
Valentina Huynh 7A – Tuesday Numeracy Trivia Question.
Kevin Phan – Tuesday Numeracy Trivia Question.
Mark Henderson – 3rd place in Kahoot Numeracy .
Jenny Phillips – Thursday Numeracy Trivia Question.
Taylor Lonnie 10B – Winner of Numeracy Bingo.
Zeyi Gao 10D – 1st place in Game of 24
Somchai Somchai 7B – 2nd place in Game of 24.
Also, a big thanks to Ms Jing Weng, Ms Naomi Walkley, Ms Jessie Li and Ms Lucy Chieng for helping run these activities. Each winner received a certificate and prize!
Ms Loan Luong
Learning Specialist: Numeracy & STEM
& Mr Andy Tran
Mathematics Coordinator
Library News
Ms Sue Stenning
Librarian & Legal Studies Teacher
Science Week 2021
The theme for this year’s science week was “Food: different by design”! We had a variety of lunch-time activities such as preparing and testing purple cabbage indicators on different food types, crickets/meal worm tasting, vegan sausage rolls, making herb pots and corn tasting. Initially, some of our students & staff were apprehensive at the bug tasting but eventually gave it a go. The overall verdict was “this doesn’t taste too bad!” During science lessons, students tried potato and corn chips and discussed the issues involved with genetically modified food.
A big THANK YOU to our amazing Laboratory technician Ms Jennifer Phillips for organising all the food for science week and our wonderful science team for helping with the activities.
Ms Loan Luong
Learning Specialist: Numeracy & STEM
& Ms Smrithi Buyya
Science Coordinator
Literacy Week
At the end of Term 3 we celebrated Literacy Week at Westall. Student leaders and staff hosted a wide variety of online activities, competitions and workshops that highlightedthe value, importance and fun of reading and writing.
We hosted a daily anagram challenged based on jargon from each of the domains, had students create their own six-word stories and write poems, and had fun pronouncing challenging words!
Thank you to all the students and staff who got involved and had some fun. We’ve included the winning six-word stories and poems below!
Miss Anna Papagiannopoulos
English Assistant Coordinator
& Miss Rebecca Tomkins
Year 8 Coordinator
SIX WORD STORIES
I tried. I failed. I'm sorry.
Rasheedah, Year 7
"Love you," that's all she said.
Akhilesh, Year 12
POEMS
| Slowly, my work piles up. |
| Slowly, the time was up. |
| Slowly, the night falls. |
| Slowly, the sun is tall. |
| Slowly, my class starts. |
| Slowly, I fall asleep with the mumble of my heart. |
Monineath Seang, Year 10
| Once more I would like to visit my childhood, |
| Once more I would like to relive my memories, |
| Once more I would like to be in my mothers arm, |
| Once more I would like to play with my father, |
| Once more I would like to be a kid in horizon, |
| Once more I would like to dream these dreams, even though I know that it is just a dream. |
Joe Bonnyjose, Year 10
| Sadly, I’m all alone. |
| Sadly, my happiness is blown. |
| Sadly, you left me here. |
| Sadly, I shed many tears. |
| Sadly, I will live with this despair. |
| Sadly, life is so unfair. |
Sevleng Chan, Year 9
In2Science School Engagement Nominee for 2021
We had the opportunity this year to have In2Science mentors from Swinburne University to inspire and support our students from Year 7-10, in Maths and Science as well as the electives. Many of our Maths and Science classes received additional support from our mentors, and our students had the opportunity to ask questions about the mentor’s past and present educational experience, as well as life experience. The relationships that developed between the mentors and students has been fulfilling. It is an honour for Westall Secondary College to be nominated for the In2Science School Engagement award for 2021!
Ms Loan Luong
Learning Specialist: Numeracy & STEM