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VCAL

VMR Update

After a year of shifting soil, digging trenches, moving bricks, and building framework, the Maryborough replica station at VMR Harcourt is getting closer to completion. Students have worked consistently with local tradies through rain, hale and shine and are all feeling a great sense of achievement with their year’s work.

Spring has Sprung

The end of winter and start of spring always provides opportunities for VCAL students out in the garden. Ms Cooks herb garden in front of the foods room was well overdue for a revamp. A complete rebuild pulled sleeper walls down,  mixed manure into the soil, a watering system installed, and framework for shadecloth should have tasty herbs ready for picking in no time at all.

Steve Carroll

VCAL Teacher

VCAL - Tallulah Foley

Towards the end of 2018, we were coming up to exam week. This is where everything started to become really stressful for me and everyone else. I had my mind exploding with all the crazy study I had to do in the next few weeks. I’d never been so stressed in my life; staying up late making sure I didn't mess anything up not being able to focus at school due to not having enough sleep for days on end, working myself to my limits just so I could get a good score in each subject. Not too soon after that hell week I heard about a course within school called VCAL. I started to get more interested in this. VCAL seemed like it would really work for me compared to VCE. As it started to come to a blood boiling end, I finally moved  to VCAL which is based at the old senior campus. My first day of VCAL rolled around and I was pretty nervous because I had no idea who was going to be there. It took me a few weeks to get comfortable with all the students. VCAL helps you so much. 

This year in VCAL we had to pick a project we were going to work on throughout the year. This project could range from things we would do for our community or out of our school. A group of five girls: Asia May, Chantel Clark, Dayle Plumbridge, Tameika Fraser-Rowe and myself came up with the idea that we were going to base our project on the issue of homelessness. We started to brainstorm ideas about some fundraisers that would help us boost our idea. We came up with the idea of a sleepover at school. This sleepover was held a few months ago. We had a bonfire, talked about homelessness in our community and watched a movie called The Oasis, which gave us more of an insight into homelessness and how drug addiction can be a massive part of the problem.           

Haunted House

Thank you to all the students and staff who helped make the Halloween Haunted House a success. We had at least 50 children and their families come through and for many it was the first time they have visited CSC.

A very big thank you goes to Lilly Till and Brianna Opperman for all their hard work running the haunted house. 

Thanks also to all those students who created artwork and helped set up the space:

Zeon Kitchingman

Finn Spencer-Smith

Enoch White

Faith White

Sam Hough

Neroli O’Keefe

Chris Stanyer

Olivia Jane McCann

and all the other students of the CLS