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TREE Celebration of Learning
On 17th November (5.30-7.30pm) TREE will have its Celebration of Learning for 2018. This night will showcase all of the TREE projects from K-12, our Co-curricular Enterprise Team, our Co-curricular Cattle and Sheep Teams and our Internship Program. We hope you can join us.
Scone Beef Bonanza
On Thursday 25th October 4 students (Hugo Bartlett, Hamish Macdougall, Lachlan Ferguson and Taylah Hobbs) travelled to Scone with 3 steers and 1 heifer to compete in the Scone Beef Bonanza with over 1000 school students from NSW and QLD. This 3-day event included cattle classes, paraders, junior judging and ICMJ meat judging.
Friday started with all students participating in beef industry focused workshops including; structure, preparation, photography, steer assessment and auctions plus. That afternoon Hugo, Hamish and Lachlan went to JBS meat processors to participate in the ICMJ meat judging competition while Taylah attended a meat judging workshop back at the show.
Saturday was an early start to prepare cattle for their classes, the Kinross team were extremely successful with the heifer Bloom (led by Taylah) placing 3rd in her weight class, the 3 steers all competed in the heavy weight section with Barry (led by Lachlan) placing 4th, Brent (led by Hamish) and Buster (led by Hugo) receiving a highly commended. Barry was also awarded the heaviest steer in the competition weighing in at a massive 762kg!!
Saturday afternoon saw Taylah compete in the paraders competition where judges look for a combination of preparation, showmanship and presentation. Taylah competed against over 180 competitors and was successful in being awarded Under 13 Champion Parader! Saturday afternoon the cattle team was invited to check out the unled cattle at the Scone saleyards for judging – this was a great opportunity to judge commercial steers alongside the professional judge for the competition.
All students competed in Junior Judging competition on Sunday morning to identify and class animals according to their genetic potential as breeding stock. This was a tough competition but a great experience for all participants. Junior Judging was followed by the paraders competition for Hamish, Hugo and Lachlan. The students faced fierce competition from some very experienced paraders, however all 3 students did a fantastic job and were well presented. Congratulations to Hamish for placing 4th and Lachlan for placing 6th in their classes. The cattle have now been sent to JBS for carcase judging, these results of which will come through towards the end of the week.
Overall this was a very successful weekend and all of the students should be very proud of how they presented themselves, their school and their cattle.
TREEnglish
Our Year 9 TREEnglish unit finished at the end of Term 3 with the students producing some powerful and imaginative magazine articles, Ted-Ed talks and documentaries regarding sustainability in their chosen context (viticulture, paddock to plate, Orange360, regional wellbeing or agri-innovation). Below are Grace Birmili’s documentary and Abbey Thyrwitt’s Ted-Ed talks. To see more, come along to the Celebration of Learning to hear from the students presenting their work.
Co-curricular Enterprise Team
Our newly formed co-curricular TREE Team has begun in earnest. On the first Sunday of the term, our students ventured into school to work with Stefan Birmili from Cured (small goods store opposite Harris Farm). Stefan taught the students how to bone out their pork (having reared the animals throughout the year) and worked with the students to make 50kg of pork and fennel sausages. Some of these were cryo-vacuumed with the help of Mr Callaghan and others left in catering bags for events throughout the term. Stefan also helped the students to brine 10 sides of bacon in preparation for smoking and slicing. The sausages were offered, together with homemade biscotti, at the Australian National Field Days where KWS showcased our TREE program.
Come along to the Prep School Open Day to taste them for yourself!
Archibull
Our Archibull submission has progressed to the next round, with guest judges to visit the school this Friday. We are also in the running for the People’s Choice Award.
To enter your vote, visit https://bit.ly/2PEBVxw
Foodcare
TREE continues to passionately support Foodcare in Orange, https://www.foodcareorange.org.au This Monday, Foodcare held a showing of the movie ‘Foodfighter’ which gave a behind the scenes view of Ronni Khan and her mission (through her charity Oz Harvest) to reduce food waste in Australia. Ten representatives from boarding and the student representative council came along, together with five members of staff, to think about what KWS to contribute.
Mr Tom Riley
Director of TREE