Year 9 News

Welcome back to Term 3. I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays but more importantly, it is great to see all students settling back into the classroom ready for another exciting Term. 

Your Year 9 Team

Ross Johnson: Year 9 Team Leader

Denise Cairnduff: Disability Inclusion Specialist

Shawn Jordan: Art Teacher

Tyron Forscutt: Health & Physical Education Teacher

Shannon Heiberg: Math & Science Teacher 

Nia Whitney: Humanities Teacher

Emma Hudson: Advocate & Drama Teacher

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)

We will continue to acknowledge and reward students for their positive behaviours and will no doubt flood your phones with Kurnai Positive Acknowledgements (KPAs). On that note, it has been fantastic to see students settle back into the Kurnai Learning Community and being acknowledged with KPAs for their positive behaviours in the classroom. 

KPA Data Term 3 Weeks 1-2

9A - 211

9B - 98

9C - 114

9D - 80

Top 10 KPA receivers for Term 3 Week 1-2

Attendance

This year our aim is to improve student attendance rates to an above 95% average. If you student is absent, please contact Kurnai’s absence hotline on 5132 3711, or contact Ross Johnson directly via Compass. 

Attendance Average per Form Group

9A - 84%

9B - 74%

9C - 73%

9D – 79%

Learning Behaviour Updates

LBU’s will be released in week 5 of this term. I encourage you to sit down with your child and review their progress and continue to set goals to help them achieve their own academic success.

Year 9 Melbourne Discovery Camp

This week 60 students have travelled to the City for their Melbourne Discovery camp. 

Monday:

Students departed from Morwell station bright and early and headed to the city. Once in the city they settled into their accommodation on South Yarra before heading out to explore the street art on Hoiser Lane before heading to ACMI to view the national museum of screen culture.

Tuesday

On Tuesday students headed to the Art Centre to complete a workshop where the students learnt how to create online music and the history of music.  From there students explored Southbank before heading to the Docklands to explore the 3D art at ARTVO and Ice Skating at O’Briens Ice House. 

Wednesday

After a few bruised ego’s from Tuesday’s night Ice Skating, students headed to the Melbourne Zoo for a self guided tour, before having an afternoon tea on the Melbourne River Cruise and settling in for the sunset at Eureka Skydeck.

Around the classrooms

Science:

We have stared learning about Biology, exploring Neurons. We have completed a practical experiment to see how fast your brain can react in different situations.

Jett Clarkson 9B

English

This term we have started analysing different texts and exploring different language features.

Liliana Szpura 9A

Media Studies

We have watched “Get Out” and have started looking at different tones, meanings and hidden features of the movie.

Rhiannon Green 9A

Contact Details 

If you have any concerns regarding your Year 9 student, please don’t hesitate to email me Ross.Johnson@kurnaicollege.vic.edu.au or phone me on 5165 0600.

Ross Johnson

Year 9 Team Leader