Middle School

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• Tales from 7D (Mrs Davis)
• Write a Book in Day Competition 

Tales from 7D

This term has been full and wonderful as our 7D superstars settle into their Middle School journey. Students in 7D aim to be involved in Middle School. The students have enjoyed celebrating Book Week, Science Week, Boys and Girls Connections, MS Soccer challenges and much more! By creating a sense of community, students feel connected and build wider relationships with teachers, Wellbeing staff and other year levels. Some of our highlights have included achieving second place in the Book Week challenges and first place in the Year 7 group for Science week.

Science Week

"I enjoyed doing the Science quizzes every morning and rushed to class to complete these. I like the different categories of Science and the possibilities are endless. I really enjoy Biology and Chemistry." - Ziyang

Olivia, Skylah, Jayden and Winston enjoying the Science Week escape rooms

Book Week

"I enjoyed Book Week because everybody dressed up and it showed our school community coming together and bringing joy to each other. I love reading because it brings a sense of excitement and adventure. I dressed up as Matilda because she likes reading as well"  Raizel 

Our 7D ‘Care Bears’ who received an honourable mention. Matilda and Miss Honey enjoying the day.

Creating our Book Week Door with the theme Bookworms and Sports Stars:

Christian Studies:

In Christian Studies, 7D has been working through the book of James. Our class is working towards learning and growing in our walk with God and our relationships with others. The Holy Spirit has shown us many enlightening topics in this study and we have had many interesting discussions around:

• Joy in trials (Chapter 1)
• Faith in action (Chapter 2)
• Taming the tongue (Chapter 3)
• Submitting ourselves to God (Chapter 4) and 
• Patience in suffering (Chapter 5)

Students particularly enjoyed talking about what is the most powerful part of our bodies and we had a lively debate about whether it was the tongue or the mind, eventually settling that the two are very much connected. We discussed that by using our tongues and minds to encourage others, speak kind words and show love and care to others, we can model God’s character and we have seen this in action within our 7D Home Group. We are currently working on posters to present to the class at the end of Term 3 to show what key areas in the book of James were important to us.  

"In Christian Studies we’ve enjoyed learning about God with classmates and having interesting discussions about the book of James. We’ve learnt about submitting ourselves to God and controlling our tongue and our mind, learning about God’s word and applying it to our lives. We like reading about the guidance He gives us to be more like Him in His earthly Kingdom." - Jayden and Ayo

Kerry Davis

Year 7 Teacher

Write a Book in a Day competition

In week 7, 20 aspiring authors and illustrators from Years 8 to 11, sharpened their pencils and headed to the State Library to enter the national Write a Book in a Day competition. The rules were simple. 

Your story must:

• Be based on the secret prompt given to your team on the bus that morning
• Be more than 6000 words long. Yes - 6000 words.
• Be your own work with no outside help
• Be finished and submitted within 9 and a half hours.

Ready, set, go! It was amazing to see the focus, creativity, collaboration as our two teams of ten scrambled to get their stories finished, illustrated and submitted within just nine and a half hours. The students’ different gifts came to the fore as they brainstormed, designed setting and characters, outlined plots, drafted, edited and occasionally rewrote chapters, checked for spelling and accuracy, painted, illustrated and encouraged each other through the highs and lows. It was all very inspiring to see.

The result was two fantastic, complete books which have been submitted to be judged alongside entries from all over the country. The Write a Book in a Day competition also raises money for the Kids Cancer Project. 

If your child was one of our writers this year, please speak to them for details about how you can contribute to this worthy cause.