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Ag Report

DAF HERMITAGE PLANT SCIENCE COMPETITION – PEST INVADERS

Year 9 Agriculture have been working hard all of term 2 to complete a series of scientific investigations and research tasks which they entered in the Hermitage Plant science awards.  They placed overall 2nd across Australia. Georgia Rhode represented the group at the award ceremony in Warwick recently. Georgia received a trophy and a digital Microscope on behalf of the group. Whilst at the Yangan research station Georgia toured the facility with some of our leading research scientists participating in several tasks related to plant breeding.

NORTHWEST LOCAL LAND SERVICES   PROPERTY PLANNING COMPETITION

Students in Year 10 Agriculture attended a field day hosted by Bald Blair Angus early in term 2.  From the field day they spent the rest of the term researching, planning and developing a consultants property plan for the host farm. 

Sam Graham, Lucy Barley, Jamie Jordan and Eliza Boland were announced champions at Ag Quip  and were presented with the perpetual shield and a very cool prize of a pair of fencing pliers in a hand made leather sheath engraved with their names.

Hain van Eyk, Erin Porter, Analiese Wark and Macey Clarke  were highly commended for their plan, also receiving the pliers as a prize.

These students are to be congratulated as they were the winners of the hermitage competition last year.

AG QUIP

22 students attended Ag QUIP recently  to support the year 10 students receiving their prizes.

Their challenge was to take a photo of the following

            1. A student with a cool piece of machinery

            2. Cutest animal

            3. Yummiest food

            4. Most unusual new word

            5. Most mathematical sign

  Below are some of their results.

Year 11 PDHPE

Yr 11 PDHPE at the UNE Sport and Exercise Science Lab testing V02max.

Well done Grayson!!! Thank you UNE

Year 10 Food Technology

Year 10 Food For Thought have been eggcited to get into the kitchen and start cooking. So far they have been cooking up an eggcellent storm. You should take notice on their ability to not crack under pressure when cooking poached eggs. I'm all out of egg puns for now.

Year 10 Food Tech students learning how to demonstrate spanakopita triangle folding to their classmates.

Design & Technology

Year 9 Design and Tech are working on designing and building clocks. How great is Joel’s ‘rockin’ clock!

Year 9 

Some of our Year 9 students helped at St Mary’s during book week. They had fun sharing stories with the Infant students.

Year 9 Food Technology

Year 9 Food Technology students gave a brief but edible lesson on some dates in Australian food history that influence our current cuisine and food habits.

Theatre Sports

Congratulations to Ethan Hinds, Sophie Troon, Molly Hardey and Amy Showell who participated in the improve workshop and theatre sports competition this weekend where they placed second.