Year 10 News

How Year Ten Conquered the Kokoda Trail

The mud, the rain, the tears, the toil. Year Ten students faced all this and more as they walked the entire length of the Kokoda Trail. That’s right they walked all 96 kilometres of it.

Actually, the Year Ten team walked one hundred kilometres because they took a detour to a dried up lake where, during World War 2 supplies were dropped for Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese.

Through the hot and humid days and the freezing cold nights, through the torrential rain, risking life and limb and at the mercy of any number of tropical diseases, a core select group of hardy students showed that they too can conquer the famous Kokoda Trail.

“When it wasn’t raining, it was raining,” said one student.

Not surprisingly, on their return both Tim Elliot and Lucas Simon said that the hardest part was the climbing. One climb was about three to four kilometres up a very steep mountain.

Brigade Hill and Isurava were two famous World War Two landmarks that the students got to explore. These two places are where Australian troops faced fierce opposition from Japanese soldiers.

“Isurava is where they hold the big Anzac Day commemoration,” said Tim Elliott.

Tim and Lucas said that eventually the Japanese withdrew their troops from Kokoda because they were needed elsewhere in the Pacific, where the Japanese were suffering heavy losses.

Students got to meet the residents along the Kokoda Trail because nearly every night they got to stay in a village. Even the potters were all local citizens of Papua New Guinea.

Year Tens Celebrate Excellence

A record number of Year ten student’s celebrated academic excellence at the end of term morning tea. The amount of students invited to the event was a credit to the hard work the year 10 students have put in to their academic performance over the course of 2019. We, as a year 10 team would, like to encourage the continuation of the hard work into term 4 and on throughout 2020.

How Are Year Ten Travelling

Below is a table showing the number of green posi-slips, minor infringements and major infringements:

	10A	10B	10D	10E	10F
Positive	23	36	47	39	33
Minor	11	24	3	17	5
Major	3	8	0	3	2

That is a grand total of 178 green posi-slips in the last fortnight. Only 60 minor infringements and even less (16) major infringements.

Keep up the good work Year Ten.

Year 10 celebration night.

The year 10 celebration night is all coming together with year 10 students getting everything organised. The event to celebrate all of positives that the students have accomplished this year will be held at the Maffra Football Netball rooms, from 7.00pm to 11.00pm on the 29th of November. The students have voted and booked a DJ for the night, a photo booth and Megan (year 10 admin) has agreed to help cook snack food for the event. (A big thankyou to Megan)

Permission forms will be sent home with all of the details.

Upcoming Exams

The year 10 team would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the upcoming exams. In year 10 student will sit a Math, English and Science exam. Students who are currently completing a year 11 subject will also sit an exam for this subject.

Exams can be a stressful time for students, if your child needs any extra support during this time please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Murphy or a member of the wellbeing team.

Daniel Murphy

Year 10 Leader