Junior Secondary 

Lots of news from Year 7!

Burmese (Myanmar)/Chin Cultural Lesson

Student Reflections:

In the Burmese (Myanmar)/Chin cultural lesson we learnt about refugees and we heard from Miss Lily about her experience fleeing Burma. I learned about corridor countries like Malaysia which is a country refugees go to before they permanently move to safe countries like Australia. I also learned from a video about how a lot of people, especially children, have a protein deficiency because there is not enough meat and how the Chin state is against the current dictatorship.

Gabriel P

The Chin community

I have learned that the Chin community has faced extreme racism and had a pretty hard life growing up from their childhood to where they are at now. One thing that I am thinking about more is being more respectful to the Burmese people in our school community. People flee Myanmar and become refugees because there is a war in Myanmar called the Myanmar civil war. There is also something relatable to that war, which is fleeing for a safer and more loving community.

Josh J

Myanmar

We learnt about how people in Myanmar struggle to live in their country and they need to flee their country to live safely and harm free. One thing I’m thinking about more is that we need to be more grateful for things like clean water, fresh food, new clothes, shops and stable houses because people in the Chin state aren't able to have access to those things that we find normal. People flee Myanmar and become refugees because their country is unsafe to live and they get mistreated.

Courtney W

Marysville Excursion 

'To those who gave bravery, thoughtfulness, courage, love, help. Thank you’.

The words were engraved in the smoky metal in the garden commemorated for the Black Saturday bushfire of 2009. The garden, silent except for one voice ringing out, telling stories of the past impacting the present. Bronwyn, our tour guide, sharing experiences of her community and what they faced. There was a great pain that impacted the whole community, together they rebuilt their lives. Marysville is a town that has been hurt to the core, but has managed to piece together their broken pieces. Their lives never the same. 'Regrowth, renewal, united.'

Olivia P

Marysville Poem - The Memorial

Say my name,

Like the household word it always was,

We both know life won't be the same,

Say it gets better but it never really does,

The flames scarred your eyes,

The smoke infests your life,

When you think too hard it starts to hurt,

You wish the past was just a blur,

No-one can escape their fate,

But death is just as bad as hate.

Asher C

Marysville was a great experience. The talk that Bronwyn gave was engaging and it made me feel like I was close to some of the people that lost their lives. The native life and vegetation was amazing. It grew back so quickly and was very relaxing to see. The bike sculptures that were at nearly every shop were very cool too. We went to the playground and the lolly shop and had lots of fun as well.

Courtney W

Marysville, a place that got wiped out in the Black Saturday bushfires. On 6 June all the Year 7s got to go and learn everything we wanted to know about Marysville’s experience in the fires. We got split into class groups and all headed off to different activities. Our class first went to the lolly shop. The boys went in first and then the girls (it was like heaven in there, with all those lollies). When we left, we all went around looking for animal sculptures that people made in honour of all the people that died in the fires. After we did that, we all did a nature walk through the forest. It was kind of cool (uh, yeah, it was fun, heh heh) then we all went to a skate park. Even though we didn’t have any skateboards or bikes we still ran around and had fun. Then we all hung out at the playground. When that was all done, we had a guide tell us more about the fires. And we were lucky enough to have a woman who had experienced the fires tell us about her experiences!

Julius W

Marysville Reflection by Zoe K

Space Dome

On Friday 7 June all the Year 7 classes 7A, 7B and 7C all went in class groups and did a space dome incursion to learn about how eclipses are created. We did this incursion in the gym, Nick was the guy who did this whole presentation and he did it so well. It was amazing to learn about all of the different facts about how our solar system works. We were all so intrigued by the whole presentation.

Mia

As I entered the dark space, I thought, how amazing could this be? It was more amazing than I could have imagined! We learnt about how the moon affects the tides and how we see the moon in different places. The sun is so amazing! I never realised how many waves of light there are! Some of them are harmful but our amazing atmosphere stops those light waves but lets the good ones in. Kind of like a private party! We also learnt about how rare an eclipse really is! Did you know that the moon can be the key to planet finding? It is so cool. I hope that we can do it again. That will be one of my highlights of Year 7. 

Jasmine K

I enjoyed the 3D aspect because it surrounded you with pictures of space and the universe.

Olivia

I enjoyed the 3D part of it because I liked how it looked like it was going to hit me.

Jonah

While I was in the space dome, I enjoyed having an easy visual of the rotations and orbits of the Sun, Earth and Moon. It was easy to focus and the area was really enjoyable.

Ashton

I enjoyed how I felt part of it because of how it surrounded me and that helped me understand it more.

Lily

In this incredible experience I learnt how we got day light savings because of the suns position in the sky.

Emily

I learnt that the moon has very unpredictable weather because it has a very thin atmosphere so the best base camp for astronauts would be near the pole.

Isabel