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SRC News

The SRC has been busy working to plan and promote a Whole Junior School spelling bee which will take place in early Term 4. Representatives from each class will compete

in a competition to discover the strongest speller in the Junior School. Thank you to Ms Maniatis for helping our team prepare this exciting upcoming event. 

Gemma Fisher

Student Voice Coordinator 

Science Week Planting

Now that spring is here, students from 7F planted the sunflowers (and beans and parrot food) that grew in the mini hothouses they made during science week.

Peter Bales

Lab Technician

Netball Tournament 

Term 3 saw the return of GEC’s popular netball tournament. This year we split the tournament into junior and senior cups, with two rounds and then knockout. The junior cup was won by The Geckos, 8-5 against The Legends. The senior cup was won by the Heat is on, 17-13 against Issy’s Invincibles.

Thank you to all teams who participated and all students and staff who helped to make this tournament a success. 

Nicola Angus

Health & PE Learning Area Leader

Teenage Issues - Excursion to Road to Zero 

On Thursday 24th August, the Year 10 Teenage Issues class went into the city to visit the TAC’s Road To Zero, road safety campaign. This exhibition is a permanent part of the Melbourne Museum and seeing as though our class’s current topic is regarding road safety, it was only fitting that we visited. 

The exhibition consisted of two parts, in the first, my classmates and I were initially greeted by a lovely road safety expert who informed us of some background information concerning the purpose of the exhibition and also explained the goal of attempting to have zero road crashes resulting in injury or death. Then we proceeded into a section where we were able to take part in many varied interactive activities informing us of various statistics or safety features in place to protect those around us, some of these experiences included: interactive quizzes, simulations and even Virtual Reality. 

In the second part of the exhibition we were separated into groups and got to make our very own road safety advertisement using an interactive table and a selection of video clips, music and statistics, we also created our very own slogans! Overall, this was an amazing and informative experience that I’m sure others will agree was worth it!

Olivia Millar 10D