Secondary News
Year 8 Ag Tech Harvest
In Year 8 Agricultural Technology students have been learning to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs. Students have been tending to their garden each week, watering, weeding and checking for pests. Over the past two terms students had to select appropriate plants that would grow during the colder months of Autumn and Winter and pick vegetables and fruits they would eat or like to see how they grow.
Students selected a wide range of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers to grow in their plot. Potatoes, broccoli, beans, snow peas, spring onions, mint, basil, poppies, cosmos and strawberries just to name a few. Students needed to reersach the selected plants' growing conditions and time till harvest to ensure they would grow in the allocated time. During class students would check the plot to ensure their plants were growing strong and healthy. Student ts conducted routine operations such as watering, weeding, mulching and checking for pests. Students learnt to use the appropriate tools and select the appropriate PPE for each of these tasks.
Before the Winter holidays students took photos of their garden to compare when they arrived back in Term 3. Students were keen to see how their vegetables had grown over the holidays and happy to find they had multiple vegetables, fruits and herbs to harvest and take home and share with their families.
A class cookbook is in the works for students to share with their families the wonderful recipes that they can cook using the fresh produce from the garden.
Careers Expo Year 10
On Wednesday 31 July, seven Year 10 students attended the Moree Careers Expo at Moree Secondary College. Throughout the morning, students were able to engage in workshops and discussions with various industry professionals from a variety of companies about pathways for traineeships, apprenticeships and job opportunities; speak with tertiary institutions and organisations regarding education pathways beyond Year 12; and gain an understanding of opportunities available to rural and remote students when moving into career pathways beyond school.
Students gathered a wealth of information and resources from more than thirty stalls, and enjoyed the time communicating with students from other secondary schools in Moree. From the Careers Expo, students have now built on their understanding of a variety of career opportunities on offer and ways in which they can access further information about future pathways.
Bike Repair Class
