Middle School

1000 STEPS CONQUERED!

Year 5/6 Boys Health Excursion

Ben Sheahan

Year 6 Teacher

ECO CHALLENGE

Over three days towards the end of Term 3, a group of Year 7 and 8 students were invited to take part in the UNEP-DHI Eco Challenge, run by Curtin University in Western Australia. 

The challenge involves playing an online game on water sustainability which runs worldwide and includes secondary and tertiary participants. Students are only allowed to play the game on three pre-assigned days. The Challenge runs from April to the end of November.

At this stage, the leaderboard is topped both in Australia and globally by our own Joshua O’Donnell (Year 7). He is followed closely by Matthew Baker (Year 7) and Cyrus Ting (Year 7).

As the competition runs until the end of November, the leaderboard might still change, but we are hoping for Joshua to keep that top position. Well done, Josh – we are all behind you!

Christa Cloete

Year 7/8 Coordinator

MY LIFE IN ONE WORD

In the Year 7 English class, students who complete their work efficiently before the rest of the class are given extension projects to work on. One challenge that was put to them, was to decide on a word that describes their life, and then write an essay explaining why they chose that specific word. Below is an example of a well-written extension essay. Enjoy reading about the word “bumpy”!

The word that describes my life is” bumpy” because of these three reasons: My life goes up and down, “life is like a road; it has bumps, cracks and obstacles, but in the end it gets you somewhere” and “the bumps in life make up who you are.”

#1 The word that describes my life is “bumpy” because my life goes up and down. For example: my life was going all fine when one night my dad got a phone call saying that my grandpa had to be airlifted to hospital and later on became a quadriplegic. The definition for “bumpy” is “involving sudden jolts and jerks”. That experience was like I was jerked out of happiness and plunged into sorrow. But then I was jerked right back out of sorrow back into happiness when my grandparents came to live with me and my family, and we were able to take care of him.

#2 The word that describes my life is “bumpy” because “life is like a road; it has bumps, cracks and obstacles, but in the end it gets you somewhere.” This quote describes everyone’s life. The bumps, cracks and obstacles are the hardships you go through; anxiety, depression, anger, sadness, broken-heartedness, loneliness. But just like the quote says, in the end the road gets you somewhere, possibly somewhere good.

#3 The word that describes my life is “bumpy” because “the bumps in life make up who you are.” This quote means that all the hardships you go through, everything you struggle with, builds up who you are in the end. The hardships help you learn for next time so you don’t make that same mistake, help you understand things, and make YOU a stronger person.

The word that describes my life is “bumpy” because of these three reasons: My life goes up and down, “life is like a road; it has bumps, cracks and obstacles, but in the end it gets you somewhere” and “the bumps in life make up who you are.”

By Kate Courtis

Christa Cloete

Year 7/8 Coordinator