Year 9 News

Meaningful Ad Campaign Art

Year 9 project students have been working on brainstorming issues, designing, and then creating art around a meaningful visual campaign on either the cause, affect or action someone can do about one issue affecting the world. 

Students have spent a significant amount of time and energy to create complex and layered messages in a visually engaging artwork. 

See the Year 10 News page for some more Year 9 art displays.

Tech School Excursion

Students recently attended the Tech School in Morwell to investigate Electronics, with the brief of ‘understanding of the relationship between amps, volts and resistance and how they interact within a circuit’ as part of this term’s Science curriculum. The mood was set for a fun day with some willing volunteer actors pretending to be various parts of a circuit to ‘see’ what happened under different conditions. Throughout the day, students worked together in small teams undertaking various investigations. Students used a web-base computer aided design program (TinkerCAD) to investigate basic circuitry and then used microcontrollers to create a motion sensor. The surprise and delight on students’ faces when “It works!” was evidence that they can do things when they put their minds to it. Students designed and created a circuit that helps the hard-of-hearing to identify a sound by using a light signal. Students also designed a fun marble mini-golf game, with circuits used to light up the course depending on where their marble was and other surprises they designed into their course. Finally, in teams, they applied their prior knowledge and the skills acquired from the day for a ‘real world’ task, reporting back to the group on their design. Thank you to all involved for a great day.