Student activities & excursions
ACMI Excursion
On the 16th of May a group of students from Orange and Blue Group went on excursion to ACMI (The Australian Centre of the Moving Image). After catching the train from South Morang to Flinders Street Station, we walked across to the museum at Federation Square.
We saw the exhibit called the “Story of the Moving Image” which runs daily at ACMI, this exhibit has some great artefacts from the history of storytelling, film, TV and computer games from different cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands.
Some of our favourite exhibits are described by the students below.
While at ACMI we were all given little cardboard discs that we can tap to store information about the exhibits. Once we were done, we could come back to school and do some research on the things we looked at. They all had a different code on the back so you could see what you tapped.
At ACMI there is an area of the space put aside for video games. There are game controllers of all kinds from all different years, lining the wall. This is around a display of games that you can play. They have both old and new games, including PacMan arcade machines. They have a bench in the middle of the room with six newer games you can demo. Included in these games, are Limbo (2010), The Gardens Between (2018), and The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited (2019). My favourite of these games was The Gardens Between, because I find its visual style appealing.
The ACMI project introduced this stop motion ‘Cuphead’ carousel, that showed people from the hit run and gun game. Such as King dice, the Devil, Mugman, Chalice and the main character Cuphead. All on a platform in different poses, when turned makes it look like they are moving.
The Hollow Knight exhibit was my favourite. You got to see the hand drawn story boarding and character designs. You got to look and see the care they put into designing each and every character, background and story. It’s really inspiring to see other people create an awesome game from the sort of drawings I like to do.
Whittlesea Tech
Each term, four students from our school take part in a program at Whittlesea Tech School called the Ambassadors Program. We work in small groups with students from other schools to develop different science projects. Two students from the orange group are working with a group on an interactive light display. This display uses conductive tape so when you touch the display part, it lights up.
Cooking
Great Food! Great Lunches!
Students at Plenty River College are very fortunate to have their lunches supplied each day of the week. On Tuesdays we are lucky to have Sharon, our generous volunteer who comes in to prepare breakfast, morning tea and lunches for our students and staff. Here are some of the amazing dishes served so far this term. Sharon we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your time and efforts. Your generosity and kindness do not go unnoticed.
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle
Following almost two years of hiatus due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the popular Bunning's Sausage Sizzle events are slowly but surely returning, and people are loving them.
As such, we at PRC are particularly delighted to have successfully secured multiple opportunities to undertake Sausage sizzle events at the Mernda branch of Bunnings Warehouse.
Our two maiden events of 2023 took place on Friday 24th and 31st of March with considerable success. Total earning from these events has been recorded as $715 before any deductions. A sum of $500 in cash and $70.50 in Mobile payments, respectively, has been deposited into the PRC account and $144.50 set aside for our next round of trading. A big thank you to all staff, external volunteers, and the participating students for getting together to plan and execute these events. Prior to commencing activities, all participants were required to have completed the mandatory Safe@Work module; attended and completed the Food Safety/Handling Course and CPR/First Aid training. To be equipped with the knowledge and skills in these areas undoubtedly put us in better stead during these events.
Of course, the core objectives of the sausage sizzle event, namely fund-raising for laudable causes as well as developing a range of employability skills, would remain paramount as we go forward.
As a learning community, PRC desires to engage in activities which nourishes others in our community whilst also nourishing our own learning experiences. We do the former by our pledge to donate the proceeds from the sausage sizzle events to worthy causes, including homelessness and youth homelessness. At the same time, participating students are enriching themselves with real job/life communication, inter-personal, teamwork, organisational, planning, and technical skills.
Our engagement in these events further serve to introduce PRC to the wider community as well as providing the opportunity to inform and educate interested members of the public about the uniqueness of our learning community.
As we get ready to stage a series of monthly events till the end of the school year, we feel delighted in the full knowledge that we are engaged in a win-win endeavour.
And for this, we should feel very proud.
Next date: 16th June
-Paul Adigun
Oakhill Food Justice Farm
PRC students recently attended the Oakhill Food Justice Farm in Preston. Throughout the day, they assisted with weeding, soil care, layering compost, planting tomatoes and other vegetables. It was very pleasing to see everyone working together harmoniously and with good humour. The students worked so well, they finished their daily tasks half an hour early. Lisa from Oakhill was very impressed with our students and their efforts, praising them and saying that we were welcome back anytime.
