College News

Science in Primary School Program

St. John's Year 9 student's visited St. Anthony's Primary School last week assisting  Grade 1 and 2 students on Science Education.

The purpose of the Primary Science Program is to build community connections between St John’s and our local primary schools. We do this for a number of reasons, including giving primary students a chance to undertake learning activities in a secondary setting, which will hopefully reduce the stress of their transition to secondary school later on. In the meantime, St John’s students are given the chance to development and refine their leadership skills.

Paul Colvin, Teacher

Year 12 TAT Excursion

On the 27th of March the Year 12 Texts and Traditions class learned about first century History in a practical way, through making and eating the kinds of food that the people would have had in first century Judea. We went to the food room and in three different groups made bread, lentil and chickpea soup and bulgur with mince wrapped in vine leaves. We ate these meals and also tried a range of other food and drinks that Jews who lived in the first century were likely to have eaten including milk, pomegranate juice, haloumi cheese, figs, dates and fava beans. It was a great opportunity to get a real sense of what life in the first century was really like.

Rachel Towns, Literacy Coach 

Astronomy Announcement 

This year in Astronomy, we focused on developing our knowledge of the celestial sphere. We followed the movement of constellations, identifying and comparing apparent magnitude and understanding how we can estimate distances to the stars using parallax measurements. We are currently looking at identifying various types of nebulae, with a particular focus on dark nebulae as star forming regions.  

Shantelle De'Silva, Student 

CSYMA

In our year 11 CYSMA class,  we spend our time focusing on youth ministry and how we can depend our involvement in our local community. This is an excellent way to teach the youth how to involve themselves in leadership roles and how to become more selfless. This program really gives us time to improve more on the personal aspects of life focusing less on gaining what we do not have, but learning how to be thankful and give back to the community; not just financially but also giving back in our faith. Spreading awareness about Caritas was one of our main goals this term. Each group visited two classes and talked about the different causes that Caritas supports inside their foundation, project compassion; and where the money that we donated goes. This course enables us to open our minds to our world today and how we can make the world a better place with the guidance of our faith as well as our amazing teacher Ms Kelly. 

Samaria Samuel, Student