Year 9 Activities
Year 9 Program Report
As part of the Year 9 Program “Making Connections” all students in Year 9 have spent 3 weeks out in our local community. On Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th February we had our indigenous cultural walk. Our guide, Dean Stewart, walked us through the 40,000 year history of our local area.
On Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st February our Year 9 students were involved in a beach clean-up along St Kilda beach foreshore. The students were amazed at the amount of litter they collected in a short amount of time.
The follow up to the foreshore clean-up was a visit to Sea Shepherd HQ in Williamstown on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th February. Here the students were given facts and figures on their own beach clean-up and the amount of rubbish that makes its way into our oceans. A truly valuable learning experience.
If you have any questions/queries about the Year 9 Program please do not hesitate to contact the school.
Lou Tsarpalas
Year 9 Program Teacher
Beach Clean Up
In week 4 our group took the tram to St Kilda beach where we met a volunteer from Sea Shepherd. We put on gloves and got large bags so we could collect all the rubbish we found along the beach. We spent an hour cleaning up the beach.
In my group some of the things we found were cigarette butts, glass, plastic tags, bottle caps, plastic bags, fast food packaging as well as glass and plastic bottles. At the end of the clean up time we all met up and made a pile of our rubbish and sorted it into different categories - recyclable plastics, non-recyclable plastics, aluminium cans, cigarette butts, wood and clothes. By the end of the sorting 962 cigarette butts were counted and all the buckets were full of rubbish.
Nat Cosgrave
Year 9
Sea Shepherd Base Visit
In week 5 we took a private bus down to Williamstown to the Sea Shepherd base. We spent over an hour sitting down listening to the representative talk about what Sea Shepherd does to help marine life conservation. We learnt about how they stop poachers and illegal fishing all over the world, removing the drift nets from the ocean, and then the fish from the by-catch of the nets. Apparently, sometimes they need to chase after the illegal fishing boats, one of which lasted over 100 days, from Antarctic waters to the West African coast.
Afterwards, we got to see one of their ships that was being retired due to its damage, the ship being the ‘Steve Irwin’. As well as learning what they do for the community, we also learned what we can do to help our environment such as reducing our plastic use by using reusable water bottles and lunch containers, saying no to straws and plastic bags, and using environmentally friendly cleaning products at home.
Lauren Raftopoulos
Year 9
Wheel Talk
This term in PE, Year 9s are focusing on modified games for inclusion. Students are learning about why modified games are important and engaging in multiple different activities. This term the Disability Sport and Recreation Organisation came and took the Year 9s through their stories and had them participate in wheelchair basketball and other activities. Everyone loved the day and all had sore arms the next day.
“It was an interesting experience and incredibly fun”
Dahlia Berhang
Sasha Byrnes
Head of Health & PE
