School Highlights
Year 4s share their learning with Prep to Year 2s
Angela Sharp, Year 4 Classroom Teacher
On Friday 11 November, we invited the Prep to Year 2s into the Year 4 classrooms to share our learning on Africa with them.
The Year 4s had created biomes and a travel brochure of a selected country in Africa. We were also lucky enough to share our learning with Mr French and Mr Collins.
Watch a video of the event here.
Years 5 and 6 cross-curricular excursion between French and Visual Arts
Jessica Tham, Art and Year 9 Program Teacher
On Tuesday 15 November, our Years 5 and 6 students attended a cross-curricular excursion between French and Visual Arts to The Lume to see the ‘Monet and Friends’ exhibition.
Students immersed themselves in this multi-sensory interactive experience that allowed them to engage and view the Impressionist artworks throughout the 19th Century in a fresh and modern take.
The exhibition allowed students to dance along with Degas’ ballerinas, smell the flowers in Monet’s Garden and be surrounded by the artistic city of Paris through projections, animations and music.
Year 8 'Our Sustainable World' incursion
Louise Macfarlane, Science Teacher
As part of their 'Our Sustainable World' program, Year 8s recently had an exciting science incursion called the 'Ecological Tipping Point'.
The incursion taught students about the interrelated nature of ecosystems and suggested solutions to threats to ecosystems.
This was part of the STELR activities students have been in involved in. STELR (Science and Technology Education Leveraging Relevance) is a national initiative of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.
Some of the STELR topics that the students have been exploring include wind power experiments, energy transformations and electricity generation.
Year 9 Science Talent Search
On 17 November, we celebrated the achievements of some of our Year 9s who entered this year’s Science Talent Search (STS) competition run by the Science Teachers Association of Victoria (STAV). All entries were in the Scientific Photography category.
Alessia Di Felice
Alessia Di Felice
Marcel Krivonos
Marcel Krivonos
Maya Wimalasundera
Maya Wimalasundera
Seven students entered the competition and we were able to achieve three Major Bursary awards, three Minor Bursary awards and one Merit award.
Andrew Volakakis
Andrew Volakakis
Alex Xu
Alex Xu
Statewide, STAV only awarded a total of three Major and six Minor bursaries, which means our students won all possible Major Bursaries and half of all Minor Bursaries for the Scientific Photography category.
Caleb Mendez
Caleb Mendez
Elijah Ignasiak
Elijah Ignasiak
Congratulations to our award winners!
- Alessia Di Felice - Major Bursary
- Maya Wimalasundera - Major Bursary
- Marcel Krivonos - Major Bursary
- Caleb Mendez - Minor Bursary
- Alex Xu - Minor Bursary
- Andrew Volakakis - Minor Bursary
- Elijah Ignasiak - Merit