Middle School

Overall it has been a great start to the school year with a full term on-site and the opportunity to hold year level assemblies throughout the term. Middle School Students have had a highly successful term and have persevered through their first full on-site term in 12 months.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the school community for their ongoing support of our students and our college. Have a well deserved break and we look forward to working with you again in term 2.

Phil Adams

Middle School Assistant Principal

Year 7

Year seven students have had a very positive first term. Well done to you all for starting your school year off so excellently. Students that attended the year seven camp to Lake Dewar reflected our school values and enjoyed their day out. We saw some fantastic leadership by students who pushed themselves out of their comfort zones by trialing new activities.

Overall, we have been very proud of our 2021 year seven students that have settled into high school life smoothly and have been learning some exciting, new things in the classroom. These are just some of the learning highlights mentioned by year seven students;

Getting our bunsen burner licenses in Science - Divnoor Singh 7C
Learning about dynasties of Ancient China in Humanities - Kaitlyn Cashen 7B
Becoming stronger persuasive writers in English - Evodie Bulaba 7C
Doing scaffolding Maths suited to our ability to build our Maths skills - Najma Mohamed 7G
Learning how to communicate in Spanish “Cómo estás?” - Gursher Virk 7I
PE/Health - Playing sport like soccer and fun games with classmates to make us stronger and better team players! - Ali Al Khafaji 7B
Getting a chance to learn new ‘hands-on’ subjects such as Art, Performing Arts, Digital Technology and Food Technology - Gabriel Ristevski 7D

Embrace Learning Awards

This term Year 7 English teachers nominated two students from their class that showed the school value of ‘Embrace Learning’ and the following

Arriving the class with all the correct learning equipment
Maximise learning opportunities
Challenge themselves and ask for help when they need it
Seek out new knowledge and ideas

These students included:

7A: Hard Patel and Maddyson Adams

7B: Alistair Van der Stal and Sohie Sidhu

7C: Hashiru Katudampe Thantrige and Evodie Bulaba

7D: Bella Libreri and Shaban Al Shalloum

7E: Ifra Khan and Simar Singh

7F: Eliza Anjith and Miguel Resurreccion

7G: Michelle Trinh and Kayden Yoeun

7H: Mannat Grewel and Collin Elambasseril

7I: Niveda Lenu and Ethan Elambasseril

7J: Bianca Strakalj and Iiesh Jain

Congratulations on receiving the English award and showing a positive attitude and work ethic in Term 1! Keep it up!

Leadership in Year Seven

We have also selected our year seven house leaders and sustainability leaders! Congratulations to the below students for successfully obtaining a leadership role at ECSC!

Wollert
Hemal Sharma 7B
Harsimar Singh 7B

Mcdonald
Aydin Koc 7B
Antonio Dellevergini 7A

Jenkins
Hailey Bangan 7F
Bella Libreri 7D

Doherty
Shaban Al Salloum 7D
Miranda Kunda 7A

Sustainability Leaders
Vivian Chand 7D
Najma Mohamed 7G

Congratulations to all of those that applied! It's great to see that we have so much leadership potential in year seven. Have a well deserved break, keep up the great work and looking forward to a positive term two!

Tanele Spiteri

Year Seven Coordinator

Year 8

Congratulations to all Year 8 students for making a positive start to the school year. It is great to see that students have kept up with routines and expectations and continued to challenge themselves inside and outside of the classroom.

In particular, the students in 8A and 8B were part of our elective subject Community Leadership and demonstrated great patience, initiative and leadership skills when they went into Edgar’s Creek Primary School to help out with the Prep students. Our Year 8 students went into the Prep classes during their Developmental Play session and assisted them with a variety of activities, including; cardboard fort making, playdough moulding, alphabet learning, reading and dressups. Congratulations to all students involved, who were able to demonstrate our school values and represent ECSC with great positivity.

As the term comes to an end it is important to reflect on achievements and goals for the new term ahead. An important event coming up is our Year 8 Camp- Lady Northcote, which will be early in Term 2 on Wednesday 19th May- Friday 20th May. The Year 8 Camp is an important part of the schools curricular and extra curricular program with the focus on building students capacity to work in teams, to solve challenges and problems by working collaboratively with their student peers.

Thank you for all the contributions this term. Wishing all students a relaxing and safe term break. We hope to see you recharged and full of energy for Term 2.

Leadership in Year 8

Congratulations to the following students for obtaining Leadership positions as House Captain this year

Calais Larosa	Wollert
Fahma Faseer	Wollert

Nisha Baysah	Mcdonald
Joanne James	Mcdonald

Victoria Le	Jenkins
Navjot Kaur	Jenkins

Aaron James-Zoccoli	Doherty
Shreya Monga	Doherty

Embrace Learning Awards

This term Year 8 English teachers nominated two students from their class that showed the school value of ‘Embrace Learning’ and the following

Arriving the class with all the correct learning equipment
Maximise learning opportunities
Challenge themselves and ask for help when they need it
Seek out new knowledge and ideas

These students included:

8A Fahma Faseer and Joe Prizmic

8B Alara Brown and Fahad El-Erris

8C Dvjot Kaur and Emre Kolik

8D Nishtha Sarma and Hader Al-Saabary

8E Manider Kaur and Alhassan Alshuraymi

8F Zyrah Nguyen and Rafael Goncalves

8G Amelia Gionta and William Silver

8H Anais Cadin and Bobby Lambevski

Sandale Ambegoda

Year 8 Coordinator

Year 9

Well done Year 9 on navigating this busy first term at ECSC. This week our word of the week and themed focus in Homegroup has been REFLECT. At the end of our first term it is important that we take the time to reflect on our many successes and set ourselves goals for Term 2.

Well done to these students for achieving 100% attendance for Term 1

Agam Dhillon

Manish Kumar

Kloe Camporedondo

Izak Mihalcev

Chavvi Joshi, &

Jaiden Gumus

Yr 9 & 10 Summit Leadership Camp

Summit leadership camp was an enjoyable experience for Yr 9 and 10 students. This camp helped show leadership potential within all students. On our first day, we participated in the Monster course which had us work as a team through difficult challenges. They had us link arms and carry tyres around as we completed each challenge. Even the teachers participated to show that everyone in the team had to join and help with the race.

That evening we were put in a mind and belief program that helped us see what holds us back. Students were asked to write a problem in their life on a piece of wood and on the other side they were asked to solve it. Once everyone was done the instructors demonstrated how to break the wood. We all then got to have a go at breaking our piece of wood and breaking through the problem.

Kiarah and Jacinta

Embrace Learning Awards

This term Year 9 English teachers nominated two students from their class that showed the school value of ‘Embrace Learning’ and the following

Arriving the class with all the correct learning equipment
Maximise learning opportunities
Challenge themselves and ask for help when they need it
Seek out new knowledge and ideas

These students included:

9A: Mryana Qis Mussa and Ali Sadeghzadeh

9B: Aliza Kane and Tahlia Giacobbe

9C: Heifa Zeki and Ritesh Suneja

9D: Rakshita Chopra and Phillip Deak

9E: Jacinta Gionta and Ruben Santos

9F: Izk Mihalcev and Vidhi Patel

9G: Kanzy Saad and Jaiden Gumus

Congratulations on receiving the English award and showing a positive attitude and work ethic in Term 1! Keep it up!

In setting goals for Term 2 think about the College Values. Here are some goals that are very easy to achieve-

-Getting to lessons on time

-Having all your equipment for lessons

-I will use positive and inclusive language

For those of you who want a little more of a challenge-

-I will maximise my learning opportunities by asking questions in lesson and completing all the required work

-I will look at challenging myself by doing some extension activities

-I will look to inspire and motivate others

Have a safe and restful break.

Mel Broders

Year 9 Coordinator

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