Middle School

Year 8 Werribee Zoo Excursion

On Wednesday, 11 September, a selection of year 8’s from 8A,8E,8G and 8K attended Werribee Zoo. I personally and thoroughly enjoyed the day. 

Some of the activities during the day included looking at various animals in their natural habitat, undertaking a scavenger hunt, going in a cage with the orange-bellied parrots and last, but not least going on a safari bus tour.

The highlight of the day would have to be the safari bus tour, as this was an opportunity to see the animals up close and see how they behave in their natural environments. I definitely recommend going to the Werribee Zoo as I learnt so many facts about grassland animals in general, and how they help humans and our ecosystem to survive.

Betty Z. 8G

Year 8 STEAM

Last week on Wednesday, 11 September, the year 8F class presented Science Technology Engineering Art and Maths (STEAM) projects in their groups to the rest of the class. Their aim was to make a Rube Goldberg inspired chain reaction machine to pop a balloon. Each group had to invent a machine with at least 8 stages resulting in the balloon popping and only one contact of human touch to start the machine. We were extremely impressed with each group's creativity and problem solving. Well done!

Sousanna Katiforis

Science Teacher

Year 9 Romeo & Juliet Incursion

On Friday, 30 August, the Year 9 cohort attended an incursion in the Performance Centre. As we are studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the event was a production of this play, portrayed and performed by three actors from Complete Works Theatre Company (CWTC). Four students from the Year 9 English SEAL class (Elina Jayamanna, Kelly Ng, Keiana Thai and Noah Freitas) were selected to assist these actors for the first scene in the production - the fight scene. We were required to meet the actors before school to have a run-through on stage and to go through our scripts. We all really enjoyed the opportunity to participate in this play, as it was great to do something out of our comfort zone. Throughout the short amount of time, the professional actors assisted us in portraying our characters, for example, how to be in character, and how to display mockery and aggression between the rival families. It was a lot of fun to meet the talented actors who produced such a well-rehearsed and comedic play with only 3 people. We are sincerely grateful to have worked alongside these fantastic actors and would like to thank CWTC and all the teachers for organising this event. We are sure the Year 9 cohort enjoyed it as much as we did.

Elina J., Kelly N., Keiana T. 9E

Year 7 Humanities

This term, year 7s have been learning about Ancient Egypt in History, focusing on the social structure, the architecture and their different way of life. Year 7E put their knowledge to the test by following the mummification steps to mummify a classmate (pretend of course). Each group successfully completed each of the mummification steps in the correct order and created necessary resources including canopic jars.

Courtney Taylor

Humanities Teacher