Celebration of Learning

Chinese Incursion - Dragon Boat Festival

On Thursday the 24th of June all of the chinese class students attended an incursion workshop for the Chinese dragon Boat festival hosted by Rende International INC. We participated in many fun, interesting and creative activities all throughout the day. Some of these activities included making colourful Zongzi crafts filled with Mugwort, and making beautiful Chinese traditional friendship bracelets and to finish the session off they gave us colourful bracelets and zodiac charms. Overall it was a very fun and exciting experience for everyone and we wanted to say a big thank you to Rende International and our very own Chinese teacher, Ms Liu. We really appreciated all the hard work you put in to make this day special! 

Maya Moore and Stella Watmore.

Year 8 Maths Excursion

Discover! Experience! Learn!

That was the moto for the masterful, magnificent and marvellous mathematics excursion undertaken by Canterbury Girls’ Year 8 students on Tuesday 22nd June 2021.

With one postponement under our belt, the maths department was determined to enrich the inquisitive minds of our Year 8 students.

The day dawned overcast and rainy. But our powers of resolute prevailed. 

Boarding the bus, the rain started to dry up, and off on our adventure we went.

First call of the day was calculating the average speed by knowing the distance travelled ( a polite student asked for the odometer reading of the bus) and the time it took, (read off the clock in the bus).  This was followed by starting our travel graph.

Arrival at the Botanical gardens. 

The teachers now guided us through the Royal Botanical Gardens to discover all the maths that was on offer. This ranged from;

• climbing the stairs near Lady’s Macquarie’s Chair where we counted and timed, yes, we ran up all 120 stairs.
• being continually on the lookout for all the different shapes the park existed and drawing some to scale
• looking at the Mare and Foal statue for proportion,
• discovering the Morshead fountain for degrees,
• checking out the time using the sun dial
• calculating the depth of the
• also, we discovered the different types of people that used the park, which we displayed in a graph.

Although some of these activities were challenging, we completed them, gaining a high level of understanding whilst exploring one of Sydney’s wonders. 

Rachel Giang, Edie Hartas, Ivanka Tillott, Allegra Nassar.

HSC Society and Culture

Congratulations to our HSC Society and Culture students who have successfully completed and submitted their Personal Interest Projects; a Practical component to their course work". Many ePIPanies along the way. It has been a pleasure working with them. - Ms Keirouz.

8Z MasterChef A - Jenkins 

Students had been really engaged in completing their Isolation Care Package Task. 

Once they had Turned In this task I gave them an extension activity. I asked my class to "Cook me something" as Lockdown meant they were missing out on cooking practical's at school, and I knew my class would engage with the request. My amazing class set about creating a whole lot of deliciousness. Here are 4 different student responses posted in our Google Classroom.

Thank you to our Year 8 MasterChef families for encouraging our students during this challenging time, ensuring a positive connection with food, healthy eating, and facilitating skill development and cooking confidence in your home kitchens. 

Rice Paper Rolls - Bo Chang

Chocolate Brownies - Elina Sherry

Vegetarian Lunchbox - Ivanka Tillott

Hokkaido Cheesecake - Alison Wong

Learning From Home Year 9 PDHPE

In our practical lessons this term, Year 9 PDHPE were meant to be learning about Soccer. To make up for our missed PE lessons, Year 9 students have been asked to follow Coach Gelardi from YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKtIhVp_EA4 

During this particular lesson, students used items they could find around their house (socks or something round and a basket/bucket) to practice their speed and ball control.

Learning from Home Year 8A Science

Year 8A Science students have taken inspiration from poet Dorothea Mackellar’s iconic “My Country” in the topic they are doing on “Natural Events!! or Natural Events??”.

Year 8 have been studying the various flora and fauna that live in different kinds of ecosystems.

Whilst learning from home, they have become 'Specialist Ecologist Researchers', who have discovered a new species of animal. For their assessment task they had to design a new animal and describe how it's adaptations have helped it survive in it's ecosystem.

The following images are their discoveries!

Learning from Home - 8ENGE

Learning From Home - Year 7 French

Students handy with handiwork online

Examples of work done by students showing their skills online, in spite of not being in a classroom. Tahlia Tavakol (7LANH) figured out how to colour on a PDF.

Zara Taylor and Hannah Gray (both 7LANP) followed directions in French to make a sock puppet. They hope to make these personages  come alive in conversation when we return to normal classes. 

Preliminary Textiles and Design - Bags At Home

During Term 3, Year 11 students would normally have been manufacturing their individually designed/themed bags. Due to Lockdown - class focus has shifted to a lot of theory.  This related task lightened the load for two lessons.

"Using whatever paper and sticky tape or stapler you have lying around your home, make a bag/wallet/or purse (prototype)

You can creatively add aesthetic features/colours etc to the outside by drawing or making decorative features out of paper or whatever you have on hand" 

These were some of the results.

Mrs Cooper 'Dad' Jokes

Mrs Coopers classes have been prompted to mark their attendance online with sports based 'dad' jokes with the answers posted in the lesson. Here are a few from the last few weeks:

• Why didn't the soccer team select Cinderella as a player? She kept running away from the ball.
• Why don't soccer players like to eat sandwiches? They don't like to use their hands.
• What sports do insect's like to watch?Cricket.
• What race is never run? A swimming race.
• What happens when you throw a painter into a pool? Artistic swimming.
• Why don't fish like to play tennis? They are afraid of the net.
• Why does someone who runs marathons make a good student? Because education pays off in the long run!