STEM

FOOD TECH

China Town

It was great to stroll into town to experience the famous China Town in Little Bourke St with the Year 11 Food Studies students. The girls were happy to be out and about enjoying our proximity to this Melbourne icon of cultural and culinary significance. There was evidence of Melbourne’s Chinese history everywhere as we hurried down the historic street to make our lunchtime booking.

Students finished with a wonderful yum cha at West Lake. There were all the great traditions we know and love on display: the trolley filled with steaming baskets of dumplings, the Lazy Susan, pots of jasmine tea, the mysterious pricing system and the general hub-bub…

Some students were experiencing yum cha for the first time (and had to ask shame-facedly for forks) while others were old hands and were able to order on behalf of the class. Everyone enjoyed the experience and it was a pleasure to be dining with such appreciative foodies!

Ms Amy Prendergast Food Technology teacher 

MATHEMATICS: State-wide Maths Games Day

Yr 7, 8 & 10

The school was competently represented in Yr 7 by; Mia Phu, Mikayla Pandjaitanm, Callie Axalan, Angelina Zervoudakis, Truc Tran, Lila Dymott-Khuong, Audrey Mu and Eliza Leech. 

The day consisted of four activities involving working in a group and also individually against students from other schools. The girls were very competitive and worked extremely well in their groups.

“It was a good experience to be creative and work together in our group” 

Eliza Leech 

“It was fun interacting with other schools, working as a team and doing it together”  Audrey Mu.

Year 8 students attended a maths games day at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar. In total 40 different schools were represented across the state, many sending two teams of 4. The students battled their way through two tough rounds of problem solving, attempting to solve as many problems as possible in the 40 minute time allocation. This was then followed by three rounds of strategy games were our students battled to win against other teams from other schools and then finally a last round of problem solving. Whilst we did not finish in the top 10 everyone had a great day out and enjoyed battling wits with other math minded individuals.

Year 10 students

On Wednesday the 31st of August a group of Academy Year 10s had the privilege of participating in the Year 10 Statewide Maths Games Day held at Trinity Grammar. There were approximately 240 students who participated from all over Victoria.  There were 60 teams of four in total. The Games Day commenced with a problem solving activity where we had to work in our teams of four to solve 20 problems. The next section was a game. We all paired up with a student from a different school and versed them for 30 minutes. The following section was another game with a different opposition. The final section of the day was a relay event which was very competitive. It was an hour in total and it involved a member from each team to run to the front of the hall, grab a question and run it back to the team. We then had to solve the question and run it back to the front to submit our responses and obtain the next question. There were 20 questions to be solved.  It was a very challenging and fun day and it was great to meet students from other schools.  It was an amazing opportunity and we are all very grateful for such an experience.  Zoe Accetta, 10 Blue

Dr Bryce Dermody Mathematics Teacher

Pi Recital 

On Friday the school ran a Pi recital competition as part of National Numeracy Week where students were to recite as many digits of the number Pi as possible. Seven contestants from various year levels participated in the competition and a variety of approaches used to memorized the digits ranging from using block memory techniques and through to using songs and rhymes. Lila Dymott-Khuong from Year 7 Red was the student whom managed to memorise most digits of Pi (87 digits) and subsequently won the competition. A job well done Lila!

Mr Eric Chan Mathematics Learning Leader