Student News

Product and Design Technology

This Year 7 group have just completed their Carry Boxes in Product Design Technology and haven't they done an awesome job! Well done everyone.

Year 9 Eco Retreat

Our Year 9 students were fantastic on camp and showed encouraging resilience and positive attitudes despite the inclement weather. They demonstrated great enthusiasm while participating in the environmental service of cutting down invasive Sallow Wattle - the work the students completed in 2 hours would have taken Parks 2 weeks to complete! The students were very happy with their accomplishment.

Miss Grace said she was very proud of the students stepping up and taking on all the activities positively and having a go. They all did a very good job and had an enjoyable retreat.

VET Small Business

A big thank you to Gage Wright, small business owner of Spinwright. Gage is a former student at St B's and a young entrepreneur. Gage came and talked to the students about his small business, how and why he started it, the day to day operations, his entrepreneurial skills, future challenges, covid impacts and how his growing business is going from strength to strength. Gage's retail trade is growing and he has many shops that he now supplies his lures to. Gage also  featured in Australia's  'Hooked Up' magazine with a picture of his first metrey on one of his own Spinwright beast lures.

The students enjoyed learning about the different aspects of his business.

Year 7 Textiles

Our Year 7 Design & Technology students have been busy creating their own Ugly Dolls in Textiles with Mrs Van Dyk.

They may be called Ugly Dolls but we think they are pretty cute!

Food Technology

Our Year 8 students have been getting creative in the kitchen with their cake designs. Consider making some of these wonderful designs for your next birthday celebrations! 

[ Watch this space.... more photos to come! ]

VCAL Literacy Excursion

To complement and complete their study on their Mental Health and Wellbeing unit, VCAL Literacy students visited Aradale and J-Ward in Ararat yesterday. Students were able to gain a deeper understanding of how societies understanding and approach to mental health has dramatically changed over the years. Our friendly tour guides were a wealth of knowledge, and we learnt so much! 

Young Vinnies Movie Night

On Friday night our Young Vinnie’s group held a fundraising activity in the form of a movie night at school. Approximately 30 students enjoyed the evening viewing of ‘Spiderman No Way Home’ and feasted on sausages in bread (Donated by Wimmera Meat Market), drinks (donated by Mrs Erika Eder - Bailey's Mum) and popcorn (popcorn machine provided by Mr Reyland). The Young Vinnies also supplied students with some sweet delights accompanied by lolly bags at a movie interval.

Full credit for organising this event must go to the Young Vinnie’s Executive, headed by Scarlett Munday-Terry and supported by Mikayla Sotiriadis and the team. Well done everyone! This event raised $224.50 for St Vincent de Paul.

The evening would not have been able to occur without the support of some wonderful teaching staff - Mrs Schultz, Mr Reyland, Mrs Jeffery, Miss Giampaolo and Mrs Van Dyk. Thanks also to the staff who assisted with organisational items prior to the event.

Art Is.... Eating Tomorrow

Have you ever wondered what the future might look like? Feel like? Taste like?

This week our Year 7’s have attended the immersive art installation Eating Tomorrow at the Maydale Reserve.

Eating Tomorrow is a back-to-the-future time travel experiment, immersing audiences in prospective scenarios of what our food systems, customs and behaviours might become in the next fifty years. Scenarios are based on research from the Australian Academy of Science and explore native food, the water footprint of food, edible insects and weeds, food waste and food technology.

Students were lead through a multi-sensory theatre work and asked to see, touch, smell and taste what the food in the future might be. Highlights were the bubbling glacier water, chocolate biscuits with mealworms, wattle seed cake, native tea and the scent of eucalyptus while we drew native foods and listened to local elders talk about bush foods and caring for the land.

Year 12 History

In their exploration of the significance of the Russian Revolution to the 20th Century and today's global politics, our Year 12 students completed an activity Ms G likes to call 'Caption This'. Students were tasked with trying to match the item representing something specific about Russia's history to a blurb outlined on the task worksheet.

At the end of this activity the students sat down to enjoy some Russian black bread, and all noted they would have rather starved then protest over the rising costs of this bread in 1917!