Year 7 News

Camp Coolamatong

Most Year 7s and 16 dedicated Year 10 mentors attended camp during Week 5. The impressive range of activities kept groups busy, learning, and certainly more energetic than a day back at school! Several staff drove up for a day or 2 including Ms Cleo Lazaris (Campus Principal), Tom Kindellan (Advocate), and Jacob Hibbert (Student Wellbeing). 

The photos capture the spirit of teamwork, building relationships, and welcoming new experiences that prevailed throughout the week.

Thank you to Mr Russell White for making this annual highlight a reality: pre-event paperwork/communication, timetable back at school, the duty rosters, the all-important room allocations, thrilling evening challenges, and staff leadership - a group who were motivated and engaged with students throughout.

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Sport is such a powerfully motivating interest in many students’ lives. Students have represented Kurnai College in Soccer, AFL Football, Netball, Volleyball, Cross-country, Tennis, Swimming, and Cricket so far this year. (Read more about their experiences on the College News page). Year 7 students are also encouraged to form a sports team for lunchtime competitions between home groups.

Learning Behaviour Update Reports

The scores for students being ‘ready to learn’ in their classes were released on Compass, May 26. Just over 50 of our 94 students achieved over 3.5 out of 4 which requires a consistently high effort across their subjects in the areas of work completion, being on time to class, preparation, participation, and forming positive relationships with others. A Hot Chip Lunch was held to celebrate their success and other students will be recognised for positive effort in areas such as school-wide participation and growth in aspects of their learning.

Art

3D Plaster Puppies 

Students have been working for 3 weeks to create their 3D puppies. They have worked in 3 stages and with multiple different mediums.

Stage 1 was constructing the skeleton of their dogs with recycling.

Stage 2 was covering their entire sculpture in plaster strips.

Stage 3 was adding paint and eyes. 

They have made a wide variety of different types of puppies and they all look amazing.

NAIDOC Animals

Students have been working on artwork for our NAIDOC celebrations that will occur during week two next term. They have chosen local animals and described their living environments using indigenous symbols. They have drawn and painted their artwork on tiles with coloured ink. 

Darren Campbell

Tear 7 Team Leader