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Cattle Team visit the Royal Easter Show

Our cattle team had a very successful visit to the Royal Easter Show in Sydney during camps week last term. Led ably by Livestock Team Coordinator Mel Meek, the students did brilliantly to win four ribbons across six steers together with a silver medal in the Purebred Steer & Carcase Competition. For a full report please visit Ms Anthony’s Co-curricular section of this newsletter.

This week our cattle team started their preparations for the Upper Hunter Beef Bonanza later in the year. We will shortly take delivery of 10 steers and any students interested in joining should see Mrs Meek at school over the coming week.

Kindy TREE TV

Our Kindergarten students have begun their ‘TREE TV’ unit. To begin their unit, Mrs Lewis brought her Year 9 English class down to the prep to teach the students about open and closed questions. Following this Prime 7 News visited the students at school to talk about being a news reporter and how best to interview people (you may have seen us on the Monday night news!) The project continues next week with the students taking home their decorated, home-made microphones and television sets to interview their parents on camera about “why they live in Orange” and why they like living in Orange”. Stay tuned for some videos!

Chemistry of Cars in Year 10

Mr McLennan’s Year 10 Chemistry class had an interesting lesson last week on the ‘Chemistry of Cars'. The students had to apply the reactions they had learnt in class (corrosion, combustion and metal + acid) to the processes that power and move a Tesla, Holden WB and Jaguar XJ6. The Tesla proved to be very popular with the students, especially when it began to dance (YouTube it if you haven’t seen it). A massive thank you to Kate Hook of Ecoluxe transfers, Mr Callaghan and Mr Thomas for kindly bringing in their treasured cars for the students to investigate and explore.

This week our 2019 interns opened for our current Year 10 cohort. There will be eight internships on offer in 2019, with the students working between 0.5 and 1 day a week across the entire of Terms 3 and 4. Interested students must submit a written or videoed application to the TREE Frog page by Monday Week 4.

Mr Tom Riley 

Director of TREE