Year 8 this term

Miracle Babies

This year, students in Year 8 elective, ‘Mind Your Own Business,’ planned and set up their own small businesses to raise money for the Miracle Babies Foundation and Westmead Children’s Hospital. Students worked hard and learned about aspects of business functions such as operations, finance and marketing. Our first group of students ran food-based stalls including Creamy Creamers, Sweet Spider Drinks, Waffle World, MWKRS Milkshakes and Cupcake Creations. This term, Candy Emporium and Festive Gift Bags satisfied students’ sugar cravings, The Pen House assisted students with their stationary needs for the 2019 school year, and Blossom Beauty sold a range of beauty and skincare products in mini pamper packs.

Thank you to students, parents and staff who have supported our budding entrepreneurs.

Jamberoo

Throughout the year, our Year 8 students have worked consistently both inside and outside the classroom. As a reward, Year Advisers Ms Miletic and Mr Dunn organised a fun-filled day at Jamberoo where our Year 8 students controlled the action.

Through a misty foggy morning, blurry eyed students arrived at Jamberoo early and eager to get the day started. On arrival, students took part in a quick swim exam to determine their level of ability. Once their wristbands were on, students were ready to get the day started.

First on the agenda, students participated in team building activities. Students had to form groups of 8-10 and run around the park, solving fun riddles whilst completing daring tasks. Students had to use their maths skills as well as their problem solving skills to get through all the rides and adventures. With the reward of a pizza lunch for the team who finished first, the competition was on.

After a delicious burger lunch, students had free time to explore the theme park to its fullest. Teachers also took this opportunity to engage with the students and explore the ever daring water slides. Both student and teacher favourite was The Perfect Storm, the tallest, longest most exciting water ride in the world. A ride that consists of 3 tornados, that had students (and some teachers) twisting, rotating, screaming and cheering all at the same time.  Another favourite was The Funnel Web, a high impact water slide that had students twisting and twirling at a whopping 30km/h throughout darkness. Cheers and screams could definitely be heard throughout the entire park. Finally the day ended with races down Surf Hill were students raced down an 18m speed slide.

As the sun was beginning to set, unfortunately the excitement had to come to an end. Students packed up and clean up our designated area, leaving Jamberoo clean and fresh. A sleepy bus ride home was on the cards, where students shared the amount of times they all went on the rides. Mathew Chhour and Ryley Cabaltera said they went on the “Water slides about 18 times.” With the screams and excitement now just a distant memory, the bonding and fun-filled adventure the students shared would last a lifetime.

Clean Up Cecil

During week 8, students from Year 8P Geography took it upon themselves to clean up our schools playground. Students had been studying the importance of environmental sustainability and liveability for the past year and as a class, wanted to lead by example and clean up our school after lunch.

Students were collecting data on what areas of the school had the most amount of rubbish as well as what type of rubbish was being left on the ground. Zerda Kaya from 8P noted “it’s not that hard to put your rubbish in the bin, there are bins everywhere.”

Students then returned to the classroom and graphed their findings. They uncovered that bottle lids and chip packets are the two most common pieces of rubbish left on the floor. Areas like the main quad and basketball area had the highest amount of rubbish left on the ground. Students put this down to this area being a high student traffic area. As a result, students would like to see more bins placed in this area.

Additionally, students came up with the slogan ‘stand up and bin it’. This mean that year 8 would like students to stand up to their peers when they see students throw rubbish on the floor, and tell them to bin it!

It is important for our students to become more rubbish-aware and lead by example in their actions. This responsible behaviour enlightened students to be more respectful towards our environment at Cecil Hills High School.  As Rabina Aziz from 8P said  “LETS KEEP CECIL HILLS HIGH SCHOOL CLEAN” it is our playground, let’s take pride in it.

A Kulevski,  Year 8 Connect teacher