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THEATRE STUDIES TERM 3

Play Viewing

On Thursday the 11 August, Year 10 and 11 Theatre Studies students went on an excursion to Theatre Works in St Kilda, Melbourne, to see the play, “Medea, Out of the Mouth of Babes.” This modern re-imagined adaptation of the old Greek classic play was dynamic and exciting, as it told the age old story of Medea’s demise through the innocent eyes of children. 

The Marvel and fantasy like costumes were awe inspiring, while the lighting and sound design transported the audience into a timeless world. The set was adorned with multimedia screens and live videoing, which added to the artistic value of the performance. The interpretation of Medea certainly gave the students plenty to think and write about.

Commedia Del Arte Performance of, “Masters and Servants”

Year 11 Theatre Studies students recently performed their Commedia Del Arte performance to Grades 3-6 at St Joseph's, Korumburra. The Pre-Modern style of Theatre involves mask work with comedic conventions of slap stick, clowning and exaggeration. The primary aged students loved what they saw and laughed enthusiastically at the jokes and antics of the traditional master and servant characters. 

Theatre Studies teacher Laura Muranty said, it was great to have the opportunity to work with one of our feeder schools after Covid restrictions. Following the play, Laura ran a Commedia workshop with the children, so they could have a go at dressing up and performing too. 

ASX SCHOOLS SHAREMARKET GAME

Game 1 News 

Congratulations to Ty Hall, Darcy Methven and Silas O’Halloran (known as ‘Tag Team’) in Year 12 Economics. They were our school’s highest performing syndicate in the ASX Schools Sharemarket Game with a portfolio value of $51,596.63 at the end of the ten weeks of trading. It is interesting that of the 19,351 syndicates playing nationally, only 13% of participants ended the game in profit. The average portfolio value was $47,769.90. Well done boys for making a profit during quite uncertain and volatile times in our world.

Game 2

The ASX Schools Sharemarket Game 2 trading will commence on August 18 and conclude on October 27. Email Mrs Leslie to register. Participants receive a virtual $50,000 to invest over a 10-week period, in over 300 companies listed on the ASX. The prices they buy and sell at are the same prices as in the live market. This is as close to real-life share trading as you can get.

Syndicate major prizes – 1st $600, 2nd $500 and 3rd $400

Syndicate state prize – 1st $400

The MacKillop ASX Traders’ winning syndicate will also receive a great prize.

Julia Leslie

YEAR 11 ECONOMICS SPEAKS WITH BETA

Year 11 Economics students enjoyed a most informative session with economists from the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA). The wonders of technology allowed us to speak with two young BETA members who work in Canberra, Hanne and Nic, via Microsoft Teams. Interestingly, Hanne is an economist and Nic’s background is in psychology. Our students were able to interact and ask questions. They had been studying Behavioural Economics, so this was a great opportunity to link economic theory to real life experience. 

BETA is the Australian Government’s central unit for applying behavioural insights to public policy in order to improve the lives of Australians. It brings together research from economics, psychology and behavioural science to design and test the application of behavioural insights to policy.

Hanne and Nic focused their presentation on one of their recent projects about cyber security based on the following:

That is the Australian population was aware of cybersecurity risks relating to smart devices, and would their buying decisions change. BETA was looking at the problem of asymmetric information needing to be addressed as at present producers have more information than consumers. Therefore, it can be assumed that there is currently an overallocation of resources to smart devices. BETA examined types of labelling on smart devices that could better inform consumers about possible cyber security issues relating to smart devices and the potential impacts on the market for these devices of such labels.

Robert Ornsby’s reflection:

Finding out the behind-the-scenes processes of things that are in the real world and have an actual effect, while also being the same things we're learning in class is really encouraging because we can look at it and go "Yeah I can do that!". Thanks for the opportunity to see things that we could do.

Julia Leslie

VCE Economics Teacher

WALKATHON FUNDRAISERS

Year 7 Carnival

Tenison and McDonald Fundraiser