Secondary School
Year 7
Mrs Quill's Year 7 Visual Art students have been learning how to use different art elements and principles. They have used line and pattern to create some unique landscapes. The results are pretty impressive!
Mrs Smith's Year 7s have been learning about the Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources in Science. Their assessment involved constructing a useful item out of recycled products. Items constructed in Mrs Smith’s class included bird feeders, native bee hotel, ten pin bowling equipment, tennis ball holder, plant waterers, life jacket, water sprinkler, biodegradable plant pots, drink cup holder, bag, rain gauge, wind chimes, push bike drink bottle holders, toys and two minute timer.
Year 8
On 24 May, Year 8 had the privilege of a visit from a young Yorta Yorta musician, Madi Colville-Walker. Year 8s are currently studying Aboriginal Music in class and working on their guitar skills. They asked some great questions about Madi's experience learning music, writing music and performing in public. Madi was generous with her time and perfomed a beautiful song in Yorta Yorta. She then taught all of the year group 'Inanay', a traditional lullaby in Yorta Yorta language. Congratulations to the Year 8 students who modelled some mature and respectful behaviour during her presentation at MAG.
Year 9
Mrs Carmody's Year 9 Science have begun their introduction to Senior Chemistry with a practical investigation of atomic structure.
Mrs Carmody's Year 9 Forensic Science students investigating the effect of 'release height' on blood drop diameter and shape.
Mr Carmody's Year 9 Science investigating reaction times in their HOMEOSTASIS unit.
Mr Carmody's Year 9 Forensic Science investigating the effect of impact surface on bloodstain diameter and shape.
Mr Lethlean's Year 9 Graphics students completed some tutorial work with Adobe Illustrator and then had to reimagine/redesign a current food package into a unique product that would help increase sales to customers.
Year 10
Mrs Paul's Year 10 students doing the flame test where they observe different colours when chemicals are heated using a tungsten filament dipped in various solutions.
They were fascinated with the apple green colour produced by copper chloride which is also used to produce a variety of colours in fireworks.
Mrs Carmody's Year 10 Chemistry students carrying out flame tests to investigate outer shell electron movement & return to ground state.
Mrs Carmody's Year 10 Chemistry students investigated the Law of Conservation of Mass, with particular consideration of any effects changes in chemical bonding might have.
Mrs Smith's Year 10 Agriculture students have been measuring the growth rates of the calves reared at school for the past month as part of the “Cows Creates Careers” program.
Year 9 Agriculture and HSC Primary Industries students have also been feeding the calves.
Food & Fibre Careers Day
The Food and Fibre Careers Day at the University of Melbourne Dookie Campus hosted students from many schools in the area. Moama Anglican Grammar students of Agriculture and Primary Industries in Years 9 to 12 attended. Students selected various workshops to participate in. Highlights included observing a drone with a spray tank of 30 litres spot spray the oval, riding in a driverless side-by-side vehicle preprogrammed to inspect a paddock boundary, watching robots milk cows and learning the hands-on technique of artificial insemination. Other workshops included indigenous foods, pasture checks, sheep, horses and viticulture. MAG would like to thank the CCLLEN for assisting with co-ordination of the day.
Well done to Kade, Xavier, Breanna and Kiarra who represented our school in the lunchtime interschool Young Farmers Challenge – you kept us very entertained!
"A highlight from the Dookie Careers Day was the demonstration of the large Agricultural drone. We were told the drone was worth roughly $45,000. The operator set a GPS route and replicated spraying a paddock. It was great to be able to see the future of farming and agricultural technologies." - Lucas Jettner
"I attended the Dookie Food and Fibers Careers Day. I enjoyed learning about the different career pathways in the agricultural field and listening to professionals talk more about each job and the different aspects of it.
I went to the Viticulture, Animal Science and the Wool workshops. In the viticulture workshop we learnt how to prune the vines and what time of year the plant grows its fruit. In the Animal Science workshop we learnt how to wrap and treat an injured animal's leg. In the wool workshop we watched a demonstration of how a sheep gets shorn and learnt what different types of wool are used for." - Aleisha Moon
