School News

Girls in Science

The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Program strives to support and recognise accomplished women researchers, encourage more young women to enter the profession and to assist them as they progress their careers.

 

The program in Australia & New Zealand awards four $25,000 Fellowships each year. Each Fellow is awarded $25,000 for a one year project. This is intended to provide practical help for the winners to undertake research in their chosen fields.

 

Each year the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Australia & New Zealand Fellows share their stories with female students through the Girls in Science program.

 

The forum provides an opportunity for students to hear the Fellows speak about their current work and to ask them questions about their career path. https://www.forwomeninscience.com.au/

 

On Wednesday October 26, nine of our Year 11 students attended this year’s forum at Burwood campus of Deakin University. The scope of work that was discussed on the day ranged from looking into atmospheric gases and their impact on our environment to the expression of complex genes. The 2016 fellows are Dr. Angela Crean, Dr. Camilla Wittington, Dr. Jenny Fisher and Dr. Erin Leitao.

 

Patricia Sklavakis

Year 11 Leader

Year 7 Zoo Experience

On the 27th and 28th of October 2016 the adventurous year 7s set out to explore Melbourne Zoo. We, Chisolm and Maris, started off the day with amazing weather and had a lovely walk towards Burnley Station. We hopped on a train and soon arrived at Royal Park.

 

Upon arriving at the zoo, we set off with a sheet to guide our investigation. Lately in all year 7 Social World classes we have been studying the pros and cons of having zoos, which led to our zoo excursion.

Nearly as cute as the animals!
Nearly as cute as the animals!

We visited most enclosures and purchased some delicious food while stopping to speak to some zoo keepers about the health of animals and the enclosures. We had prepared questions to ask ahead of time. Throughout the day there were many opportunities to watch seals perform, meerkats being fed and lots more activities to do with the animals.

 

As the teachers were walking around and observing they saw many students come out of their shells, build their confidence by talking to the zoo keepers and have fun on this amazing day. It was a fantastic opportunity for the girls to not only have fun around the animals and enclosures but to learn about the daily life of some of the animals and the zoo itself and get to know the zoo’s history.

 

After an exhausting day of walking and talking everybody came back together, ready to catch the train back to Flinders Street. Not only were the teachers impressed with our behaviour, we also had many compliments from a lot of the other teachers and staff at the zoo. We also had members of the public commenting on how great we all looked wearing our hats!

 

Alessia Acquaro 7C1 and  Peggy Christie 7C2