Senior students are settling in to a routine, working towards their first assessment tasks and learning good study habits.

Year 12 students are having progress chats with the Hub team to help them focus on their goals for the year, and are taking advantage of appointments with the Careers team to clarify requirements for their prospective lives after they finish their schooling.

Mitchell River Masonic Lodge Scholarship

Congratulations to Molly Richardson for being the recipient of the Mitchell River Masonic Lodge Scholarship. Recipients of the award must demonstrate a commitment to their studies and school, continue with their education in fields as diverse as linguistics, music, education arts and science.

Members from the Masonic Lodge presented Molly with her scholarship last week.

Students at work!

VCAL Garden Morning Tea

Staff enjoyed a yummy morning tea made by the VCAL garden cooking class.

VCAL Renovations

Senior student, Samuel Turnley’s VCAL project was renovating one of the VCAL offices. With the help of Learning Support Assistant Trevor Buck, Samuel washed the walls, filled any holes and painted two coats. Intermediate VCAL student Hayden Dalley helped with the second coat of paint.

Ms Norling’s VCAL Art/Technology Project class have also been busy renovating the 'new' VCAL classroom. It was ‘all hands on deck’ with the preparations. Stay tuned for photos of the amazing transformation once complete.

Environmental Science

The Year 12 students participated in a practical demonstrating the 'El Nino Southern Oscillation'. Students took the opportunity to get outside on the back deck of the Malgobila building, an opportunity to enjoy the sun and not worry about any spillage!

Year 11 VCE Biology

This week students in Year 11 VCE Biology were completing their CAT which is a laboratory report. Students were investigating the movement of water (osmosis) by placing shell-less eggs in sodium chloride (salt) solutions. After 1 hour the eggs were weighed and students discovered if the eggs gained or lost mass. Some students found the eggs weird because they had no shell and wanted to play with them.

The Year 11 VCE Biology students have been learning about cells and plasma membrane transport. Last week students put theory into practice by investigating the relationship between surface area to volume ratio and rate of diffusion. They achieved this by placing agar cubes of various sizes into an acidic solution.

Year 12 Common Room

One of the highlights of becoming a Year 12 student is that you get access to the common room. This is a space only available to Year 12 students, they can make a hot drink, toasted sandwiches and enjoy a chat with fellow students.

100% Attendance

These students have achieved 100% Attendance - CONGRATULATIONS

ALEXANDER, Jacob
ANDERSON, Cameron
ANDERSON, Emily
ATKINSON-HARRISON, Felicia Harrison
AVRON-COTTON, Ewan
BLUNT, Darcy
CONNELLY, Jaylah-Storm
CORBEN, Tajwyn
CROSS, Ben
DAY, Kasey
DRIESEN, Kobi
DUDLEY, Arie
EIGNER, Kerry
FORRESTER, Elly
GILL, Ansh
GREENWOOD, Darcy
HAINES, John
HAYDEN, Rose
HOLDEN HENDERSON, Kayle Henderson
JUNGE, John
KALAISELVAM, Deevy
LAMBERT, Oliver
LAWRENCE, Justice
MOSER, Arthur
OTTOSSON, Noah
OVEREND, Charlie
PITT, Ethan
SHAW, Tess
SMITH, Kobe
SMITH-ENTINK, Bess
SOUTHEN, Jaymz
SQUIRES, David
STUCHBREE, Jack
SUTTON, Ripp
TOMS, Josh
TOWNSEND, Lily
VAN DER KAAP, Albert
VAN DER KNIJFF, Jarno
VAN DIESEN, Antony
WARD, Lawson
YASANA, Ace

YEAR 11

ALEXANDER, Dani

ARMSTRONG, Jake

BOULTON, Chloe

BRONOWICKI, Elizabeth

BUCK, Chloe

CHADWICK, Angel-May

CLARK, Callum

CURTIS, Katie

DALE, Ashlee

DALLEY, Hayden

DISARNO, Mario

DUDLEY, Oscar

EASTWOOD, James

FORD, Aliya

FORD-MASON, Calen

GIACOMELLI, Jayde

GUDGIN, Lydia

HART, Abigail

HART, Eleanor

HEALEY, Alli

HERBSTREIT, April

HODSON, Jack

HUTTON, Aleka

JAMES, Hannah

JEANES, Julia

LI, Junlin

MCPHEE, Jesse

MORGAN, Tayah

PETERS, Chloe

RAEBURN, Lilli

REIDY, Ryan

RESTALL, Charlotte

ROBBIE, Liviah

ROUGHLEY, Georgia

SANDERSON, Owen

SCOTT, Zachary

SMITH, Kyah

STEVENS, Emily

STUCHBERY, Beau

TATLOW, Livvi

TRAN, Cindy

TURNER, Riley

WADDELL, Cody

WARD, Ammelie

WHITTINGHAM, Kane

ZHAO, Bob

YEAR 12

ANDERSON, Will

BARRON, Jemma

BATCHELOR, Holly

BOUCHER, Chloe

BRAGG, Luke

BUTLER, Alyssa

CADDIE, James

CAMERON, Alex

CASTLES-RAY, Blake

COLLINS, Sebastian

COX, Megan

CRADDOCK, Rebecca

DAVIS, Lani

DE HOEDT, Seth

DOYLE, Molly

DUNLOP, Noah

EDEN, Kai

EVELEIGH, Hendrik

FISHER, Ellena

FITZGERALD, Kia

FLYNN, Charlie

GAGALOWICZ, Ian

GALPIN, Xavier

GASKELL, Zac

GILL, Mankaran

GREENWOOD, Kelsey

GRIMSEY, Marcus

HOOD, Georgia

HOXLEY, Casey

INGRAM, Callum

KEARSLEY, Ruby

KELLOW, Jet

KOLJO, Ryan

KYNOCH, Leah

MCANINLY, Bailey

MCCANN, Gabrielle

MCCOLE, Abby

MCGRATH, Jack

MCKEOWN, Blake

MCKERRELL, Skye

MILLER, Kobe

MONTANT, Colby

MORSE, Breanna

MOXHAM, Sarah

O'BRIEN, Kaitlin

PEREZ, Aron James

POYNTER, Corey

SHIEFFELBEIN, Kacee

SMITH-CURTIS, Ebony

SONNEMAN MATHIESON, Aidan

SQUIRES, Michael

SRIKARAN, Metha

ST JOHN, Leo

STEVENS, Elizabeth

STORER, Bree

TURNLEY, Samuel

VAN DER SCHAAF, Clay

WALKER, Wren

WEBSTER, Madison

WESTHORPE, Molly

WILLIAMS, Aiden

WOODWARD, Caitlin

Dates to remember