Westall Secondary College Newsletter

WELC Report

Message from the WELC Coordinator

- Ms. Carmela Santucci

As we come to the end of Term 4, WELC would like to acknowledge all our students for the effort and progress they have made whilst studying at the Language Centre. We would also like to congratulate the following students who received an award at the Westall College Awards Assembly held on Friday 30th November:

 

MOST IMPROVED AWARD

  • Sopheathida S
  • Sam D
  • Trinh M
  • Sanuthi P
  • Jiarui L

 

EXCELLENCE AWARD

  • Minh Duy (Harry) N
  • Minh Thu (Sarah) N

 

The end of the year is always a busy time at school as many WELC students, having completed their 20 weeks Intensive English Course at the Language Centre, are preparing to transition to a mainstream secondary college. As Westall English Language Centre is located at Westall Secondary College, students are already familiar with the expectations of secondary school in Victoria.

 

Before leaving the Language Centre, all students will have had an Orientation Day at their mainstream school. A visit to their school includes meeting their teachers, classmates and choosing subjects they will study in 2019. On their return to the Language Centre, it is wonderful to hear the excitement in the conversations as students talk about their experience. This is what the teachers at WELC aim to do; that is, prepare the Language Centre students as best as possible for a smooth transition to a mainstream school.

 

WELC would like to wish all our students, families and community a safe and happy holiday. To those students not returning to the Language Centre we wish you good luck in your future studies.

 

Ms. Carmela Santucci

Students in their English Lessons

WELC IT Elective Class with Ms. Katerina Tetoros

 

by Peter L

In the IT elective class at WELC, we had to make a 2-4 minute motivational video using the app Movie Maker. The topic was: “Today Should Be World ___________ Appreciation Day.”

 

Students were free to choose a topic. For example, if the students wanted to choose ice-cream their title would be: “Today should be World Ice-Cream Appreciation Day.”  They then had to find pictures and think of reasons that would motivate and persuade the audience to agree. Two of the requirements were, to work with a partner and each team had to choose a different topic to explore. This involved using the internet to research for information.

 

Some examples of the topics the students in our class chose were: Basketball, Sport, Friendship and Opponents. For me, I worked with Samer and we chose reading as our topic, so our title was: “Today Should Be World Reading Appreciation Day”.

 

This is what we did.

  • Gave 10 reasons why there should be a World Reading Appreciation Day.
  • Researched for images on the internet to complement our message, such as comics, novels, magazines…
  • Used the software program MS Movie Maker to create the video clip.
  • Added music into the video clip.
  • Double checked for content and imagery, including animation and slide transitions.

After that, we saved it into an .mp4 movie.

 

Our teacher, Miss Tetoros, was very proud of all our efforts. Our video clips were screened in class for peer review by the other students, and they will also be screened during WELC’s graduation Day at the end of the term.

 

Peter Le

Students in their English Lessons

Group 4 Maths Lesson

Students in Group 4 Maths incorporated their measurement skills in preparing a celebration for a class member.

 

Ms. Esther Chow

WELC Teacher 

 

MY BREAKFAST PARTY

This morning we had a breakfast party in A6 because I’m going back to my country, Sri Lanka this week. For breakfast, Ms Chow made sultana banana pancakes. She used 1 cup self-raising flour, 1 cup milk, 1 egg , 2 tablespoons sugar, half cup sultanas and one banana.

 

First, Tuana mashed the banana, Routing beat the egg with milk. Ms Chow mixed the self-raising flour, sultanas, mashed bananas, sugar, egg and milk well. Then she heated up an electric frypan and added a little butter. She dropped a big spoonful of the pancake mixture into the frypan. After that, she turned over the pancake and cooked it for a few minutes.

 

After making all the pancakes, we sat down and had the pancakes with maple syrup. We also ate some fruits like watermelon, strawberries, mangoes and kiwi fruit. We had a wonderful breakfast together. The pancakes were delicious.

 

Following that, all the students and teacher gave me presents and I gave them a bar of chocolate. I like my teachers and my friends in WELC and I will miss them all very much.

 

Written by Sanuthi Perera (Group 4 Maths)

Students in their English Lessons