Secondary News
VCAL Mid Year Certificate
Congratulations to Madison Walton who recently completed her VCAL Senior Certificate. She popped in this week to collect her Certificate and is now officially finished with school! Well done Madison!
VCAL Personal Development
Over the last few weeks the VCAL class have been devoting time to assisting Kelvin Williams on improving the school yard by planting out empty garden beds, adding some colour for all of us to enjoy.
Year 7 Science
Year 7 young scientists are investigating the taxonomy of plants and animals at Edenhope. They have started their skills through sorting and classifying living and non-living things. Applying their everyday life skill in science, students have been classifying pasta and demonstrated their ability to make a flow chart to move forward to create a family tree.
They are classifying sea and land creatures at different classes based on their features and investigating any new creatures in the local habitation.
Year 8 English
Mr Bucknell's Year 8 English students were asked to write about 'What does it mean to be a hero?' Here are a couple of the students responses.
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘hero’? You might think of people with superpowers, like Superman or Wonder Woman. You might think of people with cool gadgets, like Ironman or Batman. Maybe people who saved a galaxy, like Star Lord. But is that really what a hero is? Think about all these people. What do they have in common? They all help people.
Examples of real heroes are doctors, nurses and paramedics. They help the wounded and the sick, and can even prevent people from dying. There are firefighters who stop things from burning down, like houses and other buildings, farms and forests, and rescue people as well. Activists can be heroes, too. They can raise awareness, and even raise money to help people in need. They can change a bad thing just by telling people about it.
A hero can even just be a person who helps others. If someone drops their things, they’ll help them pick it up. If someone gets hurt, they’ll help them. If someone can’t carry something, they’ll help, or even do it for them. Even the smallest acts of kindness can be very heroic.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you have special powers, or you saved hundreds of lives. You don’t have to save the city, the planet, the galaxy or the universe. Being a hero can just be helping others even though they never asked. Maybe you raised awareness for something. Perhaps you’re a doctor or a firefighter. Either way, the only power you need is kindness. Anyone can be a hero if you’re kind enough.
Kitana Castignani, Year 8
To be a hero means to put others needs in front of your own, putting yourself at risk to save someone from danger, being selfless enough for people to trust and have hope in you even at your worst moment, using your abilities to able others, caring the same, having devotion and dedication, standing up for what you believe in, trying to benefit others when you pay the cost, having a try at anything to help or rescue someone, having a heart of gold and handing it out to people whose hearts have been empty, denying safety or help because you know what is right. That is what makes you a hero.
Elouise Smith-Ralph, Year 8
Outdoor Recreation Elective
Outdoor Recreation students have undertaken a scavenger hunt around the school.
