Other School News

Mr Zach Alexakos

IT Teacher

ASX Stockmarket Game One, 2019

Game one for 2019 finished last week with 70 participants involved in buying, selling and researching the markets.  Some of our new traders achieved excellent investment returns for the see-sawing three month period.  

Congratulations to Brooke-Lynn Rees and Danielle Hammond for achieving 1st place at North Geelong SC and top 100 status in Victoria.  With 18,918 syndicates participating across Australia the competition was intense.  

Well done to all participants and we look forward to Game Two, which starts in early August.  

Linda Castle

LOTE Teacher

 

The Year 8 B and C combined Japanese class created ‘kyarakuta bento’(Character lunch boxes) in class on Tuesday. This was the culmination of their ‘Food in Japan’ unit of study, which covered typical foods of Japan, the language and customs around ordering food in a restaurant and at home, and the language involved in creating and following recipes in Japanese. Students researched the phenomenon of ‘kyara ben’, the cute, but nutritionally balanced, lunch boxes made for children in Japan by their families which usually include a recognisable anime or manga character. This particularly applies for schools which do not have ‘kyushoku’ (provided school lunches). After analysing the main components of the typical ‘kyara ben’ they devised their own ‘kyara ben’, creating their own recipes and translating them into Japanese.

Some of the finished products included the following: