Student Work

Students showcase their work from home. 

Patterson River Secondary College students continue to amaze but not surprise our college community with their diligence and commitment to their school work. Again this week, we are showcasing only a sample of the outstanding work submitted to their teachers.

Art

Year 7 and 8 students created a colour wheel from items at home.

Year 10 's clever Studio Art

Laboratory Skills

Year 9 student, Millie L, demonstrates her laboratory skills in lockdown.  This week's experiment was comparing the amount of protein in different milks.

Food Studies

Year 9 food studies students' task was to 'challenge yourself with breakfast or brunch'.

Year 8 were also asked to make an appetising breakfast.

Year 12

This week, our year 12 Food Studies students took on the challenge of baking a bread at home. Monkey Bread (in the photos) is made by layering two elements: balls of bread dough and layers of a spicy, grainy mix. The recipe provided is super easy and bread making can be a great ‘mindfulness’ activity for the members of your family. I have provided you the recipe so why not set up a family challenge and make a few loaves. I would love you to share photos of your success for our next newsletter. Send your photos to klo@prsc.vic.edu.au or your child can send me photos through teams. Happy Baking everyone!

Chris Kloas, Year 12 Food Studies teacher

English

From the view of a seagull 

The waves crashed into the rocks below, nowhere near the safe height and distance the seagull was soaring at, it banked right then suddenly plunged into the freezing cold water below and coming back up with a small fish in its beak. It cocked its head back and ate the fish, then flew back up as a shadowy shape started to appear in the fog. It was a cold early morning, and as usual the seagull was hunting for food. But this time it was hovering in the air, hesitant if the strange shape was a danger to it. It knew the enormous shape always passed by in and out of the bay, but that was only because the gull hunted on the left side of the bay. This time it tried the middle because that was always where the fish were, hiding under the strange shapes passing by to the treacherous rip at the entrance of the bay. Then and again, it never got a good look at the strange shapes.

 It decided to stay a safe distance but close enough to observe the enormous masses that pass by every day. The seagull glided into a higher air current and observed the giant mass that was headed to the dangerous rip at the entrance, it noticed that it carried a large variety of boxes that creaked whenever the shape moved. It also noticed some small fast shapes moving with the ship, one came by the side of the big shape and a human came out and climbed up the side. The seagull guessed there was something in the huge containers that needed to be delivered somewhere, it didn’t question it. The seagull swooped upwards to avoid flying into one of the containers on the shape, well that was enough exploring for the day. The seagull flew into an updraft and soared high above, then it flew down into the wide ripples the shape had made splashing through the waves. After a successful feed the seagull returned to its nest.

by Grace B. Year 8

Charlie K from Year 8 designed a brochure about Point Nepean where the novel, Falling from Grace by Jane Godwin is set.

Design Technology

In our return to remote learning this term, the Year 7 & 8 student’s first task was a challenge with paper planes. Students had to build a paper plane that would fly a long distance, fly in the air for a long time, or return to them while flying. It was an enjoyable hands-on task that allowed students to work with other family members and away from the computer. It was also an opportunity for some to be creative and experiment. The task required students to decide on a design, construct, test and evaluate their paper planes, with some great results.

Time - Shannon

Distance -  Madeleine

Return - Jordan