Technologies

Year 10 Caring For Children

The highlight of the year for the Year 10 students studying Caring For Children occurred last Friday, with the making of rice babies! Many years ago, my son came home from kindy with a rice baby that he’d made and I immediately appreciated it (as a parent), but also saw the value in the activity (as a teacher). Students spend all of the first term studying pregnancy, conception and birth, so this is a fitting way to round out that theory in a hands-on learning experience. But best of all, it’s so much fun.

Students are asked to find out how much they weighed when they were born and then bring in that quantity of uncooked rice. Everything else is provided for them – stockings, nappies, a blanket, ribbons and eyes, and even a dummy. This is a learning activity that has been going on every year at the College for about 16 years. There are many, many St Norbert rice babies in our community!

Mrs S Mark (Head of Learning Area - Technologies)

Making scrubs

The Food Science and Textiles departments have continued to be a hive of activity both during and after school, generating everything from spinach triangles to scrubs.  During the last school holidays, Ms Frazier got together with two friends to sew 80 scrub caps for the Helping our Hospital Heroes group, at the height of the COVID-19 preparations. 

"There was still a need for scrub and shoe bags so I sent the email out to staff,'' Ms Frazier explained. "And in just two sewing afternoons, we had made about 80 bags. 

"Thank you to my sewing helpers Ms Mark, Ms Stirling, Ms McKenna, Ms McIntyre, Ms Freind and Ms Rainford, for all their help making the bags for the Helping Our Hospital Heroes group. It was fun to get together in the Textiles room after school and work on the project which will help medical staff stay safe.''

Cooking up a storm

During remote learning, students created some exceptional Food Science projects including Bingo Food Cards, in which they completed challenges such as "Find three recipes with potato as the main ingredient; find four food items in their fridge and arrange them in order of nutrition; alphabetically list and arrange the herbs and spices in the pantry and investigate foods can vegetarians can eat’’.  The result was a well-rounded knowledge of nutrition - and what’s really in the pantry.

The Bingo Food Card participants were:

Year 8

Jack Driscoll, Deena Manlutac, Mia McLean, Luca Moro, Kien Nguyen, Ashton Ricafranca, Amal Suresh, Ella Thuo, Josaiah Webb, Meleina Zeeb, Tatum Cooper, Hannah Honczareko, Suzannah Jeeves, Mitchell Keeley, Syunei Lam, Mekhi Rangitoheriri, Rory Welch, Hannah Brodalka, Talia Cappelluti, Rhiannon Cox, Taylah Creighton, Jaxon de Montille, Ryan Hately, Jessica Le Dain, Mekhi Riley, Logan Sinclair, Jaeda West and Javan Zan.

Year 9

Nicole Alconaba, Cody Balazs, Emily Bates, Glen Brosztl, Kynan Cooksley, Bianca Halton, Isabella Hulm, Edweena Liju, Tanaka Machri, Akeelah Mayhew, Charlie McCrostie, Alisha Poudel, Riley Suckling, Dalila Nikaghanri, Shelley Romano, Amelie Anderson, Sophie Catalano, Kym Dela Cruz, Charlton Empleo, Sophie Griffiths, Jasmin Hill, Irene Joseph, Ashley Mascarenhas, Willow McCulloch and Aleisha Patriarca, Thonnard Arias, Levi Ashcroft-Buck, Selena Barbato, Cassie Best, Jessica Espenlaub, Mitch Hindmarsh, Anissa Holmes, Nicholas Kelly, Jonathan Le, Alison L’Ecluse, Anthony Paradiso, Grace park, Taine Rangitoheriri, Roohani Sharma, Kyla Shepherd, Eliza Terrell, Kaitlin Vandenberg.

Year 10

Adrienne Arias, Ashleigh Bell, Josh Bransby, Charlotte brown, Hans Dimalanta, Lena Hobbs, Kathleen Porter, Guntass Ranu, Shaun Rigden, Katie Tesch, Arwin Tharakan, Orlando Tompkin-Drew, Raphael Amaro, Kale Bowen, Chanmollika Chhim, Stephanie Earsman, Isabella Hancock, Caitlin Pettersen, Abby Smith, Byron Tanner and Abira Wolf.

Creative Cooking Competition

Our last College newsletter featured the many and varied creations entered in the Creative Cooking Competition – sweet and savoury dishes cooked by students at home over three weeks during remote learning.  In a very tight contest, the weekly winners have been announced as follows: