Connected 7 – 1st place

It’s that time of the year again: cozy blankets, hot chocolate, and art. For this year’s Connected fundraising art contest which is organised by the art department. This year for Connected, I submitted 3 art pieces, and one of them (Multiplicity, which is in the middle below) won. It was an honour to win, and…

Innovation and Leadership: End of Semester Reflection

This semester, for the 9/10 Leadership and Innovation elective, I have had the opportunity to work on a “Creative Toy Task” – this consisted of designing an educational creative toy to be marketed and sold to the wider community during the Wanju Market. All of the 4 members of our group played to their strengths:…

Health assessment!

This year in Health, we are learning how to drive! It’s a bit scary. As a part of learning how to drive, we have to make a road safety campaign targeting young people. I chose to focus on distracted driving, and I made a little comic! The biggest thing I learned while completing this task…

My Working Future

I am curious to work possibly as a clinical or school psychologist, but generally I know I would like to go into psychology. Tasks associated with the occupation include Providing counselling to clients to help them make changes to their behaviour. Identifying and diagnosing mental, behavioural or emotional disorders. Developing treatment plans. Conducting research through…

My Learning

Since starting my journey at the College in 2019, I have learned so much. Currently, my favourite subject is Visual Arts. I enjoy the autonomy and creative freedom that I get with it. Currently, I study the core subjects, and my electives currently are just visual arts. My learning goals for the future are maintaining…

Innovation and Leadership – A reflection!

Have you ever had innovation as a class? Well, this semester, 11 kids from the Year 9 and 10 cohorts undertook a Innovation and Leadership elective provided by the College. In the first week of Leadership and Innovation, we reflected on our strengths and passions. We learned that businesses are effective when they are based…

Spaghetti Science!

Our last assessment for Year 9 science- but it’s not your usual one.

Girls Programming Network

Earlier this month, five girls from All Saint’s (including me) went to Edith Cowan University. We learnt about Markov chains, and even had a go at coding them in Python! Now you might be thinking, Taryn, what exactly is a Markov chain? It’s basically a sequence of things where the last thing (it could be…

Connected 6 – Winner’s Perspective (again)

Every year in the first semester, the lovely Ms Elscot runs Connected 6. Connected 6 is an art competiton open to students of the college, and their friends. This year, I won the Year 9 category, with an original painting of my dog. The theme for this year was Ox, due to this year being…