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…
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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.
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…
Ceramics – A Reflection!
This semester, I have been taking Ceramic Hand Building as an elective. This elective is run by Mrs Elscot, and is a mixed class of Year 9s and 10s. Throughout this course, we have learned how to make pinch, coil, and slab pots, and learned some key ceramic skills such as how to join clay,…
School Statistics: A Math Project
You know how in Math, how you usually learn the formula, get tested on it, and then forget it in 2 weeks? Yeah, that was our first math assessment for the term. But our second assessment seemed to take a turn on the typical test format. We had to do a project. Linked below is…
Art Time- Come on, grab your friends!
In Year 8, one of our goals is to use your capabilities. In this post, I will be talking about a project I am proud of that used my capabilities. In Project X, you get 5 rotations: Media, Art, Music, Drama, and Dance. In my last rotation, I got art, and found it fun so…
2020 so far…
When I first headed into 2020, I never thought that I would end up in the middle of a global pandemic. While adjusting to a completely different life was hard, it also provided me with a chance to reflect and learn. Personally, I learnt that: *I realised how much I prefer doing things online- as…
Health Term 4 2019
This term in Health, we have covered the following topics: Empathy– Being able to put yourself in other peoples shoes. Respect– Being able to accept that your opinion is your own, and other people’s opinions may not be right, but it’s their opinion. Critical Thinking– Don’t believe everything that you see or hear. Responsibility– You…
Newspaper Job
Two months ago, I got a job working for the Fremantle Herald. I was originally going to do it myself, but my brother offered to chip in if he got 40 percent of the wage. My brother and I both get usually 16 dollars a month combined for around 4 hours of work. This might…