In semester 2 I did Muir as one of my electives. Muir is an outdoor ed subject where you do orienteering, archery, and snorkeling and there is a camp at the end of the subject in Rotto. My goals for this subject was to learn about orienteering, like knowing how to navigate my way by…Continue Reading Muir 2022
In art this semester it was sculpture and casting and we were told that we were making amulets and talismans. We learnt what they were and what they mean to different people. And we got to make our own. The first thing we did was practice carving, we did this on a soap. My first…Continue Reading Amulet in art
In health this term we have been doing drivers ed and I have learnt I a lot. For this assessment I drink driving and we made posters and a short clip. in our posters it has all the info and statistics. i have learnt all the facts about drink driving and how unsafe it is…Continue Reading Drink Driving
The challenge we were given was to build an earthquake proof building from uncooked spaghetti pasta and BlueTack. The structure had a minimum dimension of 60cm tall and maximum 30 cm wide. We started by doing research into earthquake safe buildings and how they were made. We found that the use of triangles was common…Continue Reading Science- Earthquake Building
In year 9 I chose visual arts as my elective and we painted an apple. When I first heard we were painting I was a little scared as I have not painted before and was worried about it as I have only ever done drawings. Before we started our painting we practiced blending and mixing…Continue Reading Visual Art – Apple Painting
To be perfectly honest, I hated camp. I felt as though I had better things to do at home and missed all the water polo tryouts held on the days I had camp. However, I feel that camp was a valuable experience that taught me more about the leadership characteristics in myself. The chance to…Continue Reading Camp year 9
In the great bake off we baked a variety of different foods. One of the foods was a celebration cake and mine was an Easter cake. This was a part of a function that was shared through the school community. Another event that we held was a grazing table. My group served cake pops and…Continue Reading The Great Bake Off
In this project, we learned about the principles of justice that uphold Australia’s legal system, such as the presumption of innocence, an impartial judiciary, and the right to legal representation. I studied the case of Andrew Mallard and analyzed how these principles were both upheld and violated in this case. After writing an essay on…Continue Reading Andrew Mallard