Muir is an outdoor education course that involves fun outdoor experiences including Snorkelling, Orienteering, and Archery. Through this course, we learnt many key skills that we can apply to so many aspects of life. Term 3 – Orienteering & Archery Orienteering is a sport that involves using a map and compass to locate markers or […]
Road Safety Campaign
Road Safety Campaign – https://sway.office.com/RefVYVhOCVqfCj9O?ref=Link What were the biggest things you learnt while completing this task? There were many things I learnt whilst completing this task on Road Safety. I think one of the main things I learnt is how large of an issue youth drink driving is, when you think about drink driving you […]
Earthquake Resistant Building – Engineering Challenge 2021
For our final science assessment this year we were posed an Engineering Challenge. This challenge consisted of a team of three – designing, constructing and testing a small scale quick, and easy to assemble building that is able to withstand a simulated major earthquake. This had to be on a budget of under $60 with […]
Lock – Capabilities & Reflection
This semester in Outdoor Education – Lock I have developed many capabilities including organization, ethics, collaboration and loads more. In the Lock course, we participated in different activities such as Rock Climbing, Bush Cooking and a small 3-day camp where I used and developed these capabilities. Organization – On this camp, organization was a major […]
Leadership Growth from Y9 OLP
Whilst I was completing the 2.5km hike, the capability I improved on the most was leadership. This 2.5 km wasn’t easy and was a challenge for some people. People had to face some challenges, like their legs being tired, the creek being hard to cross, and most of all, motivation. This caused us to move […]
Forced Perspective
In this task we were challenge to use perspective to make a small object seem large and create a story with it. To do this we used a large F-stop, and held the object closer to the camera and positioned the model standing on normal ground further away to make the illusion that the character […]
Toy Photograph
In this photo we had to use a small prop/toy and fit it into the real world or make it look larger. We did this using certain blur of the background and zoom. I like how it looks like the car is on top of a hill or mountain, I also like the lighting in […]
Levitation
This task was really fun! We were challenged to find and create a photo including some sort of levitation, for this we used a very fast shutter speed so that the photo would capture quickly. I like how this photo has a story line that you can tell, that the boy was sitting in his […]
Light Graffiti
In this task we used a extremely slow shutter speed so that our camera would take in a lot of light, and we used torches, fairy light and other light up items to make “Graffiti” out of light. I like how in this photo the light almost resembles wings, although it would be better if […]
Gene Gibson Case Essay Improvement
In this project, we learnt 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 Gene Gibson, and analysed how these principles were both upheld and violated in this case. After writing an essay on […]