ASSORTED NEWS
YEAR 7 EXPERIMENTING IN SCIENCE
Our Year 7 students experimenting with Temperature and Particle Motion and Bunsen Burners.
YEAR 8 GEOGRAPHY
Year 8 Geography are learning about the water cycle as part of their 'Water in the World' topic. This week the students were imagining they were a drop of water flowing through the cycle. Each bead represented a different part of the water cycle, eg. groundwater, ocean, river, plants, etc. At each station the students added a colour and rolled a dice to see which part of the cycle they headed to next.
SHROVE TUESDAY
On Tuesday 21 February we celebrated 'Shrove Tuesday'. Shrove comes from the word 'shrive', which means to give absolution after hearing confession. Shrove Tuesday is the day when people went to confession to prepare themselves for Lent, which begins the following day, Ash Wednesday.
We celebrated by selling yummy pancakes with all proceeds raised being donated to 'Project Compassion'.
AGRICULTURE NEWS - OUR STEERS HAVE ARRIVED !
St Johns are taking part in the 2023 South Coast Beef ‘Schools Steer Spectacular’. Select students in years 10, 11 and 12 Agriculture classes are challenged with looking after and training 2 South Devon steers that have been kindly provided by Lee Pippard of ‘Tannoch South Devons’.
With months of preparation and learning ahead of us we are all very excited for the skills and knowledge we will gain under various mentors from the beef cattle industry in the South Coast. Students and steers will take part in the 2023 Steer School Specular in May at the Nowra Showgrounds. Keep an eye out for exciting updates on the progress of our St John’s Steer spectacular Show Team.
