AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION

The Geography competition was offered to selected Year 10 students. The competition is a multiple choice assessment of students’ geographical knowledge and skills. The results were impressive with multiple students receiving 100% in the knowledge category!

Notable achievements in this competition include;

 Well done to all students for taking part!

GEOSNAP COMPETITION

 MY LOCAL LANDMARK COMPETITION

The recent GeoSnap Competition theme was ‘Sunsets and Sunrises’. Below are two outstanding entries.

The final theme for the year is ‘Weather’.

Students are also encouraged to take images of local landmarks for the 'My Local Landmark' competition run by ABC education. Year 7 students will be encouraged to enter images they took during the ‘Landscapes and Landforms’ photo essay task in Term 2. Click here for more information.

YEAR 10 HISTORY ELECTIVE PROJECTS

As part of the Year 10 History Elective course students engaged in a Historical Investigation of their choice. The purpose of the task was to develop students' research and analysis skills in history whilst allowing students to explore their historical interests.

Students demonstrated their varied interests in different historical time periods, people and events by choosing a wide range of topics.

Some of these included the Influence of the Japanese aristocracy in the Heian period, the Impact of Martin Bryant's crime on Australian gun laws today, the historical importance and influence of Ancient Greece's progress in civilization, politics and world views, The life and Crimes of Ivan Milat, an investigation into the most powerful female Pirate Madame Cheng and the glorification of Bonnie and Clyde, to name a few. 

Students were inspired by their research to create a museum piece that represents an aspect of their investigation and demonstrated creativity, inquiry and challenge throughout the task, producing amazing pieces for display.

HSC 2021 (STARTING HSC)

Year 12, 2021 have begun their HSC courses. Students are really enjoying their new topics. Some engaging activities have included Aboriginal studies starting to research their major project. Topics this year include Art, Dance, Family History and Indigenous Food. 

They also enjoyed preparing for NAIDOC held today. One activity they have planned is the creation of a rainbow serpent through the quad outside Gooroon.  

The Legal Studies class experienced a virtual excursion to the State Library. On Wednesday, John Lamont from NowChem is presenting via zoom to the Business Studies class and History Extension have an upcoming day to prepare for their individual research project.