Author: suzannewiles
//This week 10 of our students did Try A Trade with Skillhire in Forrestfield.
They learned carpentry, paving and bricklaying – building a paved area with a wall and picket fence around it.
They had a great time and learned about scholarship opportunities offered by the Construction Training Fund to support their pathway into the construction industry.
They had a blast!
Sarah Cooke
Careers Advisor
//Below are some photos from the interschool surfing comp held at Scarborough Tuesday. Tricky conditions but Maxen Horwood and Tristan Hearmon came out winners of the junior surfing and will be competing next final in the state school titles. The girls have their competition this Friday.
Karry Plummer
Teacher – Health & Physical Education
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Overall Results
100m Ultimate Champions: Sholai Cantwell & Michael Nilsson
////Sunday 28 August
10.00am – 3.00pm
Join us on campus and discover how we can help you reach your study and career goals. Explore campus life, talk to our students, leading academics and graduates, and experience all that UWA has to offer.
By registering to attend, you’ll go into the draw for a chance to win plenty of prizes including $1000 travel gift cards and runner up merch packs!
https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/Explore-UWA-Day
Sarah Cooke
Careers Advisor
//As part of the Year 11 outdoor recreation certificate. Students got to abseil and climb on natural rock surfaces.
Below are some photos of the students doing just that!
Karry Plummer
Teacher – Health & Physical Education
//On Tuesday 2nd of August, 2022, eight students from Year 8 and 9 competed in the Frank Drysdale Secondary Interschool Numero Challenge at Aranmore College. This event sees students compete against other schools individually and in teams of 4. The students improve on their mental maths by building scores using numbered cards and mathematical operations against the clock.
Year 8 participants:
James Hussey, Henry McParland, Lucas Fleay, Liam Parkins
Year 9 Participants:
Daniel Nievelstein, Jacob Atkinson, Joshwa Ruiz, Ela Pradhan
The students competed well and thoroughly enjoyed the day and both teams finished in a very respectable position of 12th and 13th. A massive thank you must go to Mr Buckley and the year 11 students of Ben Lyon, Josh Craig and Thomas McIntyre who have been helping to coach the students during lunchtimes leading up to the event.
Super work by all involved and let’s get practising ready for next year.
Adam Merrifield
//The girls played really well as a team, with particularly impressive performances from Olivia le Roux, Emma Knight, Charla Hall and Mykaela Shadbolt.
Unfortunately the Swan Christian team (with their tremendous height and two ACC All Star players!) were too strong for us, and our girls were beaten 26-48 and therefore knocked out of the competition. In true “Eagles” style though, this score line wasn’t really reflective of the game – with our girls playing a huge second quarter to bring the deficit back to one goal! Sadly the Swan Christian team went up a gear in the second half and we found it difficult to match them.
The girls have had a fantastic season and it’s been really pleasing to see the way they have come together as a team over the last few months.
Jaime Jenkin
Sports Coordinator/Teacher – Health and Physical Education
//The Yr 12 ATAR Music Students have studied Requiem Masses as part of the Historical and Cultural Perspectives content of their course.
They will be looking at an Indigenous Requiem Mass titled “Eumeralla” which shares some of the traditional movements of a Requiem Mass such as the Kyrie Eleison and Dies Irae.
The students will be examining similarities and differences between this War Requiem for Peace and the Britten War Requiem which is their Designated Work.
The Eumeralla river flows through Gunditjmara country in southwest Victoria. It was here, 180 years ago, that war broke out between traditional owners and those who sought to dispossess them of their land. Combining moving poetry, four choirs, orchestra and the platform of the Requiem mass, a history of heartbreak and horror is revealed in this monumental work. With a fusion of Western classical tradition and First Nations culture, Eumeralla soars with resilience and reconciliation. Eumeralla is sung in dialects of the Gunditjmara people of southwestern Victoria. Eumeralla: a war requiem for peace.
Andrea Stimson
Director of Music
