Duncraig Secondary Snapshot

It’s affirmative, our debate teams are ready to state their case in the Western Australian Debating League! Our first novice team consisting of Mackenzie Varcoe, Scarlet Windsor, Ruby Callaghan and Lily Porter took home the win against Iona’s team last night in the very first debate for the term. Cool, calm and collected; these girls spoke with confidence and worked as a cohesive team. Our other debating teams are busy preparing for their turn, assembling their arguments and refining their rebuttals!

Hannah Dans and Howie Jakeway

Can you help the Mowamjum Aboriginal Community make hill trolleys??

We are seeking donations of old bike helmets, knee and elbow pads to assist the students in Mowamjum community to experience the thrill of hill trolleys.

No hills in Mowamjum!!

It doesn’t matter, they have that covered, all they need is the resources.

Please donate if you have any of the above items at home and you are no longer using them.

Donations can be given to your child’s teacher for collection.

 

 

As you are aware Government COVID Regulations require that parents do not come on campus at present. We are pleased to be able to hold Student-Parent-Teacher Interviews for Year 12 students in an online platform, and these will be held as planned on Monday 14 March, commencing at 4:00pm. This is an opportunity for you to discuss your child’s progress with their teachers. Interviews are 10 minutes long and there will be sessions from: 4:00pm – 8:00pm. We encourage students to be present with you to participate in the interview.

The interviews will be held online using your child’s Microsoft Teams account. At the time of your booked interviews, you need to have logged into the Teams Application using your child’s login details (we recommend that you use the App, and not the web based interface). You will be called by each teacher via Teams at your nominated interview time. Please enable both the video and microphone functions in the Teams ‘Calls’ tab. Please be aware that teachers will need to keep the interview strictly to the time allocated so that they can call the next family, and will be using their device clock which is centrally synced.

When booking, please check your child’s timetable in SEQTA for the subjects taught by each available teacher. To book your interview time please go to: Parent Portal

Then:

• Plan the Term > Select Interview Booking
• Login to EdInfo (Simply select login)
• Select Interviews
• Select Student from the drop down menu
• Select available appointment time
• Print Timetable

Your username and password for the bookings is the same as you use for applications accessible through the portal i.e. SEQTA. If you have forgotten your username or password, please submit a ticket at:  ICT Help

You will notice that some staff have an additional time slot available during the week; this is for teachers with a large number of Year 12 students.  Year 12 students will be attending school during the week, so instead of calling your child’s Teams account for one of these mid-week meetings, the teacher will call the mobile phone of the parent who is listed first in SEQTA and hold a phone interview.

Please note that bookings will close on 13 March at 4pm. If you are unable to book a time slot with a teacher, please contact the teacher via email.

Thank you for your support as we navigate through the challenges of this year together as a community.

 

Dear Parents and Guardians

A big part of St Stephen’s School’s holistic education is about preparing our students for the world beyond School. Whether it be via an academic pathway or vocational route, we work closely with each student to understand their interests and strengths and guide them toward success.

Last year we reached out to our parent community asking for support with our Career Expo, Career Conversations and Work Experience and many of you volunteered your time and expertise, which was fantastic. I would like to extend the same invitation again this year. Would you be willing to be involved any of the following:

• Presenting to a group of students about your job/industry
• Providing Work Experience placements for our students – one day a week or a one week placement
• Chatting to students about your career pathway at our Career Conversations event in November

Specific details are included below. If you would like to volunteer to be involved in any of the above, or would like to chat about any further opportunities for our students, please get in touch with our Careers Adviser, Sarah Cooke at sarah.cooke@ststephens.wa.edu.au. We would love to hear from you.

Regards

Dr Darnelle Pretorius

Head of Campus

Y10 undertaking a marine epifauna study to classify marine organisms. Most students discovered at least one organism they had never seen before!

 

Wednesday we snorkelled at Mettams Pool with both our Y12 General and ATAR students and got to see an octopus, nudibranch (little colourful sea slug) and had beautiful conditions to practice our skills!

Courtney Wood

Teacher – Science and Learning Enrichment

 

Thursday the  Y11 General class did a fish eye dissection and pictured is Saffron who dissected this eye herself and did a perfect job!

Courtney Wood

Teacher – Science

Congratulations  to Josh Davies (Year 12) who has been selected in the U18 Australian National Baseball squad

Josh is one of 44 players to be selected with a view to representing Australia at the U-18 World Cup in Florida in August 2022

Josh is also part of the Elite Athlete Program run at the school.

Matt Richmond

Head of Learning Area – Health & Physical Education

Sadly the ACC have cancelled all the divisional swimming Carnivals for 2022

So yesterday, Monday was the last training session for our amazing swimmers.

Such a shame they won’t get to compete after the great start we had to our training program.

Matt Richmond

Head of Learning Area Health & Physical Education