Duncraig Secondary Snapshot

Learning about bushfire prone areas, what can fuel the fires and how they impact ecosystems and communities was part of the Year 11 Geography excursion to Perth’s hills recently. Seeing the areas firsthand enabled students to assess fuel hazard risks and examine how the landscape and land management can affect fire behaviour.

Dr Rina Fu who visited the Year 11s recently to talk about the Christian Worldview and share the amazing story of how God provided a miracle in her family.

The students were very interested in what she had to say.

Andrea Tinney

Teacher – Bibilical Studies

Well done to all the students that entered the various competitions during the recent HASS Week.

Below are the results:

Economics – political cartoons on Covid-19 subject matter was wither Vaccine led recovery or Business responses during Covid.

1^st – Yr 8 Alyssa Hardingham (Carana)

2^nd – Yr 10 Tessa Daly (Carana)

3^rd – Yr 10 Isobel Naidoo (Carana)

HASS concepts Winner – Yr 10 Lucy Jones (Alethea) (first page only of document)

Geography –  Poster competition on units studied in Geography such as liveability and sustainability.

1^st – Yr 10  Jasminder Sanger (Alethea)

2^nd – Yr 7 Liam Parkins (Alethea)

3^rd – Yr 10 Josh Craig (Alethea)

History – Describe your most memorable moment/event in history. 30 entries and they were all really well done.

Top 3 prize winners are:

Yr 9 Harley Greer (Alethea)– the Normandy D-Day landings as they turned the tide against Hitler and needed incredible strategic planning to achieve this victory

Yr 8 Crockett Groves (Alethea)- 1876 – when the microphone was invented which allowed more people to hear singers and for more people to hear speeches (Martin Luther King – I have a dream speech).

Yr 8 Matthew Aubrey (Alethea) – The invention of the first plane by the Wright brothers and the fact that Neil Armstrong took a piece of the Wright Flyer to the moon

Honourable  mentions for the history competition

Yr 10 Tahlia Papworth (Alethea) – the person Violet Jessop who survived the sinking of the titanic, and two other ships being bombed at sea during WW1 and acted as a nurse in WW1.

Yr 8 Louis Velios (Alethea)– for when the Black Death happened because of how people coped with such a disease without the knowledge we have today.

Yr 9 Nathan Tastula – for when Spiderman was invented

Yr 8 Hiten Gopal (Timea) – the invention of the electric roadster by Elon Musk

Yr 9 Liam Harrington (Alethea) – The romans form of Testudo style of fighting because it was so advanced for its time.

PARENTS:

Many students come home from school and end up just waiting until they might ‘feel’ like doing schoolwork. Or else they drag everything out over the whole night. A much better way is each night have set allocated times for home learning. Many students find that learning in 20-30 minute blocks works well for them. During this time students should review work done at school first to make sure that they understand it fully. If they have questions, they can email their teacher to get clarification. Once they have done that, they should then focus on completing their homework or work on any assignments or upcoming tests. All distractions should be removed during this time, so students learn to focus for 20-30 minute blocks of time. It is a great idea to make a timetable of the home learning and place it on the fridge so everyone is clear when students are focusing and when they are doing other activities or having free time.

STUDENTS: Some of the benefits for students of having set times allocated for home learning are:

• You are more likely to learn at home if you know when to start and when to end.
• You will be more effective when you remove distractions and learn to focus for 20-30 minute blocks.
• In all the times NOT allocated to schoolwork you can do whatever you like without feeling guilty about it.
• Having set times stops arguments between students and parents as everyone has agreed when the timeslots allocated to students will be.
• You know that you are definitely doing enough work for school.
• Keeping your home learning and personal life separate means you will be able to manage all of the distractions in your life and still complete your work for school.

Learn more this year about how to improve your results and be more efficient and effective with your schoolwork by working through the units on www.studyskillshandbook.com.au . You can also print a sheet outlining independent learning activities (click on the More menu then on Things to Print). Our school’s access details are:

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Sarah Cooke

Careers Advisor