A group of 8 Year 10 students were selected to attend the Science Cafe day held at The University of Western Australia yesterday. The students were treated to presentations by leading academics and their journey in science student also were given the opportunity to talk to young researchers and current UWA students about what they do and the incredible range of opportunities and careers available through the study of the sciences.
Charles Biddle
Head of Learning Area – Science
Excited to expand their experience in electrical work, Year 9 and 10 students from Carramar and Duncraig recently attended the Try A Trade course at the College of Electrical Training. Students were given an introduction to domestic lighting systems and circuits, with the College commending students on their excellent attitude towards the course.
Year 10 Marine Science students harnessed their improvisation skills to create their own ‘mock reef’ in the school grounds to practice their marine sampling techniques. Students used a transect line and quadrats to sample the area for abalone while weighing and measuring a hypothetical fisherman’s catch of abalone.
Jessica Sladden, Year 10, is experiencing a new approach to food service during her work experience at the Swan Valley Gourmet Farm Café. It’s a sustainable farm café that caterers for all kinds of food allergies and diets – it’s even Coeliac Australia Accredited. Jessica has been loving her time learning different skills at this quirky café!
The Year 10 visual art students had an SSS alumni, Sarah Pearn, deliver an oil painting workshop on Monday. It was Sarah who painted the portrait of Glenda Parkin that is on the wall in the Glenda Parkin Learning Centre. Sarah studied Realist Fine Art at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy, after graduating from St Stephen’s School in 2006. Having moved back to Australia, she now focuses on producing highly traditional, classical portraiture. Her passionate knowledge for oil painting rubbed off on our Year 10 Visual Art students who learnt the skills needed to mix skin tones and blending techniques to create a realistic portrait painting.Students painted portraits and practices mixing skin tones.
Verity Palmer
Teacher – Visual Arts/Assistant Dean Carana
Today a group of Year 10 Students from St Stephen’s were fortunate enough to spend the day chatting with top researchers from UWA about their careers and opportunities in the Sciences. Hearing so many stories from young science researchers creating new knowledge and understanding for the human race is an inspiration to us all.
The students were amazed at the incredible variety of science fields that are available and that these are open to students that have a passion to make a difference in the world and that the years ahead are in fact a very exciting and interesting time. And our young people will be at the forefront of this.
Charles Biddle
Head of Learning Area Science
Year 10 students rounded out Term 2 with a week of work experience, learning about the world of work first hand. Students were introduced to various roles including physios, vets, engineers, electricians and chefs, just to name a few. Thank you to the employers who provided a placement for our students and ensured they had both meaningful work and interesting insights into the workplace.
Year 10 Outdoor Ed students took exploring to the next level recently, venturing out in Yanchep, enjoying two walks through nature and checking out a cave.
Date: Monday 17 June
Time: 6:30pm
Where: Theatre
This evening will provide an overview of requirements for WACE Graduation, presentations about elective subjects, and the opportunity to ask questions of Heads of Learning Area. Parents and students are invited to attend.
The 2020 Duncraig Curriculum Handbook is available online, and can be found either in the Parent Portalhttps://portal.ststephens.wa.edu.au/parent-and-student/learning-resources/curriculum-handbook.html, or in School Documents – Parent Information on SEQTA. The Handbook will assist when choosing electives for 2020. The slide presentation from the evening will be uploaded to SEQTA Documents.
A group of Year 10 students tried their hands at plastering, tiling and bricklaying during the School’s recent Try-A-Trade program at the North Metropolitan TAFE’s Clarkson campus.
The students spent three days learning new skills, with plastering proving very popular – shown by the amount of plaster spread around – and groups enjoying the tiling and bricklaying opportunities as well.
Try-A-Trade is a short course to give students a chance to participate in a trade environment and experience what an apprenticeship may be like.
VET in Schools liaison officer Vicki O’Connor said it allows the students to have a better overview for subject selection at school as they can make an informed decision on the course of study they would like to follow.
“Students were totally engaged in each trade, displaying excellent skills and behaviour, prompting positive comments from the lecturers at North Metropolitan TAFE, and they represented our School in an extremely positive way,” Mrs O’Connor said.
“Parents were also very supportive with phone calls, emails and chats at your Careers Expo on the positive effect it had on their child as it had given them a direction for upper school studies.”
The VET Liaison Officers from both campuses were very impressed with the students’ “have-a-go” attitude and the questions asked about pathways into trades.
