ECU On Campus Open Days

September 22, 2020

It is our pleasure to invite you and your students to register for our On-Campus Open Days!

We will be hosting Open Days at each of our campuses: Joondalup, Mount Lawley and at our South West campus in Bunbury. Please click the image below to visit our registration page.

All guests who register to attend one of our upcoming Open Days will go into a draw to win a Mavic Mini drone! We also encourage attendees to join our Facebook event pages for the latest updates and information:

Our programs, and online planner will be live next week, allowing you and your students to personalise your Open Day experience. Check back in next Friday to plan your day! [ecu.edu.au/open-day]ecu.edu.au/open-day

We hope you have received the Open Day posters that we have mailed out. If you are yet to receive these, please see copies attached.

We look forward to seeing you!

SCSA Advice – Contingencies for WACE Examinations

September 21, 2020

 

Last week, Year 12 students and families were emailed by the school with advice and reminders about the upcoming WACE Examinations. This information has also been discussed in Education Plus. Of course, please do not hesitate to contact the school if you have any questions at all.

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 and is providing ongoing advice for students, teachers, school leaders, parents/guardians/carers and the community as the situation evolves. The Board of SCSA continues to work from the premise that no student should be disadvantaged as a result of the COVID-19 situation. SCSA encourages everyone to stay up-to-date with their latest communications and resources as they become available. Students are asked to log into the SCSA Student Portal every day before each examination.

The Student website https://student.scsa.wa.edu.au/ now includes a general advice page for Year 12s. The page also links to the Curriculum and Assessment Advice – COVID-19 page for students. The updates to the Parent and Community website https://parent.scsa.wa.edu.au/ provide additional information and advice to support Year 12s. The new information is collected under an additional tab: How can I help my Year 12? The focus of the initial SCSA update is on finishing Year 12 (all students) and completing the ATAR course examinations (ATAR students).

Liz Criddle

Deputy Head of Secondary (Teaching & Learning)

MAKING STRIDES

September 18, 2020

As part of their transition into Year 3,  Year 2s visited the Primary School this week, guided by some very helpful Year 9 students. After a play in the playground, students took part in French and Music lessons to become familiar with their surroundings before the move next year.

Impressive initiative in science and mathematics

September 18, 2020

Thomas McIntyre (pictured on left) watched a video on statistics in his spare time and decided to do some field testing in the school to verify the findings of the video. The premise is below;

“In the jelly-bean guessing game, participants either guess too high or too low and in roughly equal proportion and to about the same degree of inaccuracy. The individual will usually guess incorrectly, however if a large enough group is sampled and their average guess is taken, the average guess approaches the actual number of beans, even if everybody in the sample group has guessed incorrectly.”

Thomas wanted to test this theory, so he took a jar of M&M’s to the quad during lunch with a few tables and an assistant and surveyed around 100 participants to guess the number of M&M’s in the jar. The jury is still out on whether the theory holds true, but I think the fact that he has gone to all this effort, independently and without prompting, to verify the reliability of a theory on statistics which he read about in his spare time is a great testament to his ambition and promise as a scientist/mathematician.

Ben Lyons (pictured on right) helped Thomas out on the day processing data.

Kaleb Withers

Teacher – Science

ACC Carnival Results

September 15, 2020

On Monday, we won the ACC “C” Division Carnival achieving promotion to “B” Division in 2021!!

We came away with the Overall Winner’s trophy as well as:

·         the Overall Girls trophy

·         the Senior Girls trophy

·         the Junior Girls trophy

We were neck and neck with Irene McCormack for most of the day, with the carnival being won as a result of our consistent and dominant relay teams.

Please congratulate our athletics team when you see them!

Please also congratulate the following students who excelled in their age groups:

  • Eloise Parsons (11) Open Girls Runner Up
  • Michael Nilsson (8) U/14 Boys Runner Up
  • Jesse Inall (7) 3rd place U/13 boys
  • Max McCullough (7) 4th place U/13 boys
  • Hayden Windsor (9) 4th place U/15 boys

 

Fire Tech Reminder

September 15, 2020

Are you all sorted with your school holiday plans? With less than two weeks to go, make sure you book in for the best learning experience around!

In partnership with St Stephen’s School, Fire Tech Australia have over 20 exclusive courses designed to educate, entertain and inspire the next generation of innovators, with courses suiting children aged 6-9, 9-12, and 12-17.

There are limited seats available so hurry and get in quick! https://www.firetechcamp.com.au/

Yr 7 Service Learning

September 10, 2020

Reporting for duty!  Cleaning St Nicolas church in Duncraig.

(l – r)

  1. Hamish Ineson
  2. Jacob Atkinson
  3. Daniel Nievelstein
  4. Joshwa Ruiz
  5. Patrick Quin (front centre)

 

Marketing Expo Year 12

September 8, 2020

As a part of the Certificate IV in Business, teams of year 12 students recently participated in a Marketing Expo hosted in Carana House Forum. This Expo required students to identify an existing product, and then remarket it with a range of marketing strategies such as new branding and product features, and a variety of promotional tools and pricing structures. Expo visitors, which included students, teachers and members of St Stephen’s Executive, were able to question each of the student teams about their marketing ideas and provide them with feedback. Students will use this feedback to write a “report to management” about the success of their marketing efforts as one of the final tasks they complete in the Certificate course.

Chris Bright

Teacher – Humanities and Social Sciences & Business

MC HANDOVER

September 7, 2020

Our wonderful MC for the Foundation Gala Damian Martin has unfortunately had to pull out of his duties, but he is excited to pass the baton to another one of Perth’s big names. Sports journalist, commentator and TV presenter Lachy Reid will now be joining us for a night of entertainment on November 7 at Crown Perth! See Damian’s message below. Last tickets on sale now at https://www.trybooking.com/BHKWP.

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