Tag: 2018

All Stars!

March 29, 2018

Following on from our outstanding performance in the recent A Division Carnival, the following have been selected in the ACC All Stars Swim Team:

Crystal Edwards

Eliza Hodder

Lauren Gastevich

Tenzin Pepper

Tom Anderson

Zachary Anderson

The Swimming All Stars Team is an “All ACC” honorary team consisting of the best two performers in each event across all divisions of carnival. In relay events the best four indvidual 50m performers are selected. All students selected in the All Stars team are presented with a badge and certificate of acknowledgment from the ACC. Age champions and record breakers are also acknowledged with a certificate from the ACC. Outstanding students that achieve the feat of All Star selection in the same sport for four years will be eligible to receive ACC Letters.

Matt Richmond

HOLA Health & Physical Education & Teacher of Psychology

 

A Busy Summer of CAS

March 29, 2018

I would like to thank Anna Pargeter, our CAS sport organiser, for her efforts and hard work in regard to Inter-School Sport. We have more teams and more sports represented than ever before.  I would also like to commend the swimming team and the staff who coached them. We came third in A Division – and when results across all divisions (A through to I) were combined – we came 3rd out of 80 schools and were only 7 points off second place! Well done to all students, parents and teachers for their support.

Next term the winter CAS season starts. While we are not entering a Year 7 AFL team (we have never managed to sustain a Year 7 team in the past) we are entering a Junior and a Senior Team as always and Year 7 boys can still attend School trials for the Junior Boys AFL team (Years 7,8,9).  A Year 7 Boys Football team has been entered into the North Metro Cup (Dockers Shield), which takes place on Tuesday 12th June in Week 7 of Term 2.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our families a blessed Easter and a safe holiday in a few weeks’ time. Our annual Thanksgiving Service, to which our entire community is invited, takes place in the last week of Term. Please previous correspondence regarding booking a place for your family.

Bruce Titlestad

Head of Duncraig Secondary

Important dates

March 28, 2018

8 APRIL UWA Health Campus Open Day 10am – 2 pm

The UWA Health Campus will open to the community for the first time in 2018.

Future students and their families can explore our laboratories, e-learning suites and WA’s most comprehensive pathology museum. This is also your chance to learn about the many health-related courses available at UWA, in areas such as medicine, biomedical engineering, genetics, sports science, pharmacology and dentistry.

For more details go HERE.

 

11 APRIL Murdoch Teaching and Education Information Evening 7.30 – 9.00pm

This information session is ideal for students from Years 10 – 12 and for mature age students. It will focus on primary, secondary and health and physical education teaching.

Register HERE.

 

Looking to go to WAAPA? Or ECU Mount Lawley?
17 APRIL 11am- 12 noon ECU Campus Tour Mt Lawley

Mt Lawley Campus is the one with WAAPA as well as a host of other courses. Register for the Campus Tour HERE.

 

17 – 19 APRIL UWA Student Advisory Sessions

These school holiday sessions are designed to help answer questions you have about future study, including:

  • UWA courses
  • Entry requirements
  • Subject selection advice
  • The ATAR process
  • The UWA student experience

For more information and to make a booking go HERE.

 

26 APRIL Curtin Getting into Medicine Information Session

Hear from the Dean of Curtin Medical School, Professor William Hart about entry and application requirements, as well as a future in medicine.

If you can’t attend in-person, you can join our webinar.

It is on in the Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre.

Arrive early.

Last year this event was the most popular show in town. You can register HERE

 

30 APRIL Fogarty Foundation Scholarships Close

The Fogarty Foundation Scholarships are for the brightest students.

There are 10 UWA scholarships per year and they are granted to students who have significant academic ability, together with a strong sense of community involvement and leadership responsibility in year 11 and 12.

You can find out more HERE.

 

3 MAY  6pm ECU Psych, Counselling, Criminology Info Evening Joondalup

If you have a passion for communication and for understanding the human condition, our School of Arts and Humanities offers courses with exciting employment or self-employment opportunities. To register go HERE.

Short Courses for Credit Program

March 28, 2018

ECU’s School of Arts and Humanities invites you to join our Short Courses for Credit Program. These FREE courses are designed to introduce high school students to university life, offer an engaging, hands-on experience in a discipline of their choice and give them a head start at university. Our short courses are aimed at motivated year 11 and 12 students who have an existing interest and passion for the Arts and/or Media. These week-long specialist courses cover areas of study offered at ECU, promoting aspirations for tertiary education. Students gain a deeper understanding of the way university works, helping them to overcome any anxiety they might have about higher education.

Students develop self-confidence and public speaking skills, team work and group collaboration techniques and produce high quality written and digital works. They expand on skills that support their school work and come to discover that university is an option they might not have considered before. Importantly, students who pass the requirements of these courses will receive Advanced Standing (credit transfer) for a first/second year unit, once gaining successful admission to an applicable ECU undergraduate course. This means students will save time and money before even commencing their university studies.

The School of Arts and Humanities offers the following Short Courses for Credit:

Mount Lawley Campus

  • Broadcasting
  • Comics
  • Events Management (PR)
  • Fashion
  • Film and Video (Scriptwriting)
  • Journalism
  • Photomedia
  • Visual Arts (Drawing)

Registration

Registrations for our Term 2, 2018 Short Courses for Credit Program are now open.

Please register online using the in-page form: http://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/arts-and-humanities/community-activity/services-and-initiatives/short-courses-for-credit-program

 

Registration can be done via this link http://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/arts-and-humanities/community-activity/services-and-initiatives/short-courses-for-credit-program

Rats Ahoy!

March 23, 2018

This afternoon the Y11 ATAR Biology class investigated all the systems by rat dissection! Students could fully investigate all systems by identifying all the parts and discussing their functions. They even made a time lapse to show the full procedure! Pretty cool!

Nicola Ross

Science Teacher

“I profess to learn and to teach not from books but from dissections.” – William Harvey

Out of this World

March 22, 2018

Congratulations to Year 9 students Jiyona Jipson and Vivek Desai (Carramar) and Lauren Bates and Noah Kane (Dunraig) who have been selected to represent St Stephen’s School at Space Camp USA. They will be part of a 70-member delegation of young Australian students visiting America in October. Among a range of exciting activities, they’ll visit the Californian Science Centre in Los Angeles and the US Space and Rocket Centre in Alabama. We are beyond excited for them!

Harmony Week 2018

March 22, 2018

To mark Harmony Day 2018 Yr 10 students attended the 2018 Harmony Week Debate at Subiaco Arts Centre. The topic was “Is cultural diversity a threat to the Australian way of life.”

The moderated debate featured students from WA’s five universities and the Youth Affairs Council of WA (YACWA).

Clay Osbourne

Year 7 Teacher

“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” – Sallust

Year 7 Stop Motion

March 20, 2018

On Friday 16th March, Mr Hummerston’s Year 7 Media class took to creating their own Claymation characters by making their own play-dough. Whilst the task was incredibly messy there were some very successful playdough artists.

Look out for their final short films which are currently in production!

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.” – Galatians 5:22-23

 

The Big Splash finale at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre

March 20, 2018

Duncraig Visual Arts staff students painted and decorated their dolphin, “Finlay” and our Visual Art Technician extraordinaire, Claire Davenhall, had two dolphins, “Icebreaker” and “Inter Aqua” exhibited. Funds from the auction of these dolphins go to support Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation. The purpose of the project being to promote positive mental health and awareness in young people.

They both sold at Auction last night! The dolphins raised over $128,000 last night for Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation.

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” – Timothy 1:7

STUDENTS SCULPTS PARALLEL PERSPECTIVES

March 20, 2018

Inspired by her own personal experience, Nikki Coleman (Duncraig Class of 2017) has proved the making of a great artist lies in the ability to convey a narrative. Nikki’s remarkable artwork ‘Penthesilea’ has earned her a place in the latest Year 12 Perspectives Art Exhibition.