Tag: Duncraig

Bunnings Training Day Success!

March 17, 2018

Well done to everyone for completing the Bunnings Day Training Session! Remember how to use the tools and skills you learned because they’ll come in handy when we are in South Africa.

Power drill (wood and masonry)
Torque wrench (screws, nuts and bolts)
Saws (jigsaw and hand saw)
Painting (rolling and brushing around trim)
Liquid Nails
Paving (measuring, levelling, cutting and laying)
Bricklaying (making ‘mud’ to keep bricks together and pavers from shifting)

A special ‘Thank you’ goes to Belinda and her team of professionals at the Joondalup Bunnings for hosting this very important training session. Not only did they provide you with the necessary skills and safety training you need while we’re on tour, but they also donated a lot of sports equipment for the children we will be visiting in South Africa.

Mr. C. Osborne

Rite Journey – great celebration

March 16, 2018

The Year 9 students participated in the Calling and Departure ceremony yesterday morning, bright and early (5:30am) at Sorrento foreshore. The ceremony calls all Year 9 students to accept the challenge of growing up, reflecting on who they are, where they are going and how they will positively contribute to our World. This is obviously a life-long challenge, but yesterday could certainly mark a memory for them as a starting point for their introspection.

A HUGE thank you must go to Nicola Kirby for organising a breakfast feast for about 450 people down on the foreshore – all happily cooked by our house captains and the fabulous Phil Timms and Nicola Resta.

Please join me in congratulating our students on their ceremony AND the Rite Journey staff for their tireless support of our Year 9 students – Sue Libbis, Andrea Tinney, Nicola Kirby, Andre Bourgault, Clay Osborne and Bennet Andrews.

Dale Kelly

Head of Rite Journey

The Big Splash Free Tickets

March 16, 2018

The Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation has decided to release free tickets for all sessions on Sunday. However, tickets need to be booked to secure places as numbers are limited. There are still free tickets available see.

We encourage all school families to come along to the Farewell Event on Sunday 19^th. See all the amazing large dolphin trail sculptures and find your own school’s special mascot back in its pod. The event is a wonderful chance for families to learn more about The Big Splash WA and support child and adolescent mental health services at PMH, which so many West Australian children and families rely on in times of need.

https://shop.pchf.org.au/the-big-splash-friends/

Welcome Return of Girls AFL

March 15, 2018

Girls AFL is back after 15 years at our campus! Sporty students from Years 10-12 hit the field for their first training session this week, coached by Year 12 student Dane Webster. We can’t wait to see these footballers kicking goals when the season starts next term. Go girls!

The girls playing in the AFLW proved that sportswomen can be front and centre, and hold their own.” – Unknown

Rite Journey Starts

March 15, 2018

This morning marked the start of the journey to adulthood the start of the Rite Journey program.

The program will be over long before any of the Year 9s are adults – and each of them will mature differently and at different paces at different times. Over the next 10 years they will outgrow and be outgrown by friends and they will start to have a real sense of who they are and who they might aspire to be.

The Rite Journey program takes several key qualities and strengths: it requires a willingness to trust others; it requires the courage to tackle tasks and possibly fail; it requires the maturity to decide to do something to the best of ones ability and to care for and respect the trust of others.

Today is called the “Departure” because is a ritual marking the start of the journey. The walk up the coast is a metaphor to remind them that they are starting something, the Rite Journey.

“The Rite Journey is already one of the best initiation into successful adulthood programs for adolescents in the world . My congratulations for such a fine trail blazing initiative.” – Peter Ellyard, Author “designing 2050′

Coffee & Conversation

March 14, 2018

Transitioning into Secondary School can be a bit daunting for students and parents as their children move into the next stage of their schooling. We have an event coming up for parents of Year 7s to come and chat and see how they’re adapting in class.

This Friday (March 16) Duncraig Secondary will hold their first Coffee and Conversation for 2018 where Year 7 Coordinator Suzy Mettam will discuss the transition into Secondary in the Community Room from 8.30-9.30am. Attendance is free. Contact the School for more information.

CRIMSON EDUCATION

March 13, 2018

There is an informational seminar run by Crimson Education to let parents know about studying at the top uni’s in the US or the UK that you might be interested in.

For more information: Perth_US&UK Seminar

Sarah Cooke

Careers Advisor

Year 10 Even Year Testing

March 13, 2018

The annual benchmark testing of Year 10 students will take place on Monday 26 March and will follow the schedule below:

8:45am start – students go to their Period 1 class for the roll to be taken, then take move to the gym with their teacher

10:45 – recess

11:05 – 2^nd session

12:30 approx finish – students will return to their Period 4 class

World’s Greatest Shave

March 12, 2018

Hello teachers, staff, and St Stephen’s community,

This month is the World’s Greatest Shave, an event organised by the Leukaemia foundation in order to fund blood cancer research. We’re organising a fundraiser for the Leukaemia foundation and it’d be great to have involvement from teachers.

For the last week of school we’d like to have teachers and students alike with their hair dyed unnatural colours, wearing wigs, or with their hair cut off.

For the teachers, what we’re going to have is a tiered system where as we raise more money, the more teachers dye their hair, wear a wig, or shave their head. This provides an incentive for students to raise money however it also means that if you sign up you may not necessarily be wearing a wig, dying hair, or shaving in the final week of term.

If you are interested in joining in you can you please send an email my way so that we can get you on board before we announce the fundraiser this Tuesday in assembly. If during the fundraiser you decide you want to join in also just email me and we’ll add you in; it’s never too late.

A few other points:

Students will be donating money to dye their hair, shave their head, or wear a wig so the teachers won’t be the only ones in the final week. If students want to partake they’ll need to give the money and the signed parental consent form to their House Deans. Collected by HOUSE CAPTAINS AND FUNDRAISERS

We’ll be announcing the fundraiser on Tuesday (13 March) and the fundraising will stop on Friday the 6th of April. That Friday those students and teachers who’ve signed up for buzz cut will get it done in the quad during lunch. We’ll be collecting money every Wednesday during homeroom while the fundraiser is running.

Nick Hodgskin

Year 12

Air Force Flight Camp for Young Women – RAAF Pearce

March 12, 2018

This is to let you know about a fantastic opportunity at the Air Force that is coming up in April. It is the Air Force Flight Camp for Young Women which is being run at RAAF Pearce in Bullsbrook from 9-12 April.

You will find all the information you need here

If you have any questions or need help with your application, please let me know.