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
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!
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
Another two records brokenat the ACC Swimming Carnival!
What a fabulous results for the girls.
Crystal Edwards U15 Breastroke 34.00.
Lauren Gadtevich open breastroke 33.76.
“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
At today’s ACC Swimming Carnival, Crystal Edwards broke the ACC U15 100m Freestyle record in 58.74. Records have been kept for over 100 years so a big thing.
What a momentous effort by Crystal!
“For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.” – Psalm 57:10
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
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
As part of the Year 9 Earth and Space Science course, the students have been looking at how gravity played a significant role in the formation of the solar system and the planets within it, including the Earth.
The students simulated the curving of space time and how this causes matter to clump together and in some cases, go into orbit!
Ben Nicholson
Science Teacher
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′