Tag: Year 9

Year 9 Ration Challenge

June 12, 2018

Can you imagine eating only rice, lentils and sardines for three days straight?

This is what Year 9 students and Mr Dale Kelly will do as they take part in the Ration Challenge, where they will eat only what a refugee eats for three days. Their challenge will take place during Refugee Week, which runs from 17 to 24 June 2018.

Students will receive a ration pack consisting of basic food items, and while they raise awareness, they also raise funds for the cause. The food in each ration pack, which includes rice, lentils, chick peas, sardines and some oil, will feed each person for the three days.

This activity ties in with the Year 9 students in two ways:

Part of the English course is that they are currently studying Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee
The Rite Journey aims to explore ideas about advocating for those in need.

Here is the link to their fundraising page https://school.rationchallenge.org.au/st-stephens-school

Students and staff are aiming to recognise and raise awareness of the struggles experienced by people around the world who seek refuge from war, famine, and natural disasters.

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” – Ephesians 2:10

CAS Girls Soccer

June 8, 2018

The girls smashed it winning by the mercy rule which limits them to 7-0 (actual score was 15-0) and they were coached by Lauren Vaisey a Year 10 student. This is for the year 8/9 girls CAS soccer team.

Miss Karry Plummer

Learning Enrichment & Physical Education Teacher

Making Spectrometers

June 5, 2018

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The Year 9’s were studying space and how the composition of starts can be determined by looking at the spectra produced by the light they give off. The students made a simplified version, using the same principles.

Mr Benjamin Nicholson

Science Teacher

2018 Banners in the Terrace Design Competition

June 5, 2018

The Year 9’s have been busy finishing their designs for the Banners in the Terrace Competition. Please find attached our 6 finalists whose works will be display at Joondalup library from 5th June to 8 July.

BANNERS IN THE TERRACE is one of Western Australia’s largest community arts projects featuring banners submitted by Councils from all over WA.

We wish all the students good luck!

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Sporting Success

May 22, 2018

We are excited to share a number of exceptional student sporting achievements with our community over the coming days. Starting with swimming, Year 12 student Lauren Gastevich has just been selected to represent Australia at the 2018 Oceana Championships in Papua New Guinea!

Rachael Edwards, Year 12, recently finished third place at the School Sport Triathlon Nationals, while her sister Crystal, Year 9, won medals in several of her races at the Australian Age Swimming Championships.

Congratulations girls!

Breast Cancer Fundraiser

May 18, 2018

Shanii Forrest Year 9, has a movie fundraiser with her RITE journey mentor to help raise money for breast cancer. It would be great if the St Stephen’s School Community could help and support this great cause.

Cost – Adults $22, Children Under 15 $18 (includes movie ticket, water and a treat)

Date – 15th June
Time – 6:30pm (don’t be late)

Location – Whitfords, Event Cinemas

YEAR 7, 8 AND 9 PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

April 10, 2018

Parents will note from the school calendar that these interviews are timed to be held at the start of Semester Two, after parents have received Semester One reports in June. Because of the rollover, the Semester One report will report on Term 0, 1 and 2. The parent/teacher interviews are at the start of Term 3. Parents have the semester break 30 June -22 July to discuss the report with their child, before meeting teachers right at the start of Semester Two. This means parents have all of Term 3 and 4 to make any changes and to work on feedback, while it is also expected that the feedback being provided in an ongoing manner in SEQTA is also being accessed throughout the whole year. SEQTA feedback includes ongoing suggestions for concerns to be addressed or changes made and is intended to ensure that there are no surprises for parents when Semester One reports are received. Information about how to book interviews will be emailed to parents closer to the date.

Dr Liz Criddle

Deputy Head of Secondary

The gravity of the situation…

March 20, 2018

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

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′

Sculpture by the Sea

March 9, 2018

Yesterday Visual Art teacher Verity Palmer and Art Technician Claire Davenhall took the Year 9 Visual Art students to Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe.

Two artists were on hand to talk to the students, Rima Zabaneh and Andrea Vinkovic.

This is the 14th Annual Cottesloe Exhibition of Sculptures by the Sea.

Sculpture by the Sea was established in 2005 and is the world’s largest FREE to the public sculpture exhibition, having generally over 70 sculptures designed by artists from all over the world. The exhibition is featured from the sea wall, all the way along the sand towards North Cottesloe and on the grassed areas around the beach, and this creates a unique sculpture park.

Well worth a visit!