During Week 6, the Year 8 students participated in a wind tunnel challenge workshop facilitated by Questacon Smart Skills. The workshop took students through the innovation process of think, make, try and refine.
“We learned about wind-tunnels, indoor skydiving, ‘proto-storming’ and MacGyver,” said Year 8 student Marc Aquino, who enjoyed the challenge of engineering an object using limited materials that will float in a wind tunnel for a minimum of ten seconds.
The Perth Scorchers Bus visited the College last Wednesday to give students the opportunity to have a go at playing cricket.
Facilitated by the South West Cricket Development Office, the sessions gave students a chance to try out the sport, with the aim of promoting cricket to ages 7-12.
The activities continue the College’s primary sports program of refining fundamental movement skills to develop specific skills used in organized games such as cricket.
Over a hundred students from the College travelled to Perth recently to perform in music and dance at the Catholic Performing Arts Festival.
The festival, which was held from mid July until September 1, showcases the diverse and creative arts skills of students in Catholic schools.
Miss Meagher’s Year 2 class began their assembly by re-enacting the story ‘The Gifts of the Sun Goddess’. Its vibrant message – that what you might dislike about yourself could be the very quality that others strive for – relates to our studies on ‘Identity’.
Science Week this year saw our students on the secondary campus engineering towers out of paper and straws during lunchtimes. It was a task that challenged their skills in creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication, as they strived to solve the problem of building maximum height combined with maximum strength.
The rain stayed away all day for the 2017 Busselton Pedal Prix, creating perfect conditions for this year’s race with only the barest hint of a sea breeze and plenty of sunshine.
Year 11 MacKillop student Riley Culnane was named Runner-Up in the Busselton Rising Sports Star for 2017, in an evening where six of the twelve finalists were students from the College once again.
On Tuesday August 15, our Senior Girls and Senior Boys Football teams competed against Georgiana Molloy. The wet and windy conditions at the GMAS football oval set the scene for an enthralling afternoon of football.
Last week we said goodbye to four students from Italy who had been staying with Year 11 host families during their summer break, as part of an exchange program with the WA Association of Teachers of Italian (WAATI). The aim was to live an ‘in-home experience’ and get a feel for Australian life at the very heart of it.
Mrs Dumbrell’s class assembly was presented on Friday 18th August. It opened with a series of group tableaux depicting the different types of courage we have been learning about in Health. The students then sang along to the song ‘Brave’ by Sara Bareilles.