Mr Magee’s Year 4 class shared what they had been learning about in English this term all about Advertising. They looked at a number of techniques used by advertisers when writing advertisements to persuade people to buy their product. Students applied what they had learned to create posters advertising the assembly, which they displayed around the school.
Year 6 students received the Sacrament of Confirmation at Our Lady of the Bay Church, in Busselton on Sunday 20 August.
All students in Year 6 have focused on learning about the sacrament and their own spiritual growth over the past term. The 44 candidates were very well prepared, with plenty of support from classmates during their journey.
On Friday 25th of August, the Year 11 students enjoyed a night of dancing and socialising at their annual Spring Fling. There was plenty of excitement and enthusiasm for this highly anticipated event, as the students arrived in their finest attire and entered the Arabian themed night.
Year 7 students celebrated Book Week recently with a ‘fantasy hat tea party’ in the library at recess.
Staff decorated the Library entrance as a wardrobe portal into Narnia, complete with coat rack, snow covered trees and lamppost.
The library invited students to create a hat or mask based on a fantasy creature or imaginative creation of their own.
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.