Students went all out with their creativity in this year’s Environment Sculpture Competition, which was judged on MacKillop Day. With many thought-provoking and clever entries, judging proved difficult, but in the end Robbie Wackerbarth once again came through with an impressive metal shark sculpture labelled ‘don’t cull Bruce’. Second prize went to Lindsay Ward for a colourful ‘Toy World’, which urged us to consider the destructive impact of this multi-trillion dollar plastics business. Lanah Burge picked up third with another piece of clever furniture design, this time from recycled bicycle wheels.

The College sent over seventy Year 7 students to Hay Park in Bunbury on 2 August to compete in the South West Division of the ACC Freo Dockers Shield, including a boys team and, for the first time, two teams of girls.

Year 10 student Riley Culnane has recently returned from Adelaide, where she represented WA in the School Sport Australia 15 & Under Netball grand final against NSW. At the end of the six day tournament, WA was crowned national champions and Riley was one of four WA players named in the All Australian Team, who will be touring to Fiji in 2017.

The Olympic Spirit has been a key motivator this week on the Primary campus, inspiring students to learn not just in sports, but also in History, Geography, Art, Literacy and Maths classes.

Year 9 English students have recently begun a Budding Readers program with Year 4 and 5 students from the Primary campus, designed to foster a love of reading, improve literacy and promote bonds between the secondary and primary students. It has also been an opportunity for Year 9 students to develop their skills in verbal expression.

On Wednesday the 3rd of August, six Year 9 students were selected from extension science classes to attend Aurecon’s annual Bridge-Building competition at Scitech in Perth. Schools from regional and metropolitan areas all gathered to battle it out in the name of prize money and bragging rights.

On Friday 22 July at 5:30am Mr Horrocks and Ms Stark took the Senior boys and the Year 8 netball teams up to Perth to compete in a fun filled day. The whole day I was impressed with the amazing efforts from the Year 8 girls, who kept their chins up while versing some talented schools. They showed determination and strength to head back out on the court and give it another go after losing three games in a row.

Members of our Student Council were invited to ‘Have a Say’ about the future growth of the Busselton community at a workshop facilitated by the City of Busselton’s VISION 2030 team at the College on Monday afternoon.

Last Friday’s Assembly was co-ordinated by Mr Thomson’s Year 3 class, who have been looking at our College value of Inclusion. They have been listening to ‘dreamtime’ stories as they learn about Aboriginal culture in their recent History lessons. Students showed some of their own versions of traditional dot paintings by various Indigenous artists.