Grade 7 and 8 Religion

In Religious Education, the students in Grades 7 and 8 have recently had some excellent visiting speakers. Religious Education Officer at the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office, Leanne Prichard visited some of the Grade 7 classrooms to speak about Judaism. Leanne has visited Israel and has a wealth of knowledge on the topic, which she shared with the students!

Grade 9 Duke Bronze

Being dubbed ‘Bali on a budget’ (Bridie Pepper), the duke bronze adventurous journey is one the Grade 9's of 2020 will never forget. The Duke of Edinburgh course is a challenging, rewarding course that students in Grade 9 and 10 can undergo as an elective. To complete the course you have to do 50 hours of physical recreation, volunteering, and learning a new skill during the course. Throughout the year, the students also learn valuable skills such as their first aid course and disability awareness. At the end of the year, the students go on a 3 day hike known as an adventurous journey. The two classes went to Freycinet and walked the Freycinet Peninsula circuit.

We started our adventure with a drive up to Freycinet jamming to some tunes, very well prepared for what was ahead of us. As we all soon realised the small bits and bobs people had left behind “I forgot my goggles” (Isobel Masters), we started our adventurous journey. Day one was a 14 km hike which included walking along the beautiful hazards beach and cooks beach where we set up our tents and camped for the first night. The students had to prepare meals, clean, set up their tents all by themselves with their groups as part of the course. We all ate our food after a long day and grouped together to play the most intense game of Uno I have personally ever seen. Ella Coad was, unfortunately, the unlucky player that had to brave it and dive under the freezing cold water once we reached Wineglass Bay.

Most would say day two was the hardest as some of us not only walked up one but two mountains! We walked in two groups with a slower group followed not long after by the fast group who caught up to the first group at the bottom of Mount Graham for lunch. The views were amazing from the top of Mount Graham and Mount Freycinet which was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. Many of us had a few trips and falls. Eloise Paine came out with the biggest battle scars of the trip and Layla Burns ended the day with a very muddy shoe, to say the least. Some people braved it and swam once we got to Wineglass Bay all enjoying a quiet night preparing for our final day.

“Short term pain for long term memories” (Bridie Pepper). We definitely were all feeling the pain by day three, to say the least! Our final day was 4kms along Wineglass beach and walking up around 1000 stairs to reach our final destination. We stopped at the lookout to see how far we had walked over the three days and we were all very proud of ourselves. On our way home we stopped in at Swansea for lunch and enjoyed some hot chips and sweets and treats from the local stores. 14 very tired kids arrived home and were very ready for their beds all feeling very proud of what they had accomplished.

A big thank you to Mr Hickey and Mrs Ottaway for making this camp happen and preparing us for the trek. We wouldn’t have been able to do it without you!

Niamh Bawle

Grade 9 Student

Muso's Corner

In the last issue, we featured compositions by two of our Grade 10 students.

For this issue, we can view a performance by Grade 9 student, Madeline Brough.

Below, Madeline gives some details on her preparation for this performance.

SELECTION
The piece I chose was ‘She Used To Be Mine’ by Sara Barellies. The song is the feature song from Barellies’ musical ‘Waitress’. I have just finished working on it in my singing lessons. I chose the song because I enjoy the musical and the song is an emotional piece.

PRACTICE
As said before, the song was from my singing lessons. I started working on the song in 1st Term, and practise 1-3 times a week. The song itself is quite an emotional song, being from a musical, and conveying the emotion was what I worked on most.

PERFORMANCE
For the performance, I used the instrumental track from the Waitress UK cast. I didn’t use a mic stand (I really don’t like them) so I held the mic instead. I remembered to keep my mouth close to the mic so I had a clear sound and steady volume.

VET Students

Thank you to the Grade 9 and 10 boys who have supported Cesar for the last two weeks planting 50 blackwood trees along the perimeter of the Huntingfield Campus. The boys worked tirelessly and did an outstanding job. Thank you to Nic Wilson, Callum Hutchinson, Josh Brazendale, Tyler Wooley, Nyles Armstrong and Campbell Clifford. The boys have demonstrated that they can work both independently and as part of a team with limited supervision. Great skills as they head towards the senior years of their education.