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Y7-12 Science Week Highlights

Jo Dunn on 28/08/2018

Science Week has proved to be a lot of fun for Newman students this year. We flew planes, made big bubbles, launched rockets, blew up drink bottles, tested our general knowledge with Kahoots and watched Professor Brian Cox take us through the Universe on the big screen!

Year 7 student Ben Borgas won the longest flight time of 8.75sec with his amazing paper plane. Noah Connelly (Year 7) threw his plane the furthest at 26.4m. Riley Hammond and Cooper Stevens (Year 7’s) made the biggest bubbles on a beautiful sunny day in Founders Court. Congratulations also go to the winners of the Kahoots Quiz, which were Year 7 students Gary and Jake.

On Wednesday, Mr Spriggins and Mr Shuckstes put on a fantastic show on the College oval. Students jumped in surprise at the sound of a massive “boom”, as the dry ice in a plastic drink bottle exploded! With great anticipation and a chorus count of “10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-blast off” students saw many successful rocket launches that sent them very high into the sky only to return safe and sound (except for one that landed on the Lavalla classroom building!).

Special thanks to all the Science staff who organised all the activities for students to enjoy.

Brad Young, Head of Science

K-12 Feast of the Assumption Celebrations

Jo Dunn on 28/08/2018

On Wednesday 15 August and Friday 17 August, our K-12 College community celebrated the Feast of the Assumption. This is the Feast day chosen for the Marist Brothers at the time of their foundation by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, the founder of the Marist Brothers and of Marist Education.

Primary Feast of the Assumption Celebrations

Our Primary School students gathered together to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption with a Mass, Buddy Day activities and also a Lap-a-thon to raise funds for Australian Marist Solidarity.

Marcellin Campus Assumption Day Mass

On Wednesday 15 August students at the Marcellin Campus celebrated the Feast of the Assumption with a Senior School Mass.

All K-6 money raised on Friday 17 August will be pooled with the money raised by the Marcellin Campus on Friday 8 June (Years 7–12 Chamapgnat Fete Day) and will be given to ‘Kuya’, an Australian Marist Solidarity NGO supporting children living on the streets in Manila. This project is visited by our Year 11 students on the Philippines Immersion. Our Year 11 students (as part of their visit to Kuya) learn about how these much needed funds are used to support homeless and vulnerable young people on the streets of Manila as part of their ‘street retreat’ in December.

Families can learn more about the work of Australian Marist Solidarity by clicking here.

PK-12 Book Week Highlights

Jo Dunn on 28/08/2018

Primary School Book Week Celebrations

The theme for Book Week this year was “Find Your Treasure”, which is such a perfect description of the search to discover our next great book. An exciting story can feel like treasure to children when it speaks to them and understands the way they think and feel. Each year our school spends a week celebrating Australian authors and illustrators, which is a wonderful way to promote books and literacy to our students.

The students at Lavalla Campus loved their incursion with visiting local author James Foley. We were very lucky to welcome James to our school who explained the creative process of writing and illustrating a picture book or graphic novel.

The students attended a second incursion during Book Week with award winning artist and performer Sam Hughes. They experienced; laughter, a little mischief and lots of fun as Sam created & illustrated some original stories.

The students at Marian Campus also enjoyed a visit from story teller Samantha Hughes. The students were very excited to have the opportunity to participate in story making and creating art with Sam.

The Pre-Primary, Year 1 and Year 2 students from Marian Campus walked to the Cambridge Library to attend an author talk with Sandi Parsons. Sandi introduced her fantastic new chapter book ‘Pepsi the Problem Puppy’ to the students. She explained that that her ideas came from her dog a blue heeler called Pepsi who is very mischievous and always getting into trouble.

The Kindy students took part in the wonderful Better Beginnings incursion by Cambridge librarian Melissa Payne. All the children were thrilled to receive a free Better Beginnings gift bag at this visit.

All students from both campuses were very excited to participate in a parade where they came dressed up as one of their favourite book characters. Please see photos below.

Marcellin Campus Book Week Activities

It has been a busy week at the Marcellin Campus with numerous activities to celebrate Book Week.

A daily Book Week quiz has been published in the Notices with riddles and anagrams to solve, along with questions about well known books, characters and authors. Book vouchers have been awarded to the winners.

Students from Years 7-9 participated in the Write a Book In A Day Competition on Wednesday. Each team produced a 5000 word book complete with illustrations.

Year 12 students visited the Lavalla Campus to read some CBCA Short-listed picture books to Year 3 students.

Term 3 School Holidays

Jo Dunn on 12/07/2018

Term 3 concludes for PK-12 on Thursday 20 September.

Student return dates:

PK-Y11 students return Tuesday 9 October

Year 6 Tinkering Project

Jo Dunn on 09/07/2018

On Thursday 14 June the Year 6 students were involved in a STEM activity called Tinkering inside the Lavalla Hall. Tinkering gives students the opportunity to be creative, think critically and collaborate in an inquiry-based approach to STEM-rich learning. The day allowed our Vision for Learning Shine through Discovery to be present as the students took apart various electronics and labelled the parts, purposes and complexities. Students then used the parts to create a seismograph. Thank you to all of Year 6 Dads and Grandads who were present and helped the children on the day. Below is a re-count from two Year 6 students:

On Thursday 14 June, Year 6 students were involved in a STEM related activity called Tinkering. It required us to be ‘hands on’ with pieces of machinery and electronics. Parents provided us with essential tools such as screwdrivers. This allowed us to take apart the hardware piece by piece. After this we created a poster where we labelled the parts, purposes and complexities of the machine. This showed us the inner workings of the electronics. With the parts from the machine we designed and created a seismograph. All of Year 6 had a phenomenal time and we would be very happy to do something like this again next term.

Joshua Do and Jett Patterson, Year 6 students