Despite Remote Learning, Year 10 continues to work with focus on all their subjects. This includes completing the somewhat dreaded assessment tasks. Some might find an exam at home more comfortable than one at school, but at the end of the day, it is an experience...
Year 9 Main Lesson have been exploring conic sections – a curve obtained at the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane. They have investigated four types of conic sections: the hyperbola, the parabola, circle, and the ellipse. The students have...
Last week the Year 9 cohort were extremely fortunate to get their ski trip to Mount Stirling off the ground with huge thank-you’s going to Kate and Ness for all their help. After spending Tuesday night camped in the snow at King Saddle the group headed up to Razorback...
Year 7 kicks off the new semester with the Age of Discovery, a Main Lesson focused on some of the early explorers. Students will engage with a number of map-making tasks; looking at some Medieval maps and seeing how they change over time, eventually culminating in a...
How does an artist work? Human creativity is at the heart of our development as a species. Animals can be creative too and there have been fascinating research studies on primates, sea mammals, birds, and even insects. These animals have demonstrated the ability to...
Year 7 have wrapped up their Arthurian Literature Main Lesson, exploring the idea of Medieval Chivalry and what the Holy Grail might represent. They have now launched straight into preparations for their play ‘Eleanor the Queen’. Set in the 12th Century it follows the...
