NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK 2022
National science week is the Annual celebration of science and technology, designed to bring science to the forefront of students minds and raise awareness for certain topics. Last year was the topic of biotechnology and “food by design”, whereby students engaged in remote escape rooms, but due to the remote learning there were certain limits.
After remote learning during science week last year, it was refreshing to get back into the classrooms for National Science Week 2022. This year’s theme: Glass – More than meets the eye. A chance for students to learn more about something we use every day, but know little about.
This year years 7 – 10 engages in an escape room designed to be an immersive, hands-on activity to test students’ problem-solving skills via ten challenge stations, around the science lab. And the race was on - students worked in groups of 3 to see who could solve the escape room the fastest and unlock the secret safe.
The winners of this challenge were:
Stage 4 Team
Jackson Schulstad,
Jake Rambaldini,
William Griffiths
Stage 5 Team
Holly Bridge
Olivia Aylen
Summer Hannan
There was also the illustrious annual JT paper plane competition that was held this year in the Hall, with the focus in 2022 being the longest flown distance. Many students vied eagerly for the podium finish with many different planes; some weird, some whacky and some of traditional designs. The winner of this competition was Nathaniel Dhiman with a record distance of 29.3metres achieved with his dart like paper plane.
Congratulations to all of the winners, and the competitors for both the escape rooms and the paper plane contest and we eagerly look forward to National Science Week 2023.
Year 12 visit to the UNSW Human Disease Museum
This term year 12 Biology students visited the Human disease Museum at the University of New South Wales.
The students were lucky enough to see specimens donated to the museum of diseased body parts. These diseases were both infectious and non-infectious, such as different types of cancer, diabetes, cirrhosis, hepatitis and genetic disorders.
Students completed case studies for conditions relating to alcoholism, smoking and poor diet.
Students also got a feel for university life. Catching the train and tram to the university, getting to have a look around the campus of UNSW and sitting and having lunch together in the food hall.
Native Bees
Year 7.7 were lucky enough to visit with Dr Johnson’s Native Bees this week. Year 7 were interested in including native Bees in their solution to their sustainability project to increase biodiversity within the Indigenous garden.
