I am so proud of our Year 9/10 Glass students. They have worked through the process of designing, cutting, pasting, grouting and then cleaning the glass for their individual mosaic projects with fabulous results. Go team! - Mrs Honeywell

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Our Year 7 GROW classes have just started a unit called Spill That Can Kill, which looks at the effects of oil and pollution within our environment. Last Wednesday students completed two experiments looking at the difference between soluble, and insoluble, substances, in fresh water and salt water. The final experiment looked at ways to separate oil from water, and whether it would be possible to use this technique to extract oil from our oceans.

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Our VCE Food Technology students have created some amazing Middle Eastern inspired cuisine!

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Zoey Davis (U13 girls athletics champion) and Emily Dunn (U14 girls athletics and swimming champion) presented with their medals at this week's year level assembly. 

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In Humanities we learnt about Ancient Egypt death masks and the Afterlife. 

We got to create a death mask and then we wrapped one of our classmates like a Mummy/Pharaoh then put the death mask on him. 

We also learnt how the rich would do that so they would go to the afterlife and that they would kill their relatives and bring them with them so they could be in the afterlife with them. When becoming a mummy the surgeon would take out all your insides and would scrape out your brain with a spoon through your nose. Once your insides were out they would put them in canopic jars. By doing all this their bodies would be resurrected in the afterlife. - By Hamish Andrews

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Last week in Humanities after Naplan, instead of doing writing work Ms Jones let us roleplay an Ancient Egyptian burial ritual and we were mummified with Mia playing the dead pharaoh, Talydia being the death surgeon and Lillie the death surgeon’s assistant. First we looked at some death masks and then we made our own. Our inspiration for the mask was Shrek. After we carefully colored in the mask with textas we circled Mias body with 4 rolls of toilet paper. That task was difficult with two people because Lillie and Talydia had to go on their knees to wrap the legs and body. After we wrapped the body it was time to lay her down, Ms Jones had to help the girls because otherwise the paper would have ripped. So Mia had to trust-fall onto the ground while the girls were holding her. Then we had to place the mask on her face. After that Talydia and Lillie grabbed some cups and scrunched it up to look like the inside were taken out of the Pharaoh. Take a photo and we were done. You think….

After Mia had broken out of the toilet paper everyone was packing up. Mia decided that it would be a good idea if everybody covered her in the toilet paper everyone was wrapped in… So in short Mia was mummified twice.

We all had lots of fun during this activity! Written by, Mia, Lillie and Talydia

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Shayla Maimur representing the SLAM committee by giving the year 8 students a rundown of the exciting things ahead!