Clean Up Australia Day
Written by Kiara Flakemore

On Friday the 18^th of March the VCAL students participated in Clean up Australia Day. We started off at Limeburner’s Point and finished off at Eastern beach. We all split off into 4 small groups and went our separate ways. The weather started off great but soon turned terrible with rain, the whole class got soaking wet on our walk back to the buses. We all collected quite a lot of rubbish. My group found a lot of empty drink containers, cigarette butts and loose plastics.

We had a member of the public come up to us and ask us if it was Clean up Australia today, I said no it wasn’t it was on the 6th March but our school is doing it today to help keep the community clean and tidy and to help clean up rubbish instead of letting it go in the ocean and hurt our poor animals. Overall, I think we did a good job to collect as much rubbish as we could in the short time we had. We could have gotten more if the rain didn’t have a mind of its own and stopped us. Clean Up Australia Day is a great cause and I’m very proud to be one of the people to help and protected the environment. 

Even if you can’t clean up you can donate and that will help out a lot. 

Here is some feedback from a few of our staff and students on how the day went.

Bella B – “I think today was successful and fun, we worked productively as a group and the only thing that turned out negatively was the weather. We got rained on but still stayed positive throughout the day.”

Tahlia B – “Today was a great day, I had heaps of fun with my group, we picked up a lot of rubbish which was great, but we did see some really gross and smelly stuff. We had a great experience helping our environment.”

Georga D – “Today we picked up a lot of rubbish for our environment. All the small groups got a lot of rubbish, I felt like it went really well and we all put the effort in to tidy up the area. We did the best we could do with the weather conditions.”

Ms Mary – “I thought the day went very well. All the students who attended got involved and were picking up rubbish. Despite the rain, students stayed positive and happy.”

Mark Smith Author Talk
Written by Ruby-Rose

On the 15th of March the Year 9 students got the amazing opportunity to talk with the author of the road to winter trilogy (The road to winter, Wilder country, Land of fences) by Mark Smith. The students were able to get inciting knowledge from the author himself. He spoke about his journey of becoming an author, and about his feelings regarding the books supplied by the school's curriculum. The year 9’s asked thought provoking questions that helped them get an insight on not only his process of writing the books, but also the themes in the book.
Ruby-Rose

Our intermediate tennis team showing resilience and dedication yesterday, practicing in conditions that weren’t ideal!

Apollonian Gaskets and Fractals from Class 73 late last week (also known as fun Maths drawings!)

The year 9/10 Food class whipped up a delicious Honey & Lemon Chicken stir fry on Wednesday 16th March.