Year 7 Update

We have had an unforgettable start to Senior School. We have met many new friends who started at Somerset this year.

Camp at Mt Tamborine was so much fun and we gained many life skills such as resilience, risk taking and problem solving which were excellent attributes we drew upon in Term Two during Somerset at home on Zoom.

This term, we have continued many of the units we began last term. In IAS, we have studied Mungo Man and Mungo Lady and how the indigenous people and scientists had rivalries and disagreements, due to a lack of communication and their two different perspectives. In groups we created news reports and documentaries regarding the two different perspectives.

In Maths, we are continuing to learn more about algebra and what like terms, pronumerals, terms and expressions are. In Science, this term we started a new unit about solids, liquids and gases. In the lab, we created slime and recorded observations and data about the characteristics of each form of matter.

In English, we continued to read our novels including The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, My War Diary and Surviving Hitler. In class, we have been practising writing for our essay in which we will explain how the characters in the book experienced challenges such as discomfort, splitting up of family and friends while some also displayed initiative and ignorance.

We are now getting ourselves ready to try our best for the last athletics events of the term and are looking forward to going back in time to ancient Egypt in the very near future.