The journey began with a fun bus trip to Mt Cootha, early nervousness was soon forgotten as we drove up the M1. Once at the Botanical Gardens we had a perfect picnic lunch and a chance to stretch our legs before the big moment.
At the Planetarium we were fortunate to see a REAL spacesuit, meteors, model space crafts and International Space Station.
The walkway to our sitting area had amazing pictures and facts about all the planets we had been learning about. Once inside the theatre we flew through space visiting the sun, moon and planets.
Our day was OUT OF THIS WORLD!
The students dressed for the occasion in ancient Egyptian clothing and presented their artefacts to the ‘Pharaohs’ before displaying them in the ‘Museum of Antiquities’.
The standard of models was very high this year and every student put a lot of creative thought into these and their costume designs.
The Ancient Egyptian games of Mehen, Senet, the clay amulets stamped with hieroglyphs, viewing the podcast on how technology today is unlocking the mysteries of mummies and the taste of Egyptian food samples were enjoyed by all.
A big ‘thank you’ to all staff who provided that ‘extra touch’ to ensure the day was a huge success.
Somerset College will send two teams to the Mayor’s Telstra Technology Awards' finals.
These students are:
This week, these student finalists attended the first of three mentoring sessions with Study Gold Coast at the Gold Coast Innovation Hub at Robina. This week's mentoring topic was entrepreneurship with Dr Baden U'Ren at Bond University. Students had the opportunity to practice their pitching skills, and learn the critical factors of entrepreneurship.
The MYP Sustainable Spartans have shown incredible teamwork in organising a Wildlife Awareness week and Teddy Bear Drive for Week 10. This initiative was presented at assembly to the Junior students and will be delivered to Senior students next week. The plan is to collect the teddies from Tuesday to Thursday.
Wildcare has requested wool blankets, polar fleece, flannelette sheets and quilted bedspreads, towels and other fabrics are not needed. These will be collected along with pre-loved plush toys during next week's Teddy Bear Drive organised by the MYP Sustainable Spartans.
Donations can also be made direct to Wildcare Australia through their website.
Granite Belt Wildlife Carers urgently need supplies to help them care for rescued animals. This can be done by purchasing Stanthorpe Emergency Wildlife Rescue Supplies via the Green Heroes website.
**Some of the most common reasons why native animals need to be rescued include: **
Mr Clark (parent of Christopher and Evelyn) explained to us the size and weight of the enormous truck and the trailer truck called, the dog.
We learnt just how important a job the truck and the team at Boral are in finding ways to help the Community. Our PYP Unit of Inquiry for this term in Pre-Prep is 'Communities find ways to help and support one another'.
Thank you Mr Clark for this very exciting and interesting visit. We each had a turn to sit in the cabin and behind the wheel.
The Fire Department visited us for a short period also. They were called to attend a bush fire in the Valley.
These are memorable and valuable experiences for the young learner.
In class, we’ve been learning how to show our displays in a creative and smart way. We’ve created board games, questionnaires, brochures, power points and lots more. Many of us have also connected with the broader community as part of our action.
Another project assigned to us was our written component. Although we may choose to not display it, we have worked really hard to include as much information as we can to our written genre of choice.
Now... a t-shirt design hint! This design includes a tree and two sides showing our lives verses the less fortunate. The t-shirt designers are, Capri Bindra, Amelie Millar-Martin, Illia Dunworth and Adriana Smith. They have done a wonderful job on the t-shirts and we can’t wait to wear them at the special event.
Hopefully, you are intrigued in our PYP process. Creating visual and interactive displays, written components, scratch games, videos and biographies can be hard and tiring, but we hope we’ll entertain you in the upcoming PYP Exhibition.
See you there!
We have donated $2000 cash to Room to Read, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving girl’s literacy in developing countries. For young girls in the most underserved parts of the world, staying in school longer means they are more likely to build a smaller and healthier family, lower their probability of contracting HIV, and earn a higher wage. They are also more likely to marry later and educate their own children — ending the cycle of illiteracy in one generation. Our donation will keep six girls in school for a year, truly life-changing!
Once again, we are pleased to be able to donate a selection of picture books to the children at Mudgeeraba Special School.
We have also added a stack of picture books, chapter books, graphic novels, non-fiction books, toys, games and more to our Somerset College Junior Library.
Thank you to everyone who supported our 2019 Book Fair, your generosity and support is greatly appreciated.
Next Thursday, 19 September the KIP is hosting our fifth annual National Reading Hour Pyjama Party. The Reading Hour promotes the importance of reading and storytelling as critical life skills. To celebrate, children are invited to wear their PJ’s and share some stories in the KIP from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Pizza and some refreshments will be available for children and parents as well. This year we have an extra special surprise in store for the children!
Please come and enjoy the end of Term Three at Reading Hour! For catering purposes, we do ask that you RSVP by Tuesday 17 September by clicking here.
Now is also the perfect time to organise your holiday reading. Holidays are so much better with books and we do encourage students to borrow over the break (providing they have no current overdues).We are happy to help students and parents get started with eBooks and Audiobooks, too, they are great space-savers if you’re travelling. Please feel free to pop into the KIP and speak to Information Services Staff. We can also recommend fantastic books for all ages, interests and reading levels, we have something to suit everyone!
All the players are involved, they attack and defend. The number of passes is increased and therefore the one-touch control, one-touch pass sequence is used all the time. Tournaments have taken place on the Common.
From Week 2 until Week 8 the Junior students have played in the 4v4 Lunchtime Football League. In this league we had boys and girls playing. The Co-ordinator of Football has received four team nominations. The nominated teams called: Liverlona, The Beasts, The Boss and Yeet.
Every week they battled for their win. Each team has versed each other in their group stage. After the group, we went into the finals. In the Grand Final Liverlona played against the The Beasts.
Liverlona came out the winners. It was a great job from the Year 4 students Caspar Crampton, Nicholas Klaassen, Nash Kennedy and Jack Walker. The winners were awarded with a Football. We hope to see you back next year to defend your title!
In Term One, Somerset teamed up with Legacy and the First XV squad spent a Saturday cleaning up a war widow’s backyard in Mudgeeraba.
Legacy helps people young and old with a range of services including financial and physical aid.
Our venue for the luncheon was HOTA, Home Of The Arts, where we listened to a variety of speakers who helped us better understand the role of Gold Coast Legacy and the impact of war. In fact, the guest speaker, Dr Brendan Nelson spoke about how the Australian War Memorial is a place of ‘love’ not ‘war’. Upon reflection, this made sense. The memorial exists to reflect and remember those fallen in war and at the same time, it represents the love for your mates, love for your family and love of your country.
In an amazing speech, Dr Nelson explored themes such as mateship, courage, honour and character, shedding light and his knowledge of these topics. He spoke about how the loss of family members to war affected others, and how important it is to assist not only financially, but psychologically too. Many family members can suffer from hidden trauma long after the years of their loved ones passing.
We found Dr Nelson’s speech to be the highlight of the afternoon and we were hooked from the start. His 40 minute talk happened too quickly. There are many lessons to be learnt from wars and we hope our MYP studies next year will help us understand and gain a deeper appreciation.
To conclude, we all had an experience we will never forget and more importantly, we now better understand the role of Legacy in our community. We look forward to working alongside them in future backyard clean-ups. Mr Walker, thank you for this amazing opportunity!
We took the opportunity to look at current campaigns that are happening around the world, what makes them successful and how they effectively conveyed their message to their audience. We then selected one Sustainable Development Goal and created a campaign based on that.
My group selected climate action and proposed that sustainable legislation was implemented in society and looked deeply at lobbying the government into reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We also proposed the banning of major companies purchasing students' ideas/inventions based around sustainability as these ideas are generally mistreated and disregarded by the big companies purchasing them. We then had to present our ideas to the group and were asked questions about our idea.
Overall, I learnt a lot from this workshop and am extremely grateful for the opportunity!
In total, six students were awarded Distinction certificates and four students were awarded Credit certificates. Three students were awarded High Distinction certificates, of which two of these achieved in the 100 percentile rank.
Clare Hong (Year 11) sat the same paper as the Year 12 students and was awarded a Prize. A prize is awarded generally to no more than 1 student for every 300 students within their year group.
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