Grandparents & Special Friends Day

On Tuesday, 28 June our Year 7s hosted the annual Grandparents & Special Friends’ Day in inbarendi. The Year 7s enjoyed the company of their Grandparents and Special Friends over an action-packed morning of entertainment, student performances and morning tea, followed by a student led tour of the College. It was a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their learning and learning environment whilst spending quality time with their special guests. Sheri Deboy Middle School Wellbeing Leader

YEAR 8 HERITAGE DAY

On Tuesday, 6 September we held our Year 8 Heritage Day, in person for the first time since 2019. It was a real pleasure to have a large number of guests come into Cornerstone to spend the morning in conversation with their young relatives and share in morning tea before having a tour around the College. Heritage Day is a chance for students to spend some time in conversation with an older relative, discussing their guest’s past and learning more about their own heritage. Learning more about their own story. I love Heritage Day! Being able to hear small snippets of the stories being told and the questions being asked as I wander around. We think it provides a rich time to just sit and chat about the past, and compare what life used to be like to what life is like today. In my experience, the students find just as much pleasure and enjoyment in hearing the stories from the recent and distant past as the grandparents or guests find in telling them. The students will take what they learned from their relative and craft their own historical fiction. It is not just a recount of the past, but a re-telling with imaginative embellishments allowed, but still based around some historical truth. We hope that when these pieces of writing are finished, the students will share them with their guest and family so they can see what their imagination has conjured up. Rhett Fielke Middle School Learning Leader