Enhancement

Enhancement at Mazenod is a journey laden with possibility. Each year, our high achieving students are identified and invited to undertake Enhancement pathways, relevant to their interests and abilities, that will push them to discover and achieve their true potential. Talented teachers in every department inject their passion for learning into courses designed to challenge and provoke students who must rise to the occasion.

Happily, 2021 has treated our Enhancement students very well, despite its fraught context. Across the board, our fresh Year 7 intake has proven precociously talented. In General Enhancement, the young men of Mazenod did their school proud in battling other gifted and talented cohorts at the remotely-delivered Da Vinci Decathlon, in a series of academic and cognitive contests. Their journey for the year ends soon with a great test of their creativity through the Shared Stories anthology task.

Meanwhile, Mr Moore’s Enhancement History groups have been busy laying the groundwork for sterling results in the future through their studies of Alexander the Great and Richard the Lionheart. A very special congratulations to Matthew Curran, who achieved a High Distinction at the Australian History Competition, in which the Year 9 Enhancement History cohort competed. The cohort, as a whole, achieved excellent results, Mr Tranter’s General Enhancement classes in Years 8 and 9 have also been very busy, cultivating the abilities of our most talented writers and creatives, of whom we expect great success in the years to come. We are pleased to end our report for 2021 with the words of Ryan Pereira of Year 9, the writer of a brilliant research essay on the cultural impact of Bob Marley, who describes his experience of writing it in Enhancement History this year:

“The research essay was unique in the sense that the topic was self-chosen and that the research itself was completed individually. The research essay assisted in presenting a particular opinion on a topic which we were interested in and helped us to educate an audience about it. Overall, Enhancement History in Semester 1 was a great and unique experience that allowed for many skills in analysing and research to be gained as well as confidence in learning, in general.”

For many of our Junior and Senior students, the next leg of the journey now looms, as Enhancement gears up for a busy, productive and enjoyable 2022.

Mladen Spasic Head of Faculty