Strategic Plan 2021 and Beyond

Year 7

In year 7 we’ve experienced and explored new things such as different classes, teachers and new ways of learning. It’s been great being together again as a class. Some highlights of this year have been, cooking crepes in French, Athletics Day, IHA and eating the crepes.

We started the year with our own computers, learning how to use Math Pathways, google classroom, and digital art. As it turned out these skills helped during home learning in lockdown. PVIS@Home had its own challenges but the Assembly and IHA challenges helped keep us entertained. During the year we have had access to the science lab. We all gained our Bunsen burners licence and had great fun completing a range of experiments. We learnt different ways of separating solutions using filtering.

We have had a year of discovery, we learnt about ancient civilisations, historical events and how these events have impacted on our lives today. Dressing up, making pinch pots and duologues were the highlights of art. While poetry, speeches and Wonder held our interest over the year for English.

We would like to thank all of our teachers for a great start to our first year of high school.

Year 8

2022 was yet another fantastic year for our class. Our second year of secondary schooling meant harder work and multiple obstacles here and there, but the Year 8s toughened up, and faced the challenges head-on, all while enjoying themselves. Term 1 and 2 were a little different due to home learning and Covid restrictions but we still participated in many enjoyable activities. During online learning we experimented with creating digital artworks and made digital mosaics and face portraits. A highlight for many in term 2, was the Public Speaking event, even though the speeches were filmed and recorded digitally for the first time. Term 3 soon came along, and it was a busy term, filled with exciting events including: Athletics Day, Independence celebrations, Book Week, the Chalk Art Competition, and Cricket Tournaments. Then there were the highlights from each of our subjects, including novel studies, art printing projects, and creative science projects on Body Systems. The Year 8 class even got the opportunity to create picture books for the little students of Years 1-2! Term 4 arrived, and was just as jam-packed as the previous terms and provided so many engaging experiences from learning poetry with Ms Verbeke, making murals in art, working on the class dance for the End of Year Concert, to those little parts of each day, like enjoying the morning teas and breaktimes. 2022 has been a year to remember and we cannot wait for what next year brings!