Below are some of the ebooks Year 7 students have created in Science this year.
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 11 Prize Winners
Year 9 Class Photos
Year 9 Class Photos
English Language Learners
Hard Materials
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Digital Technologies
Computer Programming: With a Little Bit of Help
Rubber duck debugging - it's a real thing!
Senior Computer Science classes have been learning how to program in Python - a language used by software engineers in industry.
It is often difficult to find your own errors when you have a line of code incorrect, so students have been introduced to the concept of rubber duck debugging. It's helpful to explain your code to another person so you can find what isn't working and can then debug it. Instead of using another person (who is likely busy) you can use an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck. Typically as you are reading code to your duck you realise what the problem is and can correct it.
Junior Digital Technologies
The Year 9 class had the opportunity to work on a 'passion project' - a topic they wanted to learn more about. Some chose web design, Sketchup, animation, Scratch programming, vector graphics. It was great to see them enjoying their own learning.
Fabrics
Year 9
Year 10
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Prototype costumes designed and created by the Year 10 Fabric class. Ākonga were given a character brief to inform character sketches, before feedback from Ms Cruz helped refine the designs to suit the aesthetics of the intended performance.
Upcycling jeans into a fashion forward skirt
Food and Hospitality
Year 10
Year 11
These are photos of assessment dishes students have produced for a variety of unit standards. Hospitality unit standards usually have a 50:50 mix of theoretical work, which includes book work, other learning activities, and several practical dishes that relate to the unit standard. A dish is taught one week and assessed the following. To earn an Achieved for a practical, students must produce the dish independently to a high standard, following the recipe carefully with an emphasis on presentation. These students have excelled with these dishes.
Year 12
Junior Food Technology
Design and Visual Communication
Year 10DVC/DDM trainer
design by Gerzey Ashby.
Year 11 Design by Victor Escalante
Stained glass window design by
Mae Ebo, Year 10DVC/DDM
Year 12 DVC Chrome Book carrier
design by Angus Fraser
Gothic window drawings by
James Emerson and Jordan McGaughey
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photo taken at the DVC end of year trip
Linwood College Technology Centre
Creative CAD
During term 4, our modules were shortened due to Covid 19, so students were provided with a new task that only required four to six weeks to complete. The finished product was cut and engraved using the laser cutter.
Students were given a brief to design and create four original coasters and we looked at a number of different possibilities to achieve this. The students used their imagination and skills and their final outcomes reflected the diverse ways they meet the brief.
Feedback from students about their completed designs:
Finlagh: ‘This is my favourite class and I really enjoy the creativity and possibilities.’
Zek: ‘I was pleased how my coasters came out as a whole picture.’
Oscar: ‘I really liked learning LightBurn and watching the laser cutter.’
Luca: ‘I liked the finished product.’
Bonnie: ‘I liked making a wolf. I liked heating and bending the acrylic to make the coaster holder.’
Soft Materials - Fabrics
We have had an exciting year in the fabric’s rooms. The students have been busy developing their design and thinking skills to create useful outcomes that they can be proud of. We have had fantastic cushions and inspiring environmental messages on the tote bags. We are loving seeing the thoughtfulness and creativity that the students are putting into their outcomes.
Along with the foundation course the students have been making amazing tie-dyed bags, gorgeous masks to keep themselves safe, tablet holders, pencil cases, tablet covers, fabric toys, fabric baskets and a long-time favourite, haki sacs.
News from Room 13 Sustainable Design
This year Sustainable Design students continued to make tote bags with environmental messages. During this process students learn to apply designs to fabric using a lightbox, hot-press, applique and hand or machine embroidery.
The Year 8 St Anne’s School students showed their compassion and caring for others by embracing the request to make bags for the parish and school community. They looked fabulous and were gratefully received.
While last year students were greatly influenced by the young activist Greta Thunberg and her work around climate change, this year students took on topical issues such as Black Lives Matter and Covid 19.
Students also took part in a post lockdown Covid teeshirt design competition and some excellent fun was had reliving some of the lighter and more humorous aspects of lockdown.
Food Technology
It has been a fantastic, busy year in our foods rooms. Covid 19 confirmed that we are doing the right thing by placing so much importance on food safety procedures when handling food.
Our foods rooms are richer for having a diverse range of ethnicities working side by side. This provides fantastic opportunities for our students to work alongside and understand what is culturally important to families during their everyday lives. To support this our students have been having fun investigating and making foods from a variety of different countries. The hangi was a definite favourite.
