Year 7 News – 14 August 2025

 Year 7 students are achieving success in all areas!

Subject Selection Due Friday 15 August

A reminder that subject selections are due this week.

Recognition of Achievement Awards

Congratulations to the following students on an excellent Semester 1 across all of their learning areas. Their sustained effort in maintaining high academic standards is noticed and appreciated. An acknowledgment as well to Mr Corey Mylon, who constantly strives to see each student perform to their personal best.

Liam Gladman (Champagnat House Captain), Thomas Harris, Emma Heitbrink, Esme Mennen, Madeleine Marchment, Philipa Sibley, Ava Giblin (Champagnat House Captain), Mr Corey Mylon (Year 7 Religious Education, English and Humanities teacher)

NAIDOC Awards Ceremony – Congratulations Olivia
Well done to Olivia Parker, Year 7, who was nominated for the Youth Sportsperson Award in the 12–21 years old category of the NAIDOC Aboriginal Community Awards 2025. The award recognises young people who demonstrate commitment, leadership, fairness and achievements in sports activities. The presentation was held at a NAIDOC event on Friday 4 July, with Mr Stephen Korp and Mrs Renee McCaig, CMCB Koorie Education Workers also attending.

What’s Happening in STEAM?  Owl Pellet Investigations

I wandered into Mrs Robinson and Mrs Matthews’s STEAM class on an errand and was entirely captivated by the total engagement of all students in discovering the contents inside owl pellets, using reference charts. Their teamwork and excitement as they worked through dissecting the contents was too good not to share, so the camera came out to capture their smiling faces! This hands-on activity was a great example of the learning opportunities designed for our Year 7 students by their dedicated teachers in STEAM.

Mrs Sarah Cody, Year Level Learning Leader – Year 7

Owl Pellet Speech at Assembly

On Tuesday, during my STEAM lesson, my class and I were given the opportunity to dissect an actual owl pellet. Even though its gross, it teaches us about the food web in Biology.

Before we got hands on, we wore safety goggles, lab coats and disposable gloves. We used wooden sticks and tweezers, to open the owl pellet bit by bit, to reveal what is inside. It was hard, as the specimens were fragile, and the pellet was purely covered in undigested hair, but we persisted and collected interesting specimens, such as tiny ribs, forelimbs, and even skulls. However, there was some problems. Some bones were broken, and other owl pellets didn’t even have many  interesting things inside.

Fortunately, we uncovered a collection of skulls from common pests, such as rats and mice, and some interesting specimens like the mole and shrew, and small birds.

This is a fun activity to learn about the diet of not just the owl, but also the effect it brings to the entire animal kingdom, as a way of keeping the balance between prey and predator.

Riozelle Sawit, Year 7

Mrs Sarah Cody, Year Level Learning Leader

Mrs Hayley Lethlean and Mr Stephen Evans – Year Level Coordinators – Year 7