Year 7 Big Ideas

Thursday the 24 October saw the Year 7's board two buses to Kolbe Catholic College in Rockingham and Corpus Christi in Bateman.  The purpose of this trip was to gain an understanding about what LIFE is like at an established college, to compare our LIFE with others and to enable us to make informed predictions about what our future LIFE and school might look like.


Our students had the opportunity to survey students and tour the school, looking at the grounds and the classrooms.  While our two groups were in two different places we were tweeting #hccbigideas what we saw, this enabled both groups to gain knowledge about two different places.

When we gathered back at school together in our own Da Vinci space we had an interesting time meeting up with our pillar group - Learning, Inter-relationships, Faith and Enrichment to share our experiences and observations.

Where to next for Year 7 Big Ideas? We have to interpret our data gathered on our excursion and use everything we know to predict the future LIFE at HCC.  In the weeks to come we will produce 3D models with our predictions that cover our pillars and these will be placed in a time capsule and emailed to ourselves in the future, to be opened when our current Year 7's are in their final year at school in 2018.  Will our predictions, dreams and plans come true? WATCH THIS SPACE.

Ms Jayne McNae
Year 7 Team Leader

Senior School Information Evening

The College Senior School information night will begin at 6pm in the College LRC this evening. All Year 10, 11 and 12 have been invited to attend.

Our key focus will be in the areas of learning, prerequisites and subject selections, curriculum enrichment week, exams and christian service learning.

We hope to see as many of you there as possible. There will be lots of opportunities for questions and time for students choosing the ONISTE program to explore this further.

Ms Walmsley
Assistant Deputy Principal - Learning

What is the future LIFE at Holy Cross College? Year 7 Big Ideas

Our Year 7 students begun the Big Ideas journey this term to explore the big question 'What is the future LIFE at Holy Cross College?' with a short walk up the hill to sketch our current school and the spaces that we have.

Students have spent week one learning about the LIFE of teachers when they attended school, they are currently examining their own LIFE and the LIFE of the college, looking at how we utilise our spaces in the college and which pillar they fall under.

This week they will create a survey to gather data and information from other students who attend established schools and understand what their LIFE is like at school.

Over the coming weeks our Year 7's will interpret the data and information they gather to make informed predictions about what our LIFE will be like in the future. Students will be planning and creating 3D models of our school and placing them into a time capsule and emailing them to ourselves when we are in Year 12 in 2018.

So, what is the future LIFE of Holy Cross College?

Year 8 Big Ideas

‘Bringing Back the Renaissance!’

This term in Year 8 Big Ideas, the students will be attempting to ‘Bring Back the Renaissance!’ 

Inspired by Renaissance men such as Da Vinci, Galileo, Shakespeare and Newton, students will be undertaking a Challenge Based Learning Project to create their own inventions. These inventions will be attempting to demonstrate the Renaissance values of innovation, creativity, usefulness, relevance and longevity. This project will contribute to the core curriculum areas of History and Science.

To facilitate this project, Year 8 students are asked to begin collecting the materials they need for their inventions, in time for construction in Week 3.

We look forward to a challenging and exciting term full of wonderful discoveries!

Miss Kelly Bond

Year 8 Team Leader

Year 10 Well Being Days

Puberty, drugs, alcohol, stress management and connections were all important parts covered in our Health and Well Being day's for the Year 10 students. On Monday and Tuesday the students took part in workshops and seminars related to health topics that are age specific for our students.

On Monday, Holly Ann Martin from Safe4Kids ran separate workshops for the boys and girls on protective factors and how our online image is not always true. Holly helped the students indicate five key adults in their lives that they could go to for help. The students also looked at posting, tagging and comments on social media not reflecting their true self. The legal aspects in regards to cyber bullying and sexting was a discussion point with the students.

On Tuesday,  the students also looked at stress management techniques such as yoga and meditation which involved relaxing music and breathing techniques. The day was concluded with some fun connection/ team work activities that helped the students understand the importance the act, belong and commit slogan.

Thanks
Ms Bond

Year 8: Back to New Norcia Experience

This term in Big Ideas the Year Eights have been researching the history of Dom Salvado and the monastery community of New Norcia. A selection of Holy Cross College students presented their historical journals of landmarks in New Norcia and their tourist attraction video to Abbot John and the Monks of the monastery on a day trip, Thursday 26 September. 

The historical journals which have been created by the students tell the stories of famous landmarks in the New Norcia community and how they have changed over time. The students were able to collected detailed accounts of the times and people that influenced each landmark during Curriculum Enrichment Week back in New Norcia. A tourist video specifically aimed at a particular type of tourist group such as the foodie, artist/ architectural and religious tourist was also created by the students and presented to the Monks. 

The presentation to members of the New Norcia community enabled the students to develop their public speaking skills and allowed the students to have an authentic audience that provided them with genuine feedback. The students also attended mid day prayers with the Monks which was a memorable and moving experience for all. 

Thanks

Ms Bond 

 Year 8 Team Leader

Italian Language Perfect Competition

LANGUAGE PERFECT CHALLENGE 2013

Holy Cross College participated in the 2013 Language Perfect Challenge  during August. 

The competition was open to all primary and secondary schools of Western Australia. Thousands  of students played for the 31 days Competition in many different languages.

Congratulations to our Tiffany Casali (Year 7) who completed the challenge in an excellent eighth position followed by Alou Ajang (Year 7) and Adrian Mallard (Year 8). 

A big thank you to these students and all the students at Holy Cross College for their hard work and time.

Challenge finished with Holy Cross College in seventh position.

Well done!!

Mrs Amatulli

27 September 2013