On Friday 14th February, the Humanities department was delighted to take sixty students to Portalworld in Joondalup for a reward excursion. Across Years 8 to 10, the top two students for Independent Study Quiz scores in each 2019 class were invited to enjoy virtual reality simulations and games. I would like to acknowledge the following students for their achievement.
Year 8
Kennedy Piper, Mataya Beckwith
Celise Hall, Stephen Dawson
Bailey Thompson, Jack Slade
Sophie Byrne, Chloe Pogson
Anastasia Chapman,
Kyle Gibson, Ava Rancatore
Jessie Hinde, James Paizes
Lily Chambers, Teagan Edwards
Liam Ash, Brandon Roe, Jodie Smith
Max Dawe, Jessica Moss
Year 9
Iwan Scrivens, Lauren Adam
Yassin Aly, Izzy Dall
Heinrich Windt
Olivia Banks, Marcus Manganaro
Abbey Palmer-Smith, Brady Reynolds
Kate Hopkins, Paige Sayers
Noah Tullett, Ryan Walizada
Kruz Dawe
Rory Coplin, Samuel Waddell
Ava Temple, Holly Barrett
Year 10
Yudhir Boodhram, Laila Peacock
Luca Anderson, Kayden Vearing
Finn Hudson-Wood, Ethan Banks
Olivia Noble, Andre Reguero-Puente
Harry Buck, Caleb Janotka-Mitchell, Brandon Reece
Tristan Corlett, Ella Cowup
Blake Carstens, Max Erkan
Elissa Ford, Freddie Lee
Erynn Morrissey, Mack Annett
For the students, this was a wonderful achievement and the Humanities staff is very proud of their diligence, endeavour and willingness to embrace an independent study culture. Developing such attitudes to school and life-long learning is a highly prioritised objective for the Humanities Department. We would also like to recognise the support and involvement of parents in this initiative through engaging with the model answers provided and making the time to discuss the material with their children. Fostering of such an attitude will stand the students in such good stead for post-secondary education and career trajectories.
Similar reward excursions will be run in 2020 on a semester basis for the top two placings in each class across Years 7 to 10. I sincerely hope that the competitive nature in each child in those year groups will emerge to contest for one of those places; and, in the meantime, a sense of efficacy and responsibility for learning will develop amongst our students.