In the Year 7 Advanced English class we have been learning about poetry. We learned that words can create a variety of emotions and tell stories within stories. Working with that idea, students found inspiration from a variety of texts, including Romeo and Juliet, Harry […]
Clonard College students in year seven Humanities have been examining water in the world as part of their Deep Learning Project: Why is water so important? Students collaborated with each other to research and analyse the different uses of water in our world and of […]
Year 8 English – Horror Character Descriptions Year 8s have been working on writing about character. It was also Bookweek dress-up day so the class was asked to dress up as the character they were writing about. Sienna Mc Innes So, the big old house […]
Each week we do garden jobs, like raking the leaves, feeding the chickens, pruning the kiwi fruit vine, pulling out weeds and planting plants. We checked the air temperature, soil temperature, water, and greenhouse temperature. We also check the moon phase each week, the garden conditions and time recorded. We go on fun trips. By Isabelle Birrell This term in garden […]
On Monday 10 May, we will hold our Subject Expo and Senior Years Information Night. The target audience for this evening is Year 8, 9 and, where relevant, Year 10 students along with their parents. If you attended the Senior Years Information Night last year, […]
The Year 10 PreCAL group in its entirety showed courage, faith and wonder in the time they took to prepare for this Assembly. They stood in front of the whole school and led the remembrance of our Australian fallen soldiers to remind all students of […]
Three Year 11 biology classes recently went on an excursion to the Marine biology centre in Queenscliff. In class, we had been learning about the different types of asexual production and got to apply this knowledge on our journey around the different rooms. – Lauren […]
On Tuesday 16 March, our Unit 3/4 Australian History class attended an excursion back in time to the Eureka Museum and Sovereign Hill Ballarat. The girls learned about pressures for change to the limited political rights which existed on the goldfields, the agitation for change […]
Year 8 Science classes have been exploring how Aboriginal art often takes inspiration from the natural world. Through their study of the microscope, students used microscope slides as an inspiration for a piece of art. The representation below is a pumpkin stem slide and the […]
NEW METRICS FOR SUCCESS // This year we are really excited to be a selected school working in partnership with the University of Melbourne to undertake a collaborative research venture addressing the problems faced by Australian schools today. This is an opportunity to reimagine schooling […]