Outdoor Ed Students are looking forward to their camp in week 9 including canoeing, fishing, walking and taking a break from normal school proceedings.

Friday marks an important part of the transition for our current and future students, including our grade 9s, as they spend the day in the year 10 space, being oriented by next year’s grade 10 teachers.

In science, we concluded a unit on Asexual and Sexual Reproduction and have moved on to the more sombre unit of Earth’s Spheres, including topics like the carbon cycle and climate change.

 Mrs Farrs’s science students determining the mass of carbon stored in our trees

Maths sees us revisiting the topic of probability, which is familiar to students from previous years, but naturally bumping it up to a year 9 level. A focus of the year 9 curriculum for this topic is the ability to compare probabilities, requiring students make conversions and practice their skills of comparison to provide evidence for judgements.

In maths intervention, we are revising the skill of “order of operations”, where students use the mnemonic BIDMAS to solve expressions. As part of this we are also giving students the opportunity to improve their skills with multiplying/dividing and adding/subtraction negative numbers and reinforcing the skill of setting out problems. This year in maths, students have no doubt noticed the increasing complexity of the equations they are working with, and our data showed that it was time to revisit these skills.

Respectful students of the week. Year 9 staff would like to acknowledge the respectful behaviour of:

• 9A: Zara
• 9B: Ellah 
• 9C: Jackson 
• 9D: Samuel 
• 9E: Chloe