Year 7 Science
Year 7 have been practicing their scientific skills such as accurate measurement, lab safety and experimental procedure this term by completing a range of experimental activities. Students then obtained their Bunsen burner licenses and commenced performing experiments such as measuring the temperature at which water boils.
Year 8 Science and Agriculture
Year 8 Science has been investigating the nature of forces and how they are utilised in the world around us. Mr Bergquist, Miss Conn and Mr Gruber pit 8R, 8T and 8D against each other to see which class could muster the strength to tip the unbalanced forces in their favour in a grand contest. Mrs Dunstan’s 8E held their own in-house competition to determine the strongest among their classmates.
Year 9 Science and Agriculture
In Science, Year 9 have been researching a variety of diseases across history and the discoveries of treatments and preventative technologies used to combat their spread. In demonstrating how germs and bacteria spread, students established their own colonies of bacteria by sampling common surfaces and achieved some great results.
Year 10 Science and Agriculture
Year 10 Science students have been conducting first hand investigations into a variety of chemical reactions, analysing how certain chemicals react to yield predictable products.
In Agriculture, students are preparing for their practical work on rearing sheep as part of their current module.
Senior Science and Agriculture
While Year 11 students have taken the first few weeks to settle into their new senior subjects, Year 12 have been working vigorously in their HSC content. 12 Chemistry students have performed an investigation into determining the identities of cyclohexane and cyclohexene using bromine water.
