Wangaratta High School Sharing wisdom Members of the school's amazing alumni recently returned to share their life experience and career journeys during the Alumni Career Insight Session held in May for year 10 careers students. Being able to ask questions and receive honest answers and advice from the alumni, who represented a broad range of vocational areas and interests, proved to be invaluable to the students who participated. * Wangaratta Primary School Discovery Day Grade 5/6 students from Wangaratta Primary School recently enjoyed a Discovery Day at Wangaratta High School. The visit gave students the chance to explore a variety of subjects and tour the impressive facilities, offering a valuable insight into high school life and building excitement for the years ahead. * Appin Park Primary School Up for the challenge Recent rain certainly didn’t dampen the enthusiasm for students to participate in some different physical challenges in their PE sessions. After breaking out some dance moves and workouts to Nutbush City Limits and Dance Monkey, the year 3 to 6 students were confronted with some challenging tasks, which included power efforts, balance, upper body strength and coordination. Initial reactions were laced with some trepidation, but that did not stop each student displaying great focus and determination to complete each activity to the best of their ability. Working on their core muscles, as well as their quads and upper body strength for the session, left not only a feeling of muscle fatigue and in some cases some very shaky legs, but also a great sense of achievement. * Carraragarmungee Primary School Show of support Students made blue cup cakes to help raise money for the Terry Floyd Foundation, and blue pins to wear, to show support for the foundation (as blue was Terry’s favourite colour). The school community has a close connection with Daryl Floyd, founder of the Terry Floyd Foundation (and Terry’s brother), and we are proud and honoured to be able to give something back to support the important work the foundation does for child safety. The school managed to raise $125, which is an impressive result considering the size of the school and the fact they did everything themselves. * Cathedral College Wangaratta Push-Up Challenge Staff and students thoroughly embraced the Push-Up challenge and have managed to raise over $8000. At lunchtime on the final day, students and staff managed to log over 10,000 push-ups (or alternate exercises) which was a wonderful effort by everyone. Well done on completing a difficult but worthwhile challenge, with a massive thank you going to Ms Hannah Wall and Mr Justin Perkins for bringing this challenge to the college. * QUIZ QUESTIONS: 1. How much carbon dioxide is there in one litre of air? Is it about a) half a cup, b) a teaspoon, c) half a millilitre, or d) about a grain of sand’s worth? 2. What does a meteorologist study? Is it a) asteroids and space rocks, b) atmosphere and weather, c) measurement and counting, or d) public transport? 3. What weighs more – a cup of sea water or a cup of fresh water? Is it a) sea water, b) fresh water, or c) they weigh the same? 4. Which atom is the lightest? Is it a) hydrogen, b) helium, c) aluminium, or d) water? 5. If you increase the volume of a sound by 10 decibels, how much more power does it have? Is it a) 10 per cent more, b) twice as much, c) 10 times as much, or d) 100 times as much? * QUIZ ANSWERS: 1. c) The atmosphere is about 0.04 per cent carbon dioxide. It’s almost 50 per cent more than before the Industrial Revolution. 2. a) Meteorology is the study of the atmosphere and weather. 3. a) Sea water has lots of dissolved salts, which makes it denser than fresh water. 4. a) Hydrogen atoms are the lightest. 5. c) A difference of 10 decibels means 10 times more power.
