Our Year 10 students participated in Challenge Day this week as part of The Rite Journey. It involved the classes discussing mindset and leadership, then heading off to rotations around the school to conquer various team challenges.

It was fantastic to see such a high level of enthusiasm, effort, teamwork and leadership amongst the students. All students showed great resilience and diligence working in challenging conditions towards the end of the day.  

Junior Speeches

Our Year 10 speech finalists were entertaining and compelling for the audience of their peers. The speeches were all at a very high standard which made it very difficult for our judges. Congratulations to all of the class representatives.

• 1st 10R - Cayla Engelbrecht - The earth is round
• 2nd 10C Addison Spiers - Me, myself and I
• 3rd 10i/T - Olive Hapuku - You don’t just wake up one day and have resilience

4-6th placements

• 10E - Charlotte Bidois - The truth about growing up
• 10Adv - Hunter Jones - Conformity
• 10D - Maclaine Stuart - What teens are missing out on

Year 9 Speeches

Six wonderful Year 9s presented their speeches on Cultural Interaction - an integrated topic between English and Social Studies. The standard was very high, with amazing memory work, gestures, language skills and delivery.

Their confidence belied their young age.

Well done to our place-getters:

• 1st Frances Gregory - Korean culture
• 2nd Paige Stringer - Cultural Diversity
• 3rd - Sophie Curry - American Stereotypes

And other stunning 4-6th place-getters:

• 9C - Zara Hoad - New Year Celebrations in Japan
• 9R - Tamarah Connolly - Stereotypes
• 9E - Summa Griffiths - Gender Equality