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CASTERTON Secondary College held another hugely successful house athletics carnival on Friday, with 10 students recognised for their outstanding efforts on the day. Age group champions, pictured, are (back, L-R) 15 Years, Indi Longhurst and Dylan Munro, 12-13 Years, Nate Longhurst and Makayla Rees, 14 Years, Archie Lane and Kirby Vise, (front, L-R) 16 Years, Sid Herbert and Madeline Patton and 17-20 Years, Marissa Jamieson and Riley Munro. The most successful house on the day was Wannon, with 1416 points, runner-up Glenelg earned 1090 points and Wannon received 1042 points.

By Admin

March 16, 2022 | 1:51 PM

Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart students step-up for clean up day

ZOE, YLANA AND OWEN, SHS PUBLICITY TEAM & MS COONEY

(LEFT) ALEESHA Kaur and Isabella Killey doing their bit in Clean Up Australia Day; (RIGHT) GEORGE Robbins was lucky enough to be included in the staff fire training last week.

SACRED Heart students stepped up to clean up on Schools Clean Up Day last Friday.

The junior students cleaned up around the main school grounds, the playground and gardens.

They found plastic packages, paper and some wire and small pieces of coloured plastic.

They were happy that our school was very clean.

The senior students cleaned up around the school boundary, the oval, the churchyard, the tennis court and the surrounding streets.

Interesting things they found included wire, a tyre, a mask, some building materials including nails and screws and some plastic water bottles.

The senior students also sorted and counted the waste for the Clean Up Australia Day waste report.

We found 222 pieces of waste, which is less than last year.

It shows that the community and our students are making sure that waste goes in the bin and not thrown into our environment.

Our waste free lunch boxes and REDCycle soft plastic collection really help us reduce our waste at school.

DISTRICT swimming age group champs Marlee Robbins, Brody O’Connell, Lexi Withers and Zoe Withers.

Swimming success

THIS week, on Monday, 11 people from our school competed in the district swimming competition in Casterton.

Zoe Withers, Marlee Robbins, Brody O'connell and Lexi Withers all got age champion and went home with shiny new medals!

Everyone from our school had fun and tried their best even though the weather was a bit cold.

Promoting peace

ON TUESDAY, 22 February, it was the celebration of 100 years of Rotary and Adele Murphy, Jayden Godfrey, George Robbins and April Henty-Anderson all participated in the event.

“It was really fun; I had a part to read out and the food was delicious!” April said.

“It was good, we heard people speak in lots of different languages,” Jayden said.

“Pretty good, except there were a lot of people!” said Adele.

“It was super fun! We were given a book called ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes’. We are going to reading it in our reading group sessions. We were also told that if we made a thousand paper cranes (the bird not the machine) we would be granted one wish!” George said.

The ceremony took place at the Peace Pole next to the Glenelg River.

The peace pole represents peace between the nations after the world wars.

Two-Two Day

LAST Tuesday was the 22nd of the 2nd 2022 - a very cool date!

It is a palindrome, which means it can be read both forwards and backwards like the word GLENELG!

And it is also an ambigram - you can type it into a calculator, turn it upside down and it will read the same!

We did lots of activities about the number two and palindromes and our teachers all wore tutus for the day!

MERINO CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL

JOY GALULA & CHARLI WILLIAMS

Plenty of hands-on learning and fun at Merino Consolidated

STUDENTS from Dartmoor, Sacred heart and Merino got together for a fun and exciting plank excursion in our own school!

(LEFT) JUDD Fidler and Theo Nicholl getting planning with their planks; (RIGHT) CHARLI Williams and Joy Galula getting creative in the kitchen with fresh ingredients from the school’s garden.

Cam (a planks expert) who came from a long journey showed us how it’s done.

We built tall and amazing towers.

Some succeeded some may have also failed.

But one thing’s for sure ‘never give up great, things can take time so be patient and keep going!’.

Later on, after snack we crafted our own meditating masks filled with dried lavender and rose petals.

Soon we took part in yoga with Ms S to calm ourselves and feel much more relaxed or (at least some of us did) others broke their backs, but it sure gave us serotonin.

But soon it was time to say goodbye and farewell to all our new friends.

It was a great experience to socialise and meet new friends!

Cooking

SINCE the beginning of the year we have been cooking lots of food for lunch on Fridays.

So far we’ve cooked chicken satay, salmon fish fingers, sausage rolls and last week it was chicken wings.

We split up into two groups and one group of students go to Hands on Learning and others do some gardening and then then go off to cook in the kitchen.

Each week we always use the vegetables that we grow from the garden.

English

WE HAVE been learning how to write narratives this year and I always love the way Ms Hulin teaches us writing.

She makes it so much fun and we always laugh a lot in class!

This week we’ve been working on lots of grammar to make our stories correct. It’s a bit difficult because we have been working on very hard grammar, but I know it will be good when we use it in our stories.