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Athletics Carnival

Easter Assembly

Mother’s Day

Easter Assembly Term 1

Event Documentation & Media by Haziel Antonio and Owen Arnold.

It’s been a long nine weeks, warming into school, but it went by quick. Ending the term on a good note, Emmanuel held a whole school easter assembly.

The assembly kicked off with a praise and worship, played by our dear Mrs Pascal and Ms Brett. With rows upon rows, it must’ve been pretty nerve racking! 

A warm and loud welcome to Pastor Warren Young, who started continuing the good mood of the assembly with laughter and his great jokes, we talked about what makes Easter so special and the hard sacrifices made by Jesus to show his love for us. 

Many classes wanted to end the year well by showing and sharing what they did in class. ¾ made candle holders and followed it up with a lovely song, Light of the world. And drawings done by the grade six class following the seasons, great art!

And a Congratulations to the term one staff award winners, Mrs Brett, Ms Lyle and Mrs French.

Finally ending up the assembly with delicious hot cross buns served to all grades and parents, the last day of term one came to an end.

Have a great easter from Emmanuel and the Media crew!

28/03 Interschool Chess Tournament

(Written by Owen Arnold & Haziel Antonio.)

On Tuesday 28th March, our chess inquiry group ventured to the chess interschool tournament at MacKillop Catholic College. With Mr.Skierka running the emmanuel inquiry chess team, they ventured to play chess with other schools.

With a tough finish, friends school ended up winning, but good sportsmanship is always important, so congrats to them! We went over and asked some questions referring to the tournament and here were the general answers.

It was a great day for the chess club, many students were able to see others they knew and even went against some. The way the tournament worked was everyone going against each other, if you were to win you’d continue to go against someone else who won! If you were to lose, well you’d go against another who lost. There were 7 rounds of games, unfortunately, emmanuel lost in both categories.

Secondary Athletics Carnival

On the 23rd March 2021, the Athletics Carnival took place, Though it was very challenging everything went smoothly with Meehan taking the win! Throughout the event, we had 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500.
A special thanks to Mr. M, the judges, the scorers, and all other staff for their hard work throughout the day.

Meehan’s points  - 1290

Droughty’s points - 1090

Written by Caeleb Hill in Media Crew.

High School Inquiry Sessions

Inquiry is a time where students get the opportunity to do things other than their usual classes. In Term 1, there have been a variety of different options in Inquiry. These consist of Food Bank, Media Crew, Peer Support, Basketball, National History Challenge, Musical Group, and Crime scene investigations..

In Food Bank, they have been focussing on going to the Food Bank centre in Derwent Park to help disadvantaged people afford to pay for food themselves. Our students have been packing up food packages with the Food Bank to send out to homes. 

In Peer Support, the Year 10s have paired up with Year 7s to help ease their transition into high school. They have been doing a series of activities and scenarios in order to help them understand what to do if they get stuck or need help.

The National History Challenge is a national challenge which students take part in every year. This year, students have been allowed extra time in Inquiry to work on their challenge in order to make their work to the best standard possible. 

The Musical Group is one of the options in Inquiry as well. This is a group where students can express themselves in music and focus more on learning their instruments. This creates a good opportunity for students to do something that they enjoy and feel passionately about. 

Basketball is also one of the options in Inquiry. The students are learning more about the game and certain tactics that they can use in the game. This is a great opportunity for the students to learn more about the game and have a physical option for inquiry.

Crime Scene is an opportunity for students to learn more about how crimes are solved and what evidence is collected. It gives students the knowledge about the key elements of a crime, what evidence is collected, how crimes are solved and what the layout of a crime scene would look like. 

Last but not least there is the group of students working in the Media Crew.  This small group of students will be working on providing you with content and updates here and elsewhere.  Working with video programming, editing and blogging and other media.  We look forward to providing you with regular updates as the year progresses.

Addison Bean (Media Crew CEO)

Footy Colours Day

By Jack Faulkner

On the fourth of September, students participated in footy colours day. This day is in support of fighting cancer. Students did a gold coin donation in support the charity. Primary students participated in a handball competition and a longest kick competition. Some of the Primary Students were even given awards for best dressed!

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Student vs Teacher Basketball Match

By ANONYMOUS

Going into playing against the teacher team we went in with the attitude of absolutely destroying them, but we were completely wrong to think so. The teachers put up quite a fight, we underestimated them greatly, as old as they are … they played with passion and contempt with the mindset of obliterating each student that stood in their path. Overall it was a great afternoon and everyone who participated enjoyed themselves.

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Ground-breaking Developments

By J. Pecl

If you’ve been to Emmanuel recently, you may have noticed the large fences that block off the courtyard, which is in the process of being torn up. This is because the school is receiving some ground-breaking development, in the form of a shiny, brand new $690,00 courtyard. 

The courtyard is being resurfaced, as the pavers were coming loose, and the roots of trees were growing rampant, presenting tripping hazards. All of the problematic trees are being removed from the courtyard, and the pavers are being replaced.

The courtyard is being remade with the goals of beautification and functionality in mind. Because of this, the courtyard will have fake turf, as well as a mixture of aggregate and cement. The courtyard will be fitted with new picnic tables, and the two large trees near the library will be kept in their positions. It should be noted that a water feature was planned, but was ultimately deemed too expensive and scrapped.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. How long will the courtyard take to be built? Building commenced on the 27th of July, and, assuming all goes well, will be done in 16 weeks of the construction beginning.

That’s all for this article! Thank you for reading, and goodbye!

GRIP leadership conference

By E.Roberts

A couple of weeks ago the ECS student leaders had the opportunity to attend the GRIP leadership conference, chaperoned by the amazing Mrs Berry. Mr Smith was the other responsible adult who drove us all there, which we’re grateful for. 

GRIP is run all over Australia for student leaders from hundreds of different schools. The event was held in a function room at the DEC, and it was a pretty full room, there were about five or more student leaders from every school. At the start, there were a few ice-breaking games and fun introductions. The first statement made was, “It’s natural for people to look to others to lead the way.”

There were a few electives to choose from, so we made sure a few of our student leaders were going to each so that we could learn the most. In between socialising Tait even managed to listen into one that was running during our break time!? (Which the teachers spent inside eating good food…). 

The electives were entitled:

• Making Meetings Effective

• Leading Exciting Events (my favourite)

• Leading a Team of My Peers

• Leading with Engaging Speeches

• & Leading in Positive Partnership with Teachers

Some main points that made me think were the points about priorities and setting them. The speakers got us to think about where the priorities were in our own schools. This was to get the ball rolling so that we would begin to think about areas we may need to put more emphasis on, and also areas where or priorities may not quite be in the right place. For example, people before projects. 

In the end, we were encouraged to walk around the room and ask other student leaders their main tips for leadership. The best one I heard was actually from someone I already knew….

“Don’t abandon ideas just make them better” ~ Lindy 

Overall the day went extremely well, and I think everyone took something away from it. We all learnt some valuable skills for leadership and were inspired by what we’d heard. Next student leader meeting we were all bustling to organise events and get peoples opinions on our new ideas. In my opinion, Mrs Berry just learnt how to not give in to the copious amounts of requests to go to McDonald’s on the way home. 

Be sure to look out for what the student leaders are doing around the school, and what changes they may be making behind the scenes, there is plenty in store!