{"id":15933,"date":"2026-08-07T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/?post_type=article&#038;p=15933"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:03:02","slug":"gifted-and-talented-report-52","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/article\/gifted-and-talented-report-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted and Talented Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s happening in Gifted and Talented?<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Da Vinci Decathlon<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yr 8 students represented MSCW at the da Vinci Decathlon last term. The da Vinci Decathlon is an academic competition designed to challenge and stimulate the minds of school students. Students compete in teams of eight across 10 disciplines: engineering, mathematics, code breaking, art and poetry, science, English, ideation, creative producers, cartography and legacy. All students worked hard and boy were they challenged! It was a tough field of competitors and our best result was in engineering where we placed 9th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well done to the following students:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maisie Hollings<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Alyssa Widjay<\/li>\n<li>Nysa Hedge<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phoebe Hadisurja<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ava Tanudji<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grace Chow<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caitlin Earls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ava Mansory<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Maths Olympiad<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Year 7 and 8 talented mathematicians are currently involved in the Maths Olympiad. They recently sat the third paper for the year, with one more to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maths Olympiad Senior Division is a prestigious inter-school problem-solving competition designed for high-achieving students in Years 7 and 8 that challenges students to develop creative mathematical reasoning rather than just routine class work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whilst there are prizes on offer by the organisers, I am also awarding prizes to our top performers after each paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paper 1 winners: Chloe Hopkins, Leah Rhim, Maisie Hollings, Anita Abdollahi,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paper 2 winners: Summer Kim, Chloe Kannan, Caitlin Earls<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paper 3 winners: Chloe Kanaan, Maisie Hollings, Nysa Hedge,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hope all students are enjoying their learning and are striving for excellence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15934 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-640x480.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-320x240.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-145x109.jpeg 145w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-290x218.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/07\/IMG_4167-2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"highlight\" style=\"text-align: left\"><i style=\"font-size: 1.4rem\"><em>Ms Rachael Colreavy, Inclusive Learning (Gifted and Talented) Coordinator<\/em><\/i><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p class=\"row enewsletter-text-block\" style=\"text-align: left\" data-block-enewsletter=\"text\">This article on College life meets The Archbishop&#8217;s Charter for Catholic Schools &#8211; Charter #1, #2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s happening in Gifted and Talented? Da Vinci Decathlon Yr 8 students represented MSCW at the da Vinci Decathlon last term. The da Vinci Decathlon is an academic competition designed to challenge and stimulate the minds of school students. Students compete in teams of eight across 10 disciplines: engineering, mathematics, code breaking, art and poetry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-15933","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_category-around-the-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/15933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=15933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}