From the Senior School
Year 11 University Immersion Day – 31 March
This year the Senior School, in conjunction with the Futures Team, has organised a University Immersion Day for Year 11 students. This will be held on Friday 31 March.
The aim of the day is to provide an experience of university life, which includes travelling independently to and from the venue, attending workshops and lectures and experiencing daily campus life. A range of universities have offered to host Pymble students and have prepared a variety of workshops across their academic disciplines. Each university has nominated the number of places available, so students will need to submit their preferences which will be allocated on a first-in basis. Please note, the main objective is to experience university life, so students can think beyond particular courses or institutions they may be interested in. More information is available on the Parent Portal.
Excursion to the National Gallery of Victoria
Last Wednesday a group of Year 11 and 12 Textiles students had the amazing opportunity to go on a two-day trip to Melbourne to see both the Alexander McQueen exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and visit the Brunswick campus of RMIT.
We were accompanied by Dr Hadwen and Ms Rockwell, along with our Textiles teachers Ms Hansby, Ms Schumann and Ms Nelson who all played a large part in allowing us to experience this unique trip. The Alexander McQueen exhibition was very inspiring as it was full of so many unique, innovative designs from across his portfolio, with many of the collections providing inspiration for our HSC major projects. My personal favourite collections were the Angels and Demons Autumn-Winter 2010–11 and The Dance of the Twisted Bull Spring-Summer 2002.
The visit to RMIT was very exciting as we got to have a tour through all the departments of their Brunswick campus including the sewing rooms, the yarn making department, the large-scale screen printing tables and the leather-work workshop. The tour leader along with some ex-Pymble students also answered our questions about the different courses and possible pathways and opportunities available at RMIT. Overall, the trip was such a special, rare experience that I’m so glad we got the chance to go on before we graduate, and I’m so grateful to everyone who made it happen.
Written by Madeleine (Year 12)
Year 11 Earth and Environmental Science Excursion
On Friday 10 March Year 11 Earth and Environmental Science students headed to the Central Coast suburbs of Terrigal and Wamberal to carry out mandatory fieldwork. Students were able to go to the headlands at Terrigal to put into practice the skills they had learned in class to identify rocks, fossils and other geological structures. They then went to several sites within the catchment area around Wamberal Lagoon to test soil and water in an effort to measure factors that are affected by human impacts within the area.
Key events for the term
22 March – 29 March – Year 11 Assessment Week
31 March – Year 12 Mind Body Spirit Day
31 March – Year 11 Immersion Day
3 April – Careers Expo
5 April – From the Curriculum Office: Pupil free day for Year 11 and 12 while Learning Discussions are taking place for Year 7, 8 and 10. Year 12 teachers will be setting work if they have a Year 12 class on that day. This will be an asynchronous lesson that the students should complete on Wednesday or at some stage during the break.
Nikki Wyse
Head of Senior School