Inspire - Issue 04 2022

Welcome to the Term 4 issue of Inspire. This publication is the expression of student voice at The Lakes and showcases the amazing learning that happens everyday on both campuses. Cover Art by Anita D

2022 Issue 04

Acknowledgement of Country

In the spirit of reconciliation, we at The Lakes South Morang College would like to say thank you to the traditional custodians throughout Victoria where we have continued to explore and engage in our learning this term. We pay respects to the Wurundjeri - Willam people of the Kulin Nation who have cared for the grasslands, the waterways, the animals, and sky where our Primary and Secondary campuses are placed. Through our ongoing learning and connection to land, stories, and cultures we share our journey this term through Inspire .

Contents

01 Principal ’ s Message 03 Staying Alive Prep 04 Community Connections 05 Narratives Year One

25 Student Leader Reflections Primary School Captains 26 Student Leader Reflections Secondary Peer Mediator 27 Visual Arts Year Seven 29 English Year Seven 31 Math Year Eight 32 Hands - on - Learning! Year Eight

07 Information Reports Year Two 09 Camp Reflection Year Three 11 School Pride Year Four 13 STEM Project Year Five 15 Influential Australians Year Six 17 Hands on Math Primary Math 19 Netball & Volleyball Primary Sport 21 Art Show Creations Primary Art 23 Night Under the Stars Primary Performance Arts

33 Humanities Year Eight 34 Legal Studies Year Nine 35 Performing Arts Year Nine 37 Food Studies Year Ten

39 VCAL Class of 2022 Year Twelve 40 Student Perspective Year Twelve

Farewell, Au revoir, See you later and Cheers These students reflect all students at The Lakes. Their inspirational achievements as a collective of dynamic, inclusive, aspiring, grateful and wonderful people have prepared them to be capable of effectively influencing in our world.

After 40 plus years in education, the last 16 at The Lakes, I am proud to say the journey has been unforgettable. In 2006 the excitement of my appointment saw “ the sod turned ” in a paddock filled with enormous gums and an estate still under construction. My office was the boot of my car and many roads were unmade and dead ends. Today we have two campuses, amazing buildings, a committed community, inspiring staff, and, aspiring students. We are one. The roads are sealed and we have access to public transport. All signs of the magnificent progress.

We have students at all year levels who are fine role models and mentors for their peers. Our seniors have followed their unique pathway - VCAL, VET or VCE, or moved to apprenticeships and employment. Research tells us life will hold a range of changes but with confidence, collaboration, communication and compassion they will succeed in their journey. Our primary students have also lead their peers as buddies, captains, peer supporters and mentored and modelled great choices. May you continue to dream, and, work to live your dream - not chase it. I thank you all for allowing me to share your journey; it is an absolute privilege and I urge you to dream big, remembering you will always be a member of The Lakes family. Please remember to keep us in the loop. To the staff I have worked with in the time: you are amazing. Relationship focussed, all about team while striving to continually build integrity and capacity for students and themselves. I am honoured to have served you.

I would like to thank The Lakes community for trusting me to lead this dynamic learning space.

This year we have witnessed a dream. Our inaugural Year 12 graduation Class of 2022 should stand tall; they have completed a significant chapter of their life journey. I remember 4 years ago the last announcement of the Andrew ’ s government before entering caretaker mode was that The Lakes South Morang P - 9 School would become a P - 12 College. The community of 3752 would finally have an entitlement and access to the full compliment of state education. This is now enacted and for the first time we witnessed young people who started as Prep complete 13 years of learning. Bravo!

To Chris B, Warren T, Bill P, Karen B, Marcus AH Bonnie and Vera it has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and for The Lakes community as the Principal team. I will treasure my time at The Lakes forever and move to retirement knowing the strength of each and every member will ensure there is a promising and exciting journey ahead.

Thanks, au revoir, cheers, see you later, farewell!

Kerrie XX

Staying Alive in Prep The Preps this term have been focusing on the Inquiry topic of Staying Alive. Over the term we have been learning about how all animals, including humans, use their sensory organs to gather information about their environment. Humans use their senses to gather information - not only critical for our immediate safety, but also for planning to meet our basic needs for things such as food, water and shelter. Through different science experiments, the students have been investigating their own senses in various ways, learning how our senses keep us safe.

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The Preps have collated a short video to showcase their learnings over the term.

Community Connections

The excitement is growing this term as our amazing kinder friends get ready for school! We hosted our friends and colleagues from Little Learners Early Education. Our current Preps were able to step up in to the big buddy role when the 4 year old kinder group visited us for a school experience. We read a story together and talked about and drew our favourite memory from the year. The Kinder kids showed fantastic independence. They are well and truly ready for school. We have also welcomed our new 2023 Preps into their new spaces. They have entered with humongous smiles and open hearts and minds. It ’ s hard to tell if the kids or the teachers are more excited about the adventures we will have together. We have already started learning about our school values and how to show these at school so we are all safe and happy. We have learnt about being kind and polite to others and made our first collaborative artwork! Our 2023 Preps were also shown around our school and got to have a play on the playground! 2023 is going to be full of wonderful adventures and growth!

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Year One Narratives This term in Year One, we have been learning about narratives. We read many different narratives and explored all their text features. We then followed the stages of the Writing Process to write our own narratives.

Prewriting Stage

Brainstorm: First, we brainstormed ideas for a main character. We had to think about what our character looks like, sounds like and how they act and feel. Model: We created a puppet of our character using a popsicle stick and craft materials. The Year 1’ s made all sorts of characters. We made superheroes, aliens, princesses, different animals and robots. Organise: We used a Story Map graphic organiser to organise our ideas. We wrote down and drew our setting and characters. We also outlined the beginning, middle and end of our stories.

Drafting Stage We turned our ideas into sentences and wrote our stories in our writing books. We used our puppets and Story Maps to help us remember the plot. Revise and Edit Stage We read through our stories to make sure they sound and look right. Our teachers helped us correct the spelling and punctuation mistakes. Rewrite and Publish Stage We wrote out a good copy of our stories on dotted thirds paper and illustrated them. We then used Book Creator on our iPads to publish a digital copy of our stories. Some of us then also turned our narratives into a book.

Year Two Information Reports

This term the students have focused on creating information reports. The students were able to choose any animal that they would like to learn about and select how they wanted to present the information. Some chose the Book Creator app, voice note/speech, hand written books as well as posters. Students had to ensure that when they completed their work they must include the different features of an information report. After they finished the Year 2’ s invited the Preps to share their writing piece. It was fantastic to see students choose and take ownership of their learning.

My most interesting fact – “ The first pair of worker ants are called nanitics ” Ryan L

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My most interesting fact - “ A turtle can live up to 200 years ” Macie

My most interesting fact – “ There are 23 different species of Vulture ” Joseph

My most interesting fact – “ Gorillas rarely eat small animals ” Raastin

My most interesting fact – “ Rabbits can almost see all the way around their body ” Siena

My most interesting fact – “ Kittens are born with closed eyes ” Aubrey

Year Three Camp Reflections On Monday, we had our 3/4 camp. We had mountain boarding, archery, rock climbing and much more.

Day 2 ~ It was Jonah ’ s birthday and in the hall we all sang him happy birthday and he got a chocolate cake and everyone in his cabin got a piece. I also did rock climbing which was one of my favourites. I didn ’ t get to the top, but I was still very proud of myself. It was fun, and I can ’ t wait to go next year. Steven N After the bus trip the 3/4‘ s went to the hall to eat and rest. After we had some rest, we got to meet horses then we got to go to our cabins, they were very nice.

We got to know our groups and then my group went to the animal nursery and there were chickens, cows, goats, and small horses. Soon, we got to go to our cabins, and we had a night walk. Day 2 ~ we got to have some yummy breakfast, we could have cornflakes, rice puffs, Weetbix, and toast. After breakfast we had a giant swing for our second activity, then we had mountainboarding, but the weather was so cold and wet. A replacement was the games room. A little bit after we went to do archery and I hit a bullseye! After archery we had camp scramble, some questions were

hard, and some were not. We had some lunch, we had chicken wraps and for dinner we had burgers, which were so good. After dinner, we had a campfire and we got to roast marshmallows. I just ate them. Day 3 ~ we woke up and got everything packed and we did our final two activities which was initiatives and rock climbing. I did not do it because it was wet and slippery. Later we went back to school and camp was over. Levi

Marcus and Leah went of the giant swing. I was not in that group, but the other kids told me, and I saw a video of them. We also did a campfire and we got marshmallows and put it on a stick and roasted it and it tasted very good. I also made new friends with the year 4’ s, like Selena, Alex, Tristan, and John. I also really liked the food it was delicious, we had spaghetti Bolognese which I didn ’ t really like, but I still ate a bit.

Year Four School Pride

Recycling

Flash Trash

This year we have been recycling our soft plastics in the classroom. We learnt that if your plastic is easy to scrunch then we can recycle it. We have been taking the wrappers over to Coles and recycling them at the RedCycle drop off point. They have been turning all of our wrappers into things like playgrounds, roads and bench seating. We recycle all of our paper and bottles each fortnight too. We are trying to make our school a better place and our world a better place by reducing landfill. Daniel and Lucas

In the past, some people would throw their rubbish on the ground. Now we put the music on at the end of recess and lunchtime and pick up rubbish. This is flash trash time! I think we have decreased the amount of rubbish by 90%. All the kids must be proud of what they have done to make the yard cleaner. People who put effort into cleaning the yard are rewarded with dojo points. This has become our routine for recess and lunchtime. Great job to everyone involved. Shruthi

Gardening & School Pride Club

We planted lots of different vegetables in our garden such as herbs, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, spring onion & beetroot. We have been tidying up outside to make sure our grounds are looking beautiful. We have enjoyed using the rakes, brooms and gardening tools to help make our school look terrific and tidy. We would like to thank Marcus and Michelle B for helping us to achieve this. Maddie

Uniform and being proud of each other

We show school pride by wearing our school uniform. We like our uniform because they are nice colours and it makes us feel like a community and a team. We are proud of our students and our teachers and we respect everyone at our school. We celebrate everyone's achievements small and big. From encouraging our mates and giving them a high five through to dojo points and achievement awards. Anitej

Year Five STEM Project

At the start of Term 4, we got the chance to do a STEM program with our student teacher Anne. We learned about Urban farming, Aquaponics and much more. I was in a group with my friends, Selina and Ryan. Overall, I found the project really interesting, and it was fun to use different programs to create something that would help the fish survive in their tank. We made a robot arm to clean out all the fish waste from the pumps. Tijana During our STEM program, we got to explore micro:bit which is a coding app. micro:bit helps you code things like robots, lights and machines. This helped us complete our projects. My group designed a light sensor, to provide automatic lighting for the fish and plants. We were able to do all the coding for the sensor using micro:bit. Ethan

In Term 4 we did this project called STEM, where we were able to explore things like robotics and other cool stuff. During the project I used the app micro:bit. It is a programming app. I really liked that. In the end we made this cardboard presentation we presented it and it was really fun. Millie

I had so much fun using Tinkercad and micro:bit during our STEM project. My favourite part was creating the 3D objects. My team designed a robot arm to grab all the rubbish from the ocean and puts it in a dispenser. This is helpful because it makes it easier for the aquaponics system to run automatically. I also had a lot of fun working with new people in Year 5. Selina

I really enjoyed the STEM project because it gave me a chance to try coding. I also enjoyed it because it lets us do the process of engineering. It was also good because we did it in groups and it gave me a chance to be in a group with different classmates. It gave me a chance to work on my presenting. Ashwin

My team designed these window wipers that wipes the algae off the fish tank. This works with a filter that sucks up all the algae and keeps the tank clean. Jahmin

Year Six Influential Australians This terms inquiry was all about the quality ’ s of an influential Australian. Earlier on in the term our cohort went to the MCG sport museum, and explored influential Australians with a career in sports. We started to learn about Fred Hollows and who he is, a few weeks later we got to chose an influential Australian to go on a five dollar bank note. We had to present to our class and say why we think our influential Australian should go on a bank note. We had to explain how they inspire us and why we picked this influential Australian. Adriana & Cianan

Note Design by Adriana

When the Year 6’ s went on an excursion to the MCG we first walked on the ground. When we were on the ground it felt super fresh since people are also working on it making sure it ’ s top class for the professionals to play on. When on the ground we got to sit on the players seats where they sit in games. We also went to the coaches box which was up high but that was only the start of it. After that we went to the tallest seats in the stadium and viewed the whole stadium, the person giving us the tour also told us about one chair in the stadium that was a different colour to the others. When we went back inside I saw the longest long jump record in person it was amazing how far a person could jump. Then we went to learn about the aboriginal cricket team and it was very interesting to see the history of the MCG and the indigenous people playing cricket so long ago. We also saw a hologram of Shane Warne one of the greatest cricket ballers ever then after all that we met and Olympic diving champion, Jenny Donnet. Ajak & Ryder

Hands on Maths Students across the school have been using hands on Maths activities to support their learning in Maths this semester. Students have been exploring the numbers before and after a given number using number lines, dice and 120 charts. They have been plotting fractions on a number line and representing fractions during a weekly Maths Masterclass. Students have been using their creativity to explore symmetry and some have been introduced to coding programs such as Scratch.

Students Thoughts:

I enjoy our Maths class because it ’ s fun. Maths is my favourite subject. Rocco I like how we challenge ourselves. Cooper I like Maths because I learn new things. Krishnika I Like Maths. Learning about 2D shapes was my favourite. Ray It ’ s fun and I love to learn about money. Rylee Maths is my favourite subject. Shane

I am getting really, really smart. I love Mathematics. Edward I get excited every week that I get to do the math class. It ’ s fun and I learn new things. Eleftheria I enjoyed Coding and the challenges. Kiara I like working with in a group with my peers and Problem Solving. Selina

Primary Netball & Volleyball

Term 4 saw our students compete in both netball (our much awaited postponed district final) and volleyball. Our netballers played against Marymede where they defeated them 26 - 8, winning the flag for our Bridge Inn South district. The girls have put in a lot of hard work and training behind the scenes and have developed into some very sharp netballers! Our volleyballers held their own as well, we entered 4 teams, an A and B for both boys and girls. Our A girls came runners up and our B boys won their competition. Bringing home flags for our school! GREAT JOB EVERYONE!

Art Show Creations on Primary

This term we have been enjoying making our artworks and feel proud and happy about what we have made. Our teacher inspires us to do our best and gives us more than 100%. Our artworks are created by thinking about how we are expressing our feelings and what we feel. Our artwork in the art show will be based on what we have learnt about this year. The theme is “ What do artists do? ” We have learnt artists do lots of things like paint, draw, create, sew, sculpt and construct. We have also learnt that art can be anything. We have been writing our artist statements and learning about art galleries and how the artists have expressed their feelings and display their artworks to show more meaning. We hope our Lakes Art show will be successful and people will come and look at the awesome artworks of our artists. Grace and Asha

We went around our school to see how students are feeling about our upcoming Art Show and what they have learnt this term in art. This is what they had to say:

I am excited to show my artwork. I have been learning how to weave. Elijah

I ’ m very excited about how my family are coming and I am very happy. I have been learning how to mix colours and add more colours. Bea

I am nervous and excited. I have been learning how to use different textas. Audrey

I am feeling excited to see other people ’ s artworks. I have been learning different techniques. Kris

I am happy because I want to see the different artworks. I have been learning about different types of colours. Hiya

I think it will be cool and fun. I have learnt about knitting. Alex M

Primary Performing Arts

Night Under The Stars Preparation:

This term the Primary Campus have been preparing for our end of year concert. Students are doing singing and dancing. I can ’ t wait to hear about the animal song the Preps have been practicing. The year 6’ s have been learning our dance which is an African dance to the song called Safari. We have been practicing African percussion instruments to go with the song. Each year level is presenting an item based on the book Imagine by Alison Lester. We are using song and dance to represent the images on a page. Mia MK

Term 4 has been amazing so far. There are many highlights to look back on. The 2023 Preps have been having their orientation day every Tuesday. We are super excited for the new Preps to join The Lakes and add to our wonderful school community. The Year 3 and 4 students attended the Ace Hi camp. They had an amazing time and participated in heaps of fun activities. The weather was a bit chilly but everyone still had a great time. Thanks to all of the staff who went with the students on the camp, everyone appreciates your amazing efforts. The Art Show and ‘ Night Under the Stars ’ are coming up. We are all excited to see all your art work and performances. Claire and Duong have been working so hard for this night so make sure you work with them during classes and do our personal best. The Year 6’ s are starting to get excited for their graduation, they have been putting in a lot of time to practice for the big night. Our SWPBS focus for this term has been Leadership. It has been great to see our older students supporting our younger students in class and out in the yard. Students have been acting as great role models for each other displaying all of our values. Zooper Dooper Fridays have been a hit and has been a great fund raiser for a worthy cause. As School Captains we have enjoyed building our confidence when speaking at assembly and when talking to year level cohorts. We have enjoyed working with our kinder visitors and welcoming families to our 2023 Prep Orientation mornings. It ’ s been good to learn about managing our time with our learning and school captain responsibilities. We look forward to helping the school select our 2023 student leadership group. We would like to wish all of our school community an enjoyable end to the term and a happy and safe holiday break. Xavier K, Prarthana, Tania J and Harshu

Student Leader Reflections

At the beginning of the year, several of my peers and I were given the opportunity to be peer support leaders. It gave us the chance to be role models to our peers and have an impact on our school community. We have attended student leadership meetings and contributed to things such as out of uniform days and the physical appearance of our school. Not only this, but we also had the opportunity to contribute to our schools ongoing improvement strategy. This included interviewing students, compiling a presentation and then presenting it at a staff meeting which was very rewarding not only for the school but also for the improvement of our public speaking skills. We have also been invited to be involved in the Year 7 orientation day later in the year and that is something that I am looking forward to. Charlotte A

Year Seven Visual Art

What a fun semester it has been in the Art room with the year 7’ s! Students have been exploring a range of materials and techniques, and have produced some stunning work. They used paper collage for a Japanese Notan design, applied colour theory and acrylic techniques to create a tree painting, as well as construction and problem - solving skills to build a 3D Cubist face with cardboard! In between their major projects, students had fun making Halloween decorations. Despite being relocated out of the Art studio (due to exams), students have adapted to limited space and resources and continued working on their projects. So many budding artists – watch this space!

I love that I can express myself and use my mind in ways I never have, we are all encouraged to be ourselves in Art. Shannon always introduces us to new things like Notan designs. I have learnt how to use different shapes to create faces and objects, it is called cubism, I have also learnt the colour wheel and analogous and harmonious colours and it has been very fun learning all these things. Samantha L

In my opinion painting and drawing is very relaxing to relieve some stress. I have enjoyed doing our tree paintings because it is very calming to see all the colours separated into their own sections. Maddison G

I have learnt many different aspects of Art like Cubism and Notan designs. I also learnt how to make colours and how to blend the colours. I have enjoyed creating the Cubist face because I ’ ve never seen Art that looks like that and I thought it was very unique. Also, it was very fun cutting out the Cubist face using a stanley knife and gluing the face together. Jacob A I have enjoyed so many things in Art, especially the cubist face we are doing this term with cardboard and oil pastels. I have learnt a lot of important Art facts and how to use the tools such as a particular knife to cut the cardboard and how to create a Notan design. Carmel S I enjoyed doing the tree and the Cubist face, because the Cubist face allowed me to express my true imagination. I have improved at drawing and how to use a Stanley knife. I learnt that you don ’ t need to be good at drawing to express your imagination. I learnt how to blend oil pastels to create nice shadows. Leon N

Year Seven English Before there were stars by Declan

It was a dark, gloomy, misty winter ’ s night. The only noise was the long, dead grass waving in the cold wind like a drowning man saying goodbye before his last breath, that and the screams of the innocent humans being slaughtered in the distance. He staggered through the deep, muddy fields, trying to avoid the bodies of those who had been killed in the battle that had been raging. As he was walking back to his small town, all he could hear was the screams of the innocent. All he could think about was not getting captured and getting killed by his evil, vicious enemies while trying to escape from that frightful, horrendous place. Boom! A terrible noise struck him down and he fell to the ground suddenly: a searing pain shot through his body and his arms and legs went numb as if he had ingested some kind of drug. His head slammed against the wet, sloppy earth, drowning in a deep puddle. He fell unconscious. The next time he woke up he was in a bed with a healer standing over him. His vision was blurry adjusting to the light. It took him a while to realize what was going on and where he was. The healer told him the most devastating news. His leg had been badly shattered in some kind of explosion. Weeks passed by sitting alone in his uncomfortable, flea

infected hospital bed with no one around to keep him company. All he could do was pray for the war to end so everything could go back to normal and he could live the rest of his life in peace. Weeks passed by. The makeshift hospital had been abandoned in case the enemy attacked again and he had been left alone to fend for himself, since he was too sick to be moved. He was recovering slowly from his devastating injury. Then one overcast, sombre night, it all went silent. It had seemed like every living person in the world had magically disappeared. It was as quiet as an abandoned house that was infested with ghosts, the only noise that could be heard was the rain spattering over the fetid corpses on the battle field. He was confused, he tried to get up once, but he couldn ’ t move. He tried again, but nothing happened. Then a miracle; he rose to his feet. He couldn ’ t believe what was happening. He tried walking. He could do it! He got the courage to go outside. As he poked his head around the corner, he had instant flashbacks from when he was fighting in the horrendous conflict. He almost passed out, but luckily, he caught himself and then started hobbling again. He staggered around everywhere looking for anyone that had survived, but he didn ’ t find anyone. He was all alone to fend for himself in the deathly quiet, harsh world.

More weeks passed by and he was still searching for any sign of human life, but nothing could be found. He fell into the darkest time he had ever lived, always wondering how he could go on, but he knew that he had to and maybe one day everyone would come back. The town that had once been the loudest, most enjoyable place to be had turned into a dark, gloomy ghost town. As the days kept passing by, the smell in the town became more rank. He couldn ’ t stand it anymore. If he had lived there any longer, he would have passed out. He had to do something. He was searching for answers trying to find where the smell was coming from. He limped to the other side of town as fast as he could, the closer he got, the stronger the putrid odour became. He had found the answer. It was all the corpses that had been lying around on the ground for all that time rotting by the day. The smell was horrendous, he couldn ’ t bear to stay there anymore and if he did, he would have fainted. He staggered away from the field trying to figure out ways to get rid of the stink. Then the deafening reality came to him. The next day he went out to the field prepared with a mask and a shovel. He took one look at the field and thought to himself ‘ this is going to take forever. ’ He started slowly picking at each body and one by one burying them. By the end of the day, he had buried over 20 bodies in the wet, tacky earth.

It started getting dark outside so he had decided to go home and get to sleep early so he could get a head start on the work the next day. As he lay in bed, he noticed that it was brighter than usual outside. He looked out of his hut to see what was going on and bright yellow dots appeared in the sky. He was in disbelief; he didn ’ t know what they were. Slowly, one by one, more of the bright coloured dots appeared in the sky like jewels: diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and pearls. He was amazed. He slowly adjusted to the light overnight. In the morning when he had woken up, they had all disappeared. He was confused but still got back to work the next day. After a long day of burying the innocents, he finally finished the gruesome work. He decided to sit outside for a bit before he went to bed and once again, he saw the bright lights appear from out of the inky sky, but this time there were many more. They seemed to twinkle and wink at him, watching over him like the beautiful eyes of the beloved people he had laid to rest. Somehow, these strange, new, twinkling lights brought him comfort he had not known for so long.

Year Eight Math This term the VIA class was learning about rates and ratios our teacher wanted to make it fun for all students to learn ratios so she included food in it. We used smarties to find the ratio of the different colours and convert it to fractions and percentages. We used Shapes to share it among friends and find the ratio and we used cordial too find proportion of cordial to water in litres and solved problems based on this.

And lastly our teacher baked us a chocolate calculator cake to help us find how much ingredients we need, per serve, and cost per serve. We had a booklet that stepped us through the process of planning our own party using the skills and concepts learnt prior to be able to manage a budget to celebrate an event of our choice. Natanya R

Year Eight Hands-on-Learning! Hands on Learning has run a number of projects and activities this semester. One of the fantastic opportunities the Hands - on - Learning group had was to create a lemonade stand for the Prep class on the Primary Campus.

'The hands - on learning program was really good for me because it made me like going to school. ' Lincoln

The Prep students were so excited to meet the students from Secondary who are part of our Hands - on - Learning Program. They came down to the Primary campus to meet our Preps and discuss some things they could possibly make using wood, we decided on a stand. Over the past couple of weeks, the Prep students were kept up to date on the progress of the stand, which will be used during our Investigation sessions. On the 6/10/22 the Secondary students presented their fabulous wood work to the Prep students, who were so excited to see to final product. We love to work collaboratively with the Secondary Campus and explore all the different things they do in Secondary School at The Lakes College. The Hands - on - Learning program also made tool boxes, a bench seat and designed a garden during the semester!

'The hands - on program was really fun. We got to learn how to use new tools and new ways to work. Next time I would love to do some metal work.' Mason

Year Eight Humanities In Year 8 Humanities, the students are learning about citizenship and diversity. Currently in 8B Humanities, students have designed and are creating 3D models, physical or digital, of a specific feature of a city to be accessible for those with impairments and disabilities. For example, a park with playground equipment accessible for someone with physical disabilities or a train station designed to more accessible for those with sensory needs or visual and hearing impairments.

Year Nine Legal Studies

In Year 9, students have been defining terms associated with Law and finding real cases in the news to demonstrate an understanding of these terms. They have made a digital portfolio of relevant terms and real cases.

Year Nine Performing Arts BRING IT ON The Musical

After three years, The Lakes Performing Arts students are finally returning to the stage with their performance of Bring It On! For the past term, the cast and those involved in the production have been rehearsing every Wednesday to ensure that this is our most successful production yet. We are excited to announce that we have the largest cast The Lakes has seen, with a record number of people who auditioned. Everyone is excited to finally be back on stage, with the

production taking place on August the 1 st and 2 nd 2023. More information will be available next year. Jorja, Jesse and Alannah

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Year Ten Food Studies

This semester in Food Studies we have learnt a lot getting ready for Units 1 and 2. We have worked through the digestive system, understanding cooking processes, functional properties of food, food preservation and nutritional knowledge. Our assessments were to create a meal for an aircraft where we had to design a filling meal that would be appropriate for a long duration flight. We also had the opportunity to design a food that would be suitable for a meal box kit. We had a design task where we designed artwork for focaccias. We made these and they turned out great! Overall, it was a great semester and are looking forward to continuing learning next year!

Year Twelve VCAL Class of 2022

This years Year 12 VCAL class have continued to set the bar high in terms of their commitment to their studies in the second half of the year. It has been a steep learning curve for everyone as they completed numerous learning outcomes across all the areas of Literacy, Numeracy, Work Related Skills and Personal Development. In their final Learning Outcome for Literacy students prepared a 10 minute presentation reflecting on their learning journey to date. They discussed their favourite memories from Primary and Secondary School, shared funny stories from their early childhood, identified and discussed the influence of role models, wrote thank you letters to influential teachers who have contributed to their journeys and shared their 5 year plans for the future. Their openness and willingness to share their thoughts was received by the audience with many smiles, laughs and at times tears (mainly from Renee!). We wish our graduating class all the best for their future journeys. It has been an honour and joy to share this part of their lives and we wave goodbye with absolute certainty that they will move on and achieve the goals they have set themselves.

Renee Short VCAL Coordinator 2022

Year Twelve Student Perspective

We could finally let out a sigh of relief as we heard “ pens down ” at the end of each exam, feeling that little bit lighter. While it may sound like a frightening experience to begin with, we all got the hang of it by the end. On our final exam, it was a bittersweet feeling hearing that phrase as we could finally relax. But it also meant our high school experience was ending. As soon as we left the exam room we all quickly debriefed on the experience, talking about how we think we went and what questions and parts we found difficult or surprising. In spite of how we end up doing, my peers and I are proud of our efforts and would like to thank all the staff who ensured the exam period ran smoothly for us. Now, we anxiously wait for our results which come out on Monday 12 December 2022. To future students sitting these exams, I promise they are not as scary as they seem. All you can ask of yourself during the exam period is to give it your absolute best and to stay positive. Give yourself a pep talk in the mirror beforehand. Trust me, it helps

As the inaugural VCE cohort of The Lakes, we were lucky enough to make history sitting the first ever Year 12 exams at The Lakes. Just like the teachers and the principal team, we were all a little nervous about how it would all play out as exams approached. We studied hard, going through countless past exam papers, searching for last minute tips and asking our teachers for help on things we were still unsure about. Often, exam time is a stressful period for us students. We wanted to do as well as we could but sometimes found the pressure of the whole experience daunting. Luckily, we have some amazing teachers and staff in our corner who supported us throughout this stressful period, reassuring us of our knowledge and giving us an extra little boost with a “ good luck ” before we walked into the exam room. This is where it finally felt real – when we took our seats for each exam and gave ourselves a last little pep talk in our heads before the clock started ticking. We battled with the clock and a sore hand from writing so much so fast, and at times we had to bring ourselves back from panic in the middle of an exam. On some occasions, a lot of us had two exams scheduled for the same day and that made us even more nervous. But with some careful time management skills and a few deep breaths, it was nothing we couldn ’ t handle.

Angela

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Inspire is published each term by The Lakes South Morang College. It is a collective effort by staff and students to celebrate and share the learning that has taken place.

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Kitty Wilson

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Anita D (Year 7)

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