Seven Year 11 and 12 students made the arduous and early journey on Saturday 24 March, down to the Tweed Civic Centre to go undercover and to take on new personas for the day. That whole day, we were no longer lowly Senior School students... we were the incredibly revered and feared delegates of France and Germany in a Model United Nations debate!
In January, Ms Andrea Lewis (Festival Director for the Celebration of Literature) approached the Somerset Shed Mentors and asked them if they were up for the challenge to build a “Street Library”? You may ask, “What is a Street Library”?
On Friday 23 March, four students travelled to Brisbane accompanied by Ms Hyman to attend a STEM Leadership Conference. Jacinta Mai, Desmond Chuah, Piper Nairn and Stephan Tkatchenko, were fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to represent the school and collaborate with other Griffith University Stem Ambassadors at this annual event.
On Monday 12 March, Somerset College welcomed a group of 20 students and two teachers from our German partner school, Comenius Gymnasium, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The German students were hosted by our wonderful Somerset families for their two-week stay on the Gold Coast.
As in our previous years at the College, the first term of 2018 saw the entire campus quickly brought to life by the controlled chaos of early morning training sessions, countless rehearsals in the Performing Arts Theatre, as well as the great diversity of committees which captivated keen Mathematicians and Wordsmiths alike.
March 19 5.30am began with what looked like a major military exercise – 128 eager Year Eight students, four 4WD buses, and 10 courageous Somerset teachers. This departure for the Micat ferry and onto Moreton Island for Year 8 camp was quickly followed by the Year 9 camp departure – an even more daunting prospect.
The Year 12 cohort has been fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to meet with a group of residents from Ozcare once a fortnight for lunches in the Senior Learning Centre. Over these fascinating and insightful meetings with the individuals who come to visit Somerset, students have learnt many interesting things including; life advice, stories of the residents’ experiences and of course, a new word from Jill every time she visits.
Congratulations to Rylee Burns for her recent selection in the Queensland U17 Netball Team. Trials began in September 2017, with over 130 players hoping to progress through the vigorous selection process, which involved a number of trials and camps before the final team was announced this month.
My name is Alex Grgic and for my Personal Project I decided to decorate cookies acquiring differing themes. I have a strong passion for baking and wanted to include this into my nine-month Project.
International Women’s Day, celebrated 8 March each year, is a day to acknowledge the great achievements of women, to challenge stereotypes and bias, forge positive visibility of women, and to accept, understand and influence less progressive beliefs and ideas. From the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap report, findings suggest that closing ‘the gap’ is over 200 years away – this is such an important time to keep motivated and strive together for gender equality.
My name is Luke Jackson and for my Personal Project I have shaped and built my own personal surfboard. I wanted to extend my knowledge of surfing and experience the challenges of building a surfboard.
My name is Dom, my Personal Project idea grew from when I was young and began playing Basketball. I decided to harness my skills and knowledge of the sport and use them to help those younger than me.