Somerset rowers have won the Andrew Butler Trophy for the Girls Overall Points score. The team of rowers competed in the final regatta of the local Gold Coast schools rowing season at Wyaralong Dam recently.
Somerset's Netball Academy team and Open 1st team competed in the regional rounds of the Vicki Wilson Netball Tournament with 40 other schools throughout the Region recently. The competition was held at our local Hinterland District Association, at Firth Park.
And that’s a wrap; the curtain has closed on the 2021 Gold Coast Secondary School Drama Festival. It was wonderful to welcome audiences back to the GCSSDF in 2021.
The Somerset 1st XV 2021 season was the best Rugby season I have ever experienced at the College. The season was filled with hard work, laughs and comradery.
The Open A Netball team went through the APS rounds undefeated as they headed into the Grand Final against Coomera on Friday. The team was happy to be playing at home but were not taking anything for granted, expecting a hard fought battle against the determined CAC team.
My name is Mao Oishi, and I am a Year 10 Somerset student currently undertaking the Personal Project as part of the Middle Years Programme. My aim of this project is to inspire and encourage people to recycle by contributing to recycling.
At Somerset, we believe in the development of a caring College community and a strong network of support for our students. This year, Year 12 students offered their lunchtime to the Senior School student body, extending their friendship and leadership in their own unique endeavour they named, ’12 Time’.
My name is Oliver Yang and I am a Year 10 Somerset student undertaking and completing the Personal Project amongst the rest of my cohort. My Project is the construction and development of an Automated Mechanical Robotic Chess AI (Artifical Intelligence) named M.Tal (Chess Grandmaster).
My name is Benjamin Major, and I am a Year 10 student currently immersed in a Personal Project as part of my final year in the Middle Years Programme. My Project promotes reusing and repurposing by utilising electronic wastes (e-waste) such as computer motherboards, graphics cards, CPUs, hard drives, memory cards and batteries to produce a mathematically scaled, three-dimensional model of mid-town Manhattan, New York City (NYC).
I am Rishi Veeramachaneni, a Year 10 student and I am in the process of creating a culturally oriented artwork for my Personal Project. Over the course of the Personal Project journey, I aim to learn the skills required to create a Kerala Mural Painting (a traditional Indian art form) of the Hindu deity, Krishna.
In the last two weeks of school year for 2020, the Year 7 cohort came together in small groups to plan, design, construct then race Billy Carts. This was to connect with our Sciences unit based on physics and forces.
“Do you have all the answers?” “No, but we’re only five.” The performance of the Hurting Game by Brainstorm Productions for our Year 7s at the end of Term One, started by taking the actors back from Year 11 to Prep and then a journey back through the years, with a reflection of the different challenges they had faced in Year 7 and beyond.