We would like to thank all of the families who have very kindly donated such beautiful books for this cause.
Students from the Junior School were very excited to bring in their books that they no longer read to give them to other students. Many bright faces showed up and swapped a book for a new book to read and love. It is clear that our students love reading and books as much as we do in the KIP.
The aim of the Bond Demo Day is to foster the entrepreneurial spirit on the Gold Coast, as our city has the highest per capita rate of business ownership in Australia.
The first team to pitch on the night were our Somerset Alumni Middle Years Pitch Competition winners, including Cawin Ashok Kumar, Jaime Dwyer, and Marcus Nguyen. These four students pitched their newly developed and fully operational citation software called Minima. The crowd was amazed by the sophisticated algorithms that run this software, particularly given that all members of the team are less than 14 years of age.
The second group to pitch on the night won our Bond University Senior Years Pitch Competition at the Celebration of Entrepreneurship. This team included Anna Harris, Sarah McTaggart, Ashleigh Shannon and Eva Wallace. Like Team Tangram before them, they too received high praise and are close to securing mentoring support from several high profile Gold Coast entrepreneurs who see huge potential in their idea to use recycled plastic bags to produce active wear.
At the networking event after the pitch competition, students were introduced by Dr Baden U’Ren from Bond University to four Gold Coast entrepreneurs including Eden Shirley from Autoguru, Michael Metcalfe from Kynd, Josh Murchie from Little Phil and Diana Scott from Frontier Pets. As a result of introductions to these local entrepreneurs, our students have been able to take the first steps to acquire Angel Investor funding for their new businesses.
These students have done both their families and the College proud!
It is wonderful to see the entrepreneurial mindset is alive and well in the Somerset College community!
Can you label the mathematical clock by placing the values in the correct places?
If you are able to answer this question correctly, then you would be able to sit the MYP eAssessment for 2018.
The eAssessment helps achieve greater student outcomes and provides greater quality assurance and recognition for International Baccalaureate. The on-screen examination is both rich and authentic, uses video and animations as well as interactive functions, such as the ability to plot graphs and draw lines and pictures to engage students.
Congratulations to the following students who have completed the MYP eAssesment for Mathematics Extended in 2018.
Mohnish Chand, Joanne Ryu, Jacinta Mai, Sige Xu, Desmond Chuah and Clare Hong.
I would like to recognise the participation of these students, who completed the assessment in addition to their regular examinations, and congratulate them on their efforts and achievements.
Our team was expecting the Alumni team to be good, however I don't think we realised how competitive the game was going to become. The crowd of parents, students and staff surrounding Koala House watched on as both teams endured some big hits, fantastic marks and close goals. We were feeling confident after the first two quarters and managing to get a lead, however this wasn't for long. The Alumni team only needed the first half to get back into the AFL mindset after not playing for multiple years. The score became extremely close towards the end of the third quarter and we listened intently to Matt Smith's final quarter time pep-talk before taking the field for the final 10 minutes.
The last quarter was the toughest yet and with a minute and a half to go, we were up by two points. Unfortunately for the senior girls, an exceptional mark in front of goal in the final minute saw the Alumni team score a sneaky goal by Tuna (Christina Vinaccia, Class of 2016), leaving our team with a task of catching up in this short amount of time. In the end, the Alumni team proved that they were all definitely still extremely skilled at the sport, winning by four points.
This new tradition was enjoyed thoroughly by all players and having our parents, friends and teachers there to support us was amazing. Hopefully this continues next year - although the Year 11s are a bit nervous to take on many of the year 12s in our team when they move on to the Alumni team. Let's just hope Alice can maybe take it easy on us?
Thank you to Mr Lunniss, Miss Oppermann and Molly Ritson for all of their work organising the match, to Matt Smith (Class of 2017) and Mrs McQueen for coaching the teams on the day, and to all of the staff, parents and students who came along to support us!
In the Junior Masters, Kenny Ming finished in second place with 5.5/7, and Eason Wang was third with 5/7. Jennifer Yeung also performed well, scoring 4/7 and winning the best girl prize. Eason also won the prize for the overall Junior Masters Champion for 2018, having the highest combined score across the four terms.
Kona Baldock had an outstanding result, winning the One Day Challenge with 7.5/8. That’s seven wins and only one draw, no losses. An outstanding result that rewards all the hard work that he’s been putting into his chess this year. As part of winning the One Day Challenge, Kona has earned an automatic spot and free entry into the Junior Masters Term One next year.
Year 1 student Calen Tang had an excellent 5.5/8, 9th place and winning the trophy for first Rating Group A. When Calen and Kona played each other in round 7, they were leading the whole field of 75 with 5.5/6. Sasha Hanford scored 5/8 and earned 3rd Rating Group A.
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