Year 8 Hiking

During Term 3 the Year 8 Sports Education class has been focusing on the skills required to pitch a tent, preparing meals, understanding the correct equipment used for hiking and using a Trangia to cook meals. We went on a day hike to the You Yangs for an 8km hike and the students were required to cook their own meals during the hike.

Cybersecurity Incursion

During Term 3 Optus Digital Thumbprint attended Sirius College and taught students how to be safe, responsible and positive. The main topics focused on were:

Cybersecurity: Students are led through the skills of creating strong passwords, enabling privacy settings on social media, and understanding just how easily and far things can spread when shared on the internet. Students play a detective game to understand the power and the danger of what is shared online.

Digital citizenship themes such as discernment, privacy, empathy, cyber-safety, and connectedness are interwoven throughout the workshop. Cyberbullying With themes of digital persona, reputation, discernment, cyber-bullying, connectedness, and privacy embedded in the workshop content. This workshop focusses on the importance of being authentically oneself online with friends and the world, through the exploration of relationships and cyberbullying in compelling scenarios. It develops a discernment in the lack of authenticity in celebrity social media accounts and their intent. It explores how social media can be used to enhance your digital identity.

Digital Discernment which explores the power students have online to influence both positively and negatively through the choices they make and the way they behave. Through interactive activities, it highlights the necessity for using discernment in consuming online media, such as fake news and social media posts; and provides opportunities for students to practice problem-solving with each other through dealing with real situations related to social media use and relationships. It explores the power social media has to influence society and friends positively for a better world. The main digital citizenship themes encompassed by this workshop are cyber-bullying, cyber-safety, connectedness, reputation, discernment, and privacy.

Year 8 Humanities folio artworks

Year 8 have had a busy year in humanities so far. As part of their studies into an Asian culture, Meadow Fair’s year 8 Humanities students created a series of artworks that demonstrate the sheer talent present at Sirius College. The teachers of Humanities at Sirius College attempt to assess students understanding of content through a wide range of traditional and untraditional methods and this are folio is a perfect example. Students were asked to demonstrate their understanding of Japanese art and culture by creating works related to the classical period of Japan. The students created works ranging for natural landscapes to origami and a wooden samurai sword.

I am sure you would agree that this work is truly amazing. The works are on display in Mr Barrie’s P9 classroom with the names of their proud creators on them. Parents of Sirius College are encouraged to support their children’s learning buy keeping a close eye on their homework and study and helping out where possible. I would like to give a big thank you to all the parents of year 8 who put time and effort into helping their sons gather supplies and create these spectacular works. Education is a team effort and when we work together amazing things can happen.