Gifted & Talented Buzz

09 Aug

Posted at 08:41h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Maxwell Liu (Year 8), represented Western Australia in the U15 squad. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

23 Jul

Posted at 08:52h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]After studying the test in Fahrenheit 451, students had to select a feature film, TV show, or song playlist and demonstrate the intertextuality between both. This task was not just about understanding the texts in isolation,...

26 Jun

Posted at 08:39h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]safeTALK is a half day workshop that upskills anyone over the age of 15 to comfortably have conversations about mental health, recognise when a person may be having thoughts of suicide and safely guide them to...

26 Jun

Posted at 08:35h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Pairs of students were required to solve mathematical problems to reach their destinations. The activity required students to expand, factorise, simplify, rearrange, substitute and design a poster outlining the three methods for factorising quadratics. The students...

28 May

Posted at 08:31h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Students measured water quality - pH, turbidity, temperature, moisture content of soil and wind speed. A dichotomous key was used to identify a range of macroinvertebrate species living in the water.   [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 May

Posted at 08:58h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Year 8 Gifted and Talented students were given the opportunity to use modern biotechnology to understand first-hand how scientists are applying these processes to support the conservation effort of our essential Western Australian biodiversity.   [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

21 May

Posted at 08:42h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Year 8 Gifted and Talented students participated in the challenge which aims to engage students' algorithmic thinking skills in a fun and interactive environment.   [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

13 May

Posted at 10:56h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Congratulations Venkat Lanka, Mika Burford, Praneel Bhushan, Chuqi Zhang, Marcela Clennell, Hannie Tan, Mehuly Mandal and Raina Gupta on being selected to the Gifted and Talented leaders’ team. These students will represent the lower school cohort...

13 May

Posted at 10:48h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]Students recently participated in the Bebras Challenge.  The Bebras challenge is designed to help students explorer their talents and passion for informatics and computational thinking with engaging challenges. It is an international challenge that involves over...

13 May

Posted at 10:24h in Gifted & Talented Buzz

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_gallery interval="3" images="5865"][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]The Zero2Hero humankind program is informed by an evidence-based model called compassion-focus therapy. Year 9 Gifted and Talented students attended the first of four workshops this week.   Highlights from this program includes creating compassionate...