Years 7, 8 and 9 Program Leader | Mr Damien Coman

Firstly, I would like to congratulate the students who participated in the University of Queensland/Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers Problem Solving Competition. Yet again, our Middle Years' students produced some outstanding results across the Queensland schools. In Year 8 Adrian Jesuthasan, Dane Ball and Ryan Wong all tied for second place. In Year 9 Tyler O’Farrell placed second and Charlie Macuga placed third. Well done gentlemen.
 
Ms Lisa Maltman of The Sleep Connection will be a guest speaker for our Year 7 students next Wednesday. The issue of sleep for adolescents is in the news on an almost weekly basis. Technology has certainly proved to be a major cause of sleep deprivation in teenagers with this age of instant connection to their favourite games, television shows and movies, which is a vast challenge for adults.
 
Year 9 Roll Call will commence again this Friday from 7.50am in Room 5.4. I will facilitate this process of simply recalling what happened and what was learnt across the boys’ subjects for the week.
 
Our last three Houses are attending their Outdoor Education camps in Year 8, whilst Year 9s start their camps from Week 4.
 
The Years 7-9 Formation program commences with a student reflection of last term, leading to setting realistic but challenging goals for the term ahead, with strategies for how the students actually plan to do this. Students also form a weekly routine for homework and revision taking into account the time that they do not have for training, travel, dinner, etc. We also move into Parent/Student/Teacher interviews, which is another opportunity to seek feedback in order to continue to improve across specific subjects.