This term has certainly been jam packed for the Science department, particularly for our year 11's. All year 11's have completed their unit 2 assessment and have started working towards their year 12 work. 

Our year 11 Science in Practice students have been hard at work building cane toad traps in an effort to reduce our invasive cane toad population as humanely as possible.

Student are hoping to be able to test their traps out later this term to determine how successful they are in capturing the toads.

Our year 11 Biology students embarked on a mammoth excursion to conduct their mandatory fieldwork. Students went to Jacobs Well where they travelled to several different locations to collect data on abiotic and biotic factors in order to compare the biodiversity in different locations. 

Once students had collected their data, they travelled to Sea World where they were able to analyse and discuss the data they had collected. Student also had the opportunity to snorkel while at Sea World and have a behind the scene tour of the jellyfish research laboratory on site at Sea World.

The students all reported they had an excellent time, although they were very tired by the time they returned to school.

Our year 7-10's are all starting to prepare for their assessment period, with 7, 8, 10 psychology and 10 applied science working on assignments and year 9 and the remaining year 10's having exams in weeks 8 and 9. Please reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns around these tasks.