It’s been a super busy and productive week for our Year 7, 8, and 9 students! From our exciting class trip to the school’s Halloween event, the week has been packed with learning and fun experiences both in and out of the classroom.
🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
What a way to end the week with our School Halloween event, it was filled with fun, and spooky excitement! Students enjoyed a costume showcase, circus performances, face painting, a haunted house an escape room, and even a Squid Game challenge. The event ended with a lively Paper Disco Party and awards for best masks, candy-guessing winners, and treasure hunt champions. A big thank you to our PTA and staff for helping make the day such a success! 👻🕸️
Class Trip
This week, students visited the United Nations Peace Memorial Hall and the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan to deepen their understanding of responsibility and remembrance. During the guided tour, they learned about the role of the UN and the 22 nations that supported South Korea during the Korean War. Students explored the stories of soldiers who served and reflected on how the sacrifices made in the past continue to shape peace and responsibility today.
Literacy
This week, students continued their Gothic and Horror Creative Writing unit by exploring how writers carefully shape tension and suspense. They first examined how sentence structure can control pace and emotion, experimenting with short, sharp sentences to create a sense of panic and longer ones to build anticipation. In “From Calm to Chaos: Building Rising Tension,” students mapped out how stories move from ordinary moments to moments of fear, using their own tension arcs to plan a scene that gradually intensifies. To end the week, they studied foreshadowing through Chapter 1 of The Monkey’s Paw. Identifying how small hints from the stormy setting to the mysterious warnings subtly suggest the tragic events to come.
IMYC
For IMYC, we are reaching the end of our unit called ‘Responsibility’. We have spent the week wrapping up learning for this unit.
In history this week, students built on their visit to the UN Peace Memorial Hall by researching key aspects of the Korean War and the role of the United Nations. Working in small groups, they investigated different topics such as major events in the war, the involvement of UN nations, and how the conflict’s legacy is remembered today. Each group created and presented their findings, explaining how different countries and individuals showed responsibility during and after the war.
In Geography, students worked in groups to research how climate change is affecting different countries around the world. Using maps and real data, they identified regions most impacted by extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, and wildfires. Each group investigated the causes, effects, and levels of responsibility behind these changes, then prepared a short presentation to share their findings with the class.
Maths
Year 7
This week the students finished their unit on place value and ordering integers & decimals, and then we took the end-of-unit assessment on Friday. Everyone did well on the assessment. After the holiday we will start studying a new unit on fraction, decimal & percentage equivalence.
Year 8
This week, students worked on the following topics:
- Aut.4.10 – Plot graphs of the form y = mx + c
- Aut.4.11 – Explore non-linear graphs (H)
- Aut.4.12 – Find the midpoint of a line segment (H)
Students have been learning how to interpret and plot both linear and non-linear graphs, showing excellent understanding and confidence in applying these concepts.
A test was conducted on Friday, and the assessment papers have been given to students for review at home.
Fantastic effort and engagement from everyone this week!
Year 9
This week, students explored three-dimensional shapes. They learned to:
- Identify and name a range of 2D and 3D shapes (Aut.4.1)
- Recognise prisms and understand key terms such as edges, faces, and vertices (Aut.4.2)
- Draw accurate nets of cuboids and other 3D shapes (Aut.4.3–4)
- Interpret and create plans and elevations of 3D shapes (Aut.4.5)
Students enjoyed using both visual and practical activities to develop their spatial reasoning and deepen their understanding of 3D geometry.































































































































































































