Room 10's assembly item for 2014 was a fractured fairytale of Hansel and Gretel. A fractured fairytale is designed to create humor by changing the story in unexpected ways, altering characters and adding modern language and events. Fractured fairy tales are closely related to fairytale parodies. A parody is a humorous version of a well known story.

Year 7 Camp to Kalgoorlie

During week 3 this term, Year 7's had the opportunity to board the Prospector train and head for the goldfields, Kalgoorlie was our destination. We spent 5 full days out in the Goldfields, which included a variety of activities, history and even weather. We experienced a number of seasons within our five days. We had a thunderstorm, rain, wind, heat (36 degrees) and even a couple of cool evenings. But apart from all of that, we had a fabulous week. We visited so many places, these included the Royal Flying Doctor, Weather Station, Coolgardie, Boulder, two old hotels (Palace and Federation), which were full of history and even a mine shaft inside one of them. We learnt about how the miners lived in the past and how difficult their lives would have been for them and their families.

The Super Pit in Kalgoorlie

One of the many dump trucks used in the Super Pit
Each tyre is worth $4500 each

Jack Cairns Humpy just out of Coolgardie

Warden Finley's House, built by the Bunning's brothers

Boulder Town Hall curtain, the only one in the WORLD!
Bread and milk are used to clean the curtain.

Paddy Hannon statue outside the Kalgoorlie Town Hall in Hannon Street

 Having a break at Hammond Park

  On the train, ready for our 6 hour journey back to Perth

Having a break at Merridan

KAGAN STRATEGIES IN ROOM 10

Throughout the year, students in Room 10 use cooperative strategies within their learning. These strategies assist students during the collaborative sessions within their Learning teams. The strategies used are based on Kagan Collaborative skills. Here are some examples used by the students in Room 10.

Students using the strategy 'INSIDE, OUTSIDE CIRCLE'.

This was used to discuss their personal ideas about Global Warming.

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 After their discussion on Global Warming outside the classroom, the students then came back into the classroom and wrote all the different points about their topic in dot form on their individual white boards.

After a set amount of time, the students then used the strategy of 'Show Down' and displayed their answers for discussion to the other members within their collaborative group.