After such an amazing camp, all Year 6 students came back to school feeling reenergised and new friendships have been formed.  As their teacher, I saw the value of individual students taking on different roles as part of the Leadership challenges on camp.   Every student had the opportunity to shine in their own individual way, no matter what the challenge.  Every student was on an equal level and no matter what the obstacles, I saw comradery and solidarity.  Values that are important at St Joseph’s and that we will speak of often over the next few weeks.  

In the last ten days we have visited WCC for our Transition days twice. Lots of different emotions happening with the students, but a very positive feeling overall.  The WCC Yr 7 staff were so welcoming and positive about the students who will be attending next year.

The following comments are from our Yr 6 students regarding transitioning to Year 7:

WCC year 7 will be awesome because the teachers are so nice to us, and the students are kind. I can't wait to go there so we can do wood work and home economics. 

The first day we went we made a cool key ring out of plastic, then we made choc chip muffins which was pretty cool. We then went to the lunch area to eat lunch. At lunch we played touch footy. Then we walked back to school. 

Luke and Liam

Transition days are going well and on the first day we got to make a keychain for our bags out of acrylic in manual arts. Then we went to cooking class and made chocolate chip muffins. We even got to wear aprons and hair nets. In the cooking class everyone had a blast and at the end had to clean the dishes and then put them back where they went. Then when the high schoolers went for second lunch we walked home.

Jess and Sienna

Food studies

Two weeks ago Grade 6 went to WCC and we got an idea of what food studies is like there. We were given a bunch of ingredients to use according to the recipe. We were making a batch of chocolate chip muffins. Once we finished cooking them in the oven we tried them and they were delicious. Then we packed up all our muffins into our food boxes and we left back to St Josephs. 

Tom, Jake and Charlie

On transition day we did three different activities such as food art, manual art, and core group. Let's talk about manual arts. For manual arts we made keychains out of acrylic. How we did it is we filed it down and then we sanded it making it very smooth. After that we buffed it down and Sir drilled a hole in in it using a drill press. Then we put it in an oven to make it flex a lot and bend but not break it then we got welding gloves and plies to twist it then we put it in cold water to make it stay twisted. After that we put a key chain in it and turned a normal  of acrylic into a keychain.

Overall it was a great transition and it was very fun.  

Angus Kai and Kyan

During lunch time at WCC we had an amazing time. 

We ate our lunch near the tuckshop then sat down at the croc stage. Then the girls (Jess, Jasmine, Sophie, Sienna, Ramona, Kayla, Ava) decided to have a wonder around the school. We eventually got lost and saw some WCC students and asked them where we were. They just laughed and sadly didn't help. We then saw Miss Agnew, our previous teacher and asked her what our next class was. Our next class was home ec so Ava showed us where our other class was. Then we went back to the tuckshop and found the rest of our class.

Sophie and Jasmine

Next year I will be moving to Brisbane and I will be going to Iona College at Wynnum.  When I went for my transition day I had a tour around the school, I met some teachers.  It is way bigger than Weipa. I am looking forward to manual arts and I got to use a microscope and look at fish scales in the science lab.

Jaiden