Drivers Ed
The Year 10 Students attended the Charlton Pre-Driver Education Centre, also known as CHARTSEC, for an overnight stay on Monday August 19. This program gives the students real world driving experience in cars under the guidance of qualified driving instructors. Students, in groups, share a car with half in the car and the other half […]
New Bikes
On Monday August 20 Trudy Symes, Stacey Lloyd, David Gracia and the Primary School Captains- Finn Austerberry and Arli Roberts travelled to Swan Hill for the presentation of the Variety Children’s Charity bikes. They also were fortunate enough to see vehicles from Australia’s longest running charity motoring event, the Variety Bash! Over 10 days each […]
Year 9 Humanities Biomes
Year 9 Humanities (Geography Unit), students have been investigating the characteristics of biomes and how they vary depending on climate. A biome is a particular geographic region that can be recognised by the plants and animal species that naturally live there. They discovered there are numerous types of biomes throughout the world, from Tropical rainforest, […]
Primary Olympics
Every Thursday our primary school students have been coming together to celebrate the 2024 France Olympics. Students have been divided into different countries including Sweden, China, Great Britain, Australia and the United States of America. Within these groups, students worked together to complete activities celebrating everything Olympics. Students have made posters, played Olympic games bingo, […]
2024 Mallee Machinery Field Days
On Wednesday July 31, Tyrrell College had a whole school excursion to the Speed Field Days. The Mallee Machinery Field Days at Speed is a great once a year event that spans across two days. There is a wide range of businesses there covering multiple industries, from marketing, ariculture, machinery, craft and more. The Field […]
Active Volunteering – Doing our bit for the community
The Year 9 Active Volunteering VET class together with the Year 10 students volunteered their time on Wednesday July 31 and Thursday August 1 at the Lions Speed Field Days to assist with car parking , the MND fundraising and taking photos of people with the Field Days Instagram frame . They also manned the […]
RETURN OF THE BULLY
On Monday July 22, the primary cohort watched the performance the ‘Return of the Bully’. Through an interactive and humorous play, students were taught strategies of how to deal with a bully. The performance showcased two actors playing three different roles- Poppy (Grade 4 student), Alex (the bully) and Sensai (karate teacher). Poppy was bullied […]
NAIDOC week
On Tuesday July 16 all students and staff partook in the NAIDOC week celebrations. We were fortunate enough to have Skye Stewart give us a welcome to the country address before the kick-offs began. On this very windy, cold day we had to compromise and use a normal football, rather than the traditional football made […]
Author Visit – Andrew Kelly
On Wednesday June 19 the Primary students, along with the Sea Lake kinder students, had a guest appearance from Andrew Kelly- author of ‘Cry Hard Chucky’, a picture book that explores and encourages male vulnerability to teach young boys to express their emotions. Andrew was born and raised on a wheat and sheep farm in […]
Year 9 Farm Production
On Thursday June 6, three of Mr. Wrights Year 9 Farm Production students: Jacob Cox, Dylan Cook and Sienna Allan had the opportunity to drive the school tractor after finishing all their required bookwork. These students, with the help of Mr. Wright, were able to maneuver in between cones and practice reversing the tractor. So […]