St Ives High School

The Year 8 HPGE Robotics Program involves 20 highly enthusiastic students who arrive at school an hour early each Wednesday to work with the mBot2 robots. The program aims to develop students’ critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills through block coding and robotics challenges.
Each week, students work towards competing in the Riley Cup Challenge in July.
Throughout the program, they investigate challenges such as improving the robot’s
ability to follow lines consistently and developing systems to detect and rescue victims. At the conclusion of each session, students reflect on the challenges they encountered and the strategies they used to overcome them.

The library hosted an amazing First Chapter Friday this morning! Three of our teachers performed the first three scenes of Shakespeare's Macbeth for our audience of students and staff to watch and enjoy before lessons began. Thanks to Bardophiles Mr T, Ms O and Mr B for their amazing performance!

Our St Ives High School Ensemble had the wonderful opportunity to perform in Mary Poppins Jr. as part of the Combined Schools Musical program run by The Arts Unit. Our ensemble was especially fortunate to share the stage with two St Ives High School students who were cast in lead roles: Zara M. as Mary Poppins and Caitlin C. as Mrs Brill/Mrs Corry. A huge congratulations to our cast made up of students from Years 7 to 10. What an amazing opportunity for our students. We look forward to participating again next year!

Industrial Technology Timber students are working in earnest on their Occasional Tables. Incorporating hand cut mortise and tenon joints, the small table is an ongoing project which will take the students two terms to complete. Starting with basic plans, the students will embellish them with design changes as they learn new skills along the way.

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Congratulations to our two teams who entered the Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) for the Northern District on Saturday and Sunday. Our teams of students from Years 10-12 represented Saudi Arabia and Fiji. We are delighted to announce that our Year 12 team were the winners! This team will now compete in the National Final in Canberra in August. This was an outstanding achievement by all the students and reflects their significant preparation, teamwork, and public speaking skills.

We want to congratulate each of our spectacular music students who recently performed for our community. Their dedication and commitment to perfecting their parts, attending rehearsals and eagerness to perform is to be commended. Our Year 12 students performed one of their HSC pieces, receiving detailed feedback to help prepare them for their final performances.
We look forward to seeing you at our next concert!

Accelerated Reader program with Year 7

We are really pleased with Year 7’s great start to the Accelerated Reader program. Despite having school camp, NAPLAN, peer support and other interruptions, we are really proud of the positive start, as these statistics show.
To continue completing quizzes for books read, students access the Renaissance Accelerated Reader website: https://global-zone60.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/1454188