The Bilyana Grazing maths unit is a maths project that the Year 9 students work on throughout the year. Simon and Katie Gleeson, with permission from Barrie and Angela Molloy, provide regular heifer weights to the students who develop and apply their own maths knowledge and skills to analyse real data from the heifer rearing business. Students recently hosted Simon and Katie who outlined their business, it's history and explained core costs and budgeting in the real world to our students who tracked the growth of individual heifers over time. The Year 8 students made their Camembert cheese these week. Now the process of ageing the cheese begins. As part of their Year 7 maths studies students learn about the maths that is required to run a sheep business investigating things like income/expenditure, drench dosage rates, ratios, percentage & fraction calculations, interpreting data & tables. Cameron McKenzie was invited into the classroom to help contextualize their learning & explained about his sheep enterprise in Peterborough & was able to answer the many queries students had about running a sheep operation. The 7B science students used the still to distill some eucalyptus oil. The distillation process demonstrated the concepts of vaporisation and condensation. The next step is for the students to separate the oil from the distillate. One of the requirements of the Dairy Australia, Camembert in the Classroom unit is to design a multimedia ad promoting dairy. Our Year 8 Science students recently hosted Narelle Allen from GenR8 who encouraged students to design an ad that focused on building a brand, identifying your target and challenging your mindset to think about what your audience wants, not what you want to tell them! Sit back and enjoy our 2015 award winning Cows Create Careers videos. |
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