Wellington Outdoor Education
Winston became the 1st partnership school to take students to Wellington College's new Outdoor Education Day. Twelve students from Year7 had the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities, all led by an outdoor instructor.
The tasks involved aimed to provide an environment of challenge and failure, which our students were tasked to overcome. In the beginning there was a lot of shouting and individuality but by the afternoon the students were more team orientated and thoughtful in their planning which led to better outcomes.
Finally, a high ropes leap of faith proved to be out of the comfort zone of everyone involved. For some, just getting up the ladder was an achievement but it was great to see everyone encouraging and cheering each other on. The final thought of the day for our students to take away was: "Sometimes we are too close to a problem to see everything. Take a step back to make a better change."
Mr Martin
The Van de Graaf Generator
On Thursday and Friday , Dr Lau used the Van de Graaf generator, among other demonstrations, to recap the physics topics across her classes . Static electricity allowed the 'brave' volunteers from both 9CE and 7WN (both pictured) to feel their hair follicles get charged and let their hair "fly" away. The insulated generator creates positively charged electrons and the student gets slowly positively charged, too as they touch the silver dome. Due to the fact that like charges repel , they will try to get far away from each other as possible , therefore the hair stands up."
