The Autumn Concerts held recently were a great success.  All students are to be commended for their enthusiasm and wonderful performances.

Thanks to the Music Support Committee for their work throughout the evening.  Also thanks to parent, Mr Victor Yong, for his photography work at the event.

Tim Stapleton, Head of Music

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Congratulations to Mr Regan and the Upper School Boys AFL team. They were short on numbers for their game against Corpus Christi yesterday, but as always, they did their best to represent the school in a positive way. While they struggle a bit on the scoreboard, the joy when they play is really encouraging. They have one more game to go and I am sure there would be no-one happier than Mr Regan if they were to put in a competitive showing against his old school Willetton. While the aim of the team is to have fun, it is worth noting that one of last year’s players Trent Newton is now in East Fremantle Colts and another former player Alex Howson was on the Dockers list and is now part of the East Fremantle WAFL League team.

B Snell, Year 10 Co-ordinator (and goal umpire)

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Under the partnership of the Memorandum of Understanding between Applecross SHS and Murdoch University, we currently host two Computer Science students in our Software Development class each week. Maddy Topaz and Anna Whitcher are both highly skilled software developers who joined our class of Year 10 students in Term 1. These students come to one lesson each week to share their love of C# (C Sharp) and online gaming and to upskill both the classroom teacher, Ms Reed, and the students.  Students have been learning how to code in C# as Maddy and Anna take them through coding basics and introduce them to the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) of Visual Studio.  We have progressed to debugging an existing game and the students are eager to create their own programs.

The assessed work will be based on the Software Development Life Cycle. Each group will document their programs using the diagrams and models in the Life Cycle. In this way we are teaching students not just how to code, but how to disassemble problems and to plan, solve and document the solutions in a structured manner.  The classes are very hands on and interactive and the feedback from students has been positive. Murdoch academics have committed to this program as a leadership opportunity for their students and have requested that the mentoring be an ongoing arrangement.

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The fourth round of WADL debating occurred on Wednesday 31^st May.  The Year 7 team remains undefeated.  They won convincingly with a fantastic rebuttal from their third speaker. This time they were debating that religious activities should be banned to children under 18- as the negative team. The Year 8 teams also had this topic. The opposition for one Year 8 team had declared a forfeit and the other teams came away the victors. The Year 9 teams have postponed their debate.  The Year 11 team had to forfeit due to their exams.

A big thank you to all team members, teachers who facilitate these debates, and the supportive families. We have even had younger siblings taking on the role of chairperson on the night and team members from one group stepping in for other teams.

Chris Raich, AE Coordinator