Lisa earned the right to participate in the State Schools Cross Country last week and ran an outstanding race. She finished the course in a time of 11:25, coming 31st out of 75 runners. Lisa made mention of the muddy, wet and slippery course, and was extremely happy with her efforts. We are very proud of your efforts Lisa. Well done!
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Visit from Rory – Year 10 ADVANCE
Daily Reading
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Teacher Exhibition at Phyllis Palmer Gallery
On Wednesday of this week there is an Art Teachers Exhibition at Phyllis Palmer Gallery at Latrobe University. Mrs Townsend has 3 art works in the exhibition, which opens on Wednesday at 5:30pm and runs for 1 month. All community members are welcome to attend the opening on Wednesday.
The art work above has been done with multimedia and then collaged together. It is A3 size on paper under glass.
Cross Country Medallions
Gymnastics Block
From The German Embassy in Canberra
Chisel Scholarship
VCE Biology Excursion Melbourne University
On Tuesday, Mr Phelan and the Year 12 Biology class went to Melbourne for a Genetics Workshop at Melbourne University. We investigated the genetics of the Drosophila fruit fly. We had to anaesthetise the flies and determine males from females and which characteristics successive generations actually had. We also looked at aspects of recombinant DNA technology and gene splicing, and the copper resistance gene. We used Gel Electrophoresis, a laboratory technique used for studying DNA, to look at the CopR gene.
The East Loddon students were in a group of about 100 students, most from prestigious Melbourne schools. Our group was supported by a PHD graduate student. We used a variety of great equipment including micropipettes and fabulous microscopes and set up lanes of DNA with fluorescent markers in Agarose gel, for the electrophoresis technique. The series of experiments that we preformed was really challenging, but we learnt a lot and had a really good day overall. This information will be used in our unit 4 SAC work coming up. By Chelsea T