You are cordially invited to the

“Year 9 Journey’s Exhibition”

held on the 19th June 2009

in the Performing Arts Centre & Gym area

of Maryborough Education Centre.

The program for the day is;
9.00am – 10.40am Journey set-up for the day
11.30am – 12.00pm Year 6s
12.00pm – 12.30pm Year 7s
12.30pm – 1.00pm Year 8s
1.00pm – 1.30pm Year 9 Lunch
1.30pm – 2.00pm Year 2s, Year 4s, Beckworth Students

2.00pm – 2.30pm

Parents, Family & Friends, School Council & Community Guests

Please support us, at the times indicated above, in our celebration of the Year 9 Journeys program.
*Please note that these sessions may be subject to change.

Mr B Healy
(Principal)
On behalf of the Year 9 Journeys Teachers & Students

STONE AGE TEENAGERS

Year 7 humanities students recently participated in an excursion to Bristol Hill to emulate the lives of Stone Age

Man. Students used raw materials from the bush to build primitive shelters, fires and weapons. Students enjoyed

“learning how life was back then.”

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Journeys Exhibition on the 17^th of June. It was an excellent opportunity for the Year 9’s to share a taste of their learning with the rest of the community.  We were grateful that so many people were able to come and participate in the day.

Journeys is a Year 9 program where all the students in Year 9 participate in an activity of their choice for the whole
day every Friday. The activities are Journalism and Radio, Cooking, Transition Ambassadors, Sports Coaching, Bike
Riding, Sculpture, Go-Karts, and Landscaping.
At last week’s secondary staff meeting we had a number of Year 9 students present information and ideas about this
year’s journey’s program. The students were thoroughly prepared and spoke with great confidence, passion and
humour. The staff were impressed with the reflection the students had shown. All the students appear to be enjoying
their Fridays are keen to see the program continue. Congratulations must go Erin Bromley, Toni Greenwood, Angel
Wings, Allison Stroud, Jacob Glen, Callum Rowe, Stephanie Leirich & Natalie Thorne Lisa Russell and Tiarne
Clugston for the way they overcame their nerves and represented the student’s views.

Picture above and right, Jessica,
Chelsea, Ashley, Becky & Jake.

JOURNALISM AND RADIO
Journalism and Radio is a small group of students participating in a
series of activities around the Centre and community. We write up
articles about big stories and events in our community and school. We
also work on the community radio. Where 2 to 4 students every Friday
from our class go down and guest star on community hour at the radio
station goldfields FM. We talk about things happening at MEC and
around Maryborough. Soon we a organizing a full page in the
Maryborough Advertiser for us to put stories, poems, quizzes, pictures
and anything about MEC in it. We have a very creative Bunch of
students in this journey. It includes. Tiarne Clugston, Angel Wings, Lisa
Russell, Toni Greenwood, Lachy Hickey, Steven Judge, Matthew
Argall, (pictured left), Sam Martin, Tash Cam and Mitchell Pearse. Keep
a look out for articles in the Maryborough advertiser and in the MEC
newsletter from these talented year 9 students.

FOOD & BEVERAGE
Food and Beverage student Tonya McKenzie was interviewed by Journalism Angel Wings
“In Food and Beverage we make a recipe in the first two periods. In the 3rd and 4th periods we do theory, such as
making recipes and filling in our journal book. Period five and six we make another recipe and take a photo of what
we made. It’s great!”

GO-KARTS
In the Go-karts Journey the kids are working on a dune buggy and some are planning to weld a go-kart frame
together.
Steven Judge from the Radio & Journalism team asked what they thought of their journey. “It’s cool” replied Chris
Christensen. “Yeah its good,” said Chris Evans. “It’s good,” said Lewis Ford.

TOUR DE PYRENEES
In the ‘bikes’ journey, students are fixing bikes and making them road worthy. The students are also taking apart the
bikes and putting them back together.

Matthew Argall asked some of the students what they thought of the journey. “It’s fun,” said Jordan Rich.

“It’s pretty good,” said Tarran Neill.
Matthew also asked the question “Have you learnt anything?”

“I have learnt how to take the bikes apart and put them back together” Jordan Rich replied.

“Yeah I have learnt a couple of things,” Tarran Neill responded.

LANDSCAPING
Currently in the Landscaping and Building Journey, the students
have been busy concreting and cutting planks of wood for the
construction of a new retaining wall out the front of the canteen.
Radio and Journalism student, Mitchell Pearse asked a couple of the
landscaping students what they thought of their journey program.
“It’s a great experience, because we get to go out of class and do
things around the school yard.” “It’s fun to do something different.”
“It’s challenging but it’s still fun.”

Students enjoyed their second day of Journeys last Friday.

The Radio and Journalism students finished their Live to Air Licensing Exam and the first team of students presented their own shows.  Interested listeners can tune in every Friday between 2 and 3 to hear the MEC Connect Live Show on Goldfield’s FM community hour.

In other Journeys student from Tour de Pyrenees have participated in bike mechanic lessons as they make their school bikes road worthy for future adventures.

The students from Food and Beverage have made numerous taste tempting delectable treats to the delight of passing teachers who may get to sample the odd waffle or wrap.

The Landscaping troupe have made significant improvements outside the canteen area having taken on the unenviable task of transforming rock hard clay and dust into a appealing place for students with crow bars and shovels. Reports on these and other Journeys will be a regular feature of the Centre Newsletter.

Julie Reiger