Category Archives: Goings On

Curtin opens the door to Shenton students

23Jul2019

Eight Shenton College students have started their journey to university while still at school through the Curtin University Innovative Schools Scholars Program.

Enrolled in units this semester from creative writing to epidemiology, fine art to programming, the students have extended their learning in their chosen fields.

The staff at Curtin University welcomed our students and supported their enrolment at the Curtin Connect Student Hub at a special orientation event. Students met their professors, classmates and course advisers and took a tour of the campus.

The students, in Years 10 & 11, attend classes either on campus or online, participate in lectures and discussions, and complete all the assessment and learning requirements of the first year units they are studying. The students say the work is challenging and they enjoy the extension. The advice they give is that the key to managing university is to be organised and read ahead.

The Curtin Innovative Schools Scholars Program is a pilot program for 2019, offered to Shenton College through the Innovative Schools Consortium Partnership with the university.

Ben Wyatt visits for NAIDOC Week

02Jul2019

Ben Wyatt, the State Treasurer, visited Shenton College in the last week of Term 2 to talk to Senior School students about the importance of NAIDOC Week. Celebrations are held across Australia in July to acknowledge the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This year the theme was Voice. Treaty. Truth: key elements to the reforms set out in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. These reforms represent the unified position of First Nations Australians. Initially to have a First Nations Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Constitution and second, a Makarrata Commission to supervise treaty processes and truth-telling.

For generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have looked for significant and lasting change. The 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart built on generations of consultation and discussions among Indigenous people.

National NAIDOC Co-Chair John Paul Janke believes 2019 is a unique opportunity to hear this nation’s Indigenous voice. This year is the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages.

Annual Report 2017

05Jun2018

It is with great pleasure that I present to parents, staff and students the Shenton College Annual Report for 2017. Shenton College had a sound year in 2017 with strong academic and non-academic success. Our on-going focus on the ‘whole child’ resulted in a great many opportunities beyond the classroom that our students both enjoyed and more often than not, excelled in.
2017 was a year of transition and the College’s strong performance is a testimony to its structures, collaboration, depth and breadth.

Annual Report 2017

WA Youth Award Winners

13Oct2017

Last night two of our students, Lily Purser and Alyssa Wong, were awarded the RAC Innovation for a Sustainable Future Award at the WA Youth Awards. Congratulations and thanks go to their teachers who have supported their STEM students in achieving amazing outcomes this year. Both Lily and Alyssa have also been named as finalists in the 2017 UNAAWA School’s Sustainability Challenge (winner to be announced at Government House later this month).

The work done by these teachers is yet another example of “more than just marks – learning for life.”

TripleJ Unearthed High Winner

24Aug2017

What a day this was! Well done Arno – we are all super proud of your achievement.

https://www.facebook.com/triplejunearthed/videos/1529772587084911/

TripleJ Unearthed High

09Aug2017

A huge congratulations to Y12 student Arnold Nyamadzawo, on being selected as WA’s only finalist in the TripleJ Unearthed High competition.

Performing under the moniker Arno Faraji, he caught the judges’ eye with his ‘keen, future-leaning productions… matched by whipsmart raps and a delivery oozing charisma”.

Good luck Arno!

Annual Report 2016

05May2017

We are very happy to be able to release our 2016 Annual Report to our community.  This document provides an overview of our work last year and the outstanding student successes.

2016 Annual Report

Auslan At Shenton College

09Sep2016

Throughout Term 3, our Year 8 Auslan students worked hard on creatively translating texts into Auslan. Students were required to translate, rehearse, film, edit, and add captions, leading to the production of some excellent music videos.

Since the introduction of Auslan to our curriculum in 2014, the program has expanded dramatically, quickly becoming the most subscribed course in the school.

Leanne Potter, Principal of the Shenton Deaf Education Centre said,

One of the benefits is you don’t have to go to France or China to speak the language you’re learning, you can do it at the canteen or in class.

Available to both hearing and deaf students, our Auslan course enables students to communicate in ways they never thought possible, an opportunity Dr. Karen Bontempo, Curriculum leader and Auslan teacher at Shenton is quick to point out.

Using a visual language… you actually have the capacity to think visually and spatially. [Students] can communicate with someone who only speaks Hungarian, in a way that if you were only depending on spoken language, you wouldn’t be able to manage.

With 100 hearing students learning Auslan, Shenton College deaf students have a large peer network available to them with signing abilities, further fulfilling our vision of an inclusive schooling environment.

Congratulations to all our Year 8 Auslan students on their inspiring creative translation works. It was a tough decision with such excellent work handed in but we picked out Bea and Erin for their outstanding creative translation of Sam Smith’s song, I’m Not The Only One, featured below and on our homepage.