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Learning News - 5 November 2021

In this week's Learning News, we celebrate the achievements of Year 12 upon their graduation, and explore what's happening in Year 10 Science and Year 9 Geography.

	4 Nov 2021
	School Newsletter

Congratulations, Year 12

Congratulations to our Year 12 2021 cohort. We had the opportunity to celebrate their achievements on Monday at the HSC Showcase Launch and Wednesday at the HSC Graduation and Awards Ceremony. It was so lovely to come together and acknowledge the grit and grace of this cohort, as Ms Ugonotti recognised in her Principal’s address at the graduation ceremony. We recognised the achievement of the whole cohort, but also celebrated the exemplary achievements of the following students:

The Teddy Coolican Cup for Generous Involvement in School Achievements	Sophie Earle
The Graham Family Award for Contribution to Social Justice	Molly Haymen
The Pat Taylor Award for Commitment to Loreto Normanhurst	Grace Gillies
Prix d’Honneur Award – recognising outstanding leadership	Grace Gillies
The Sister Deirdre Rofe Award for Growing Individuals and Communities	Ella Donlevy
The Sister Theodore Gillick Award for Contribution to the Faith Community of Loreto Normanhurst	Anne-Maree Swanson
The Mother Antoinette Hayden Shield for Service to Sport	Abby Feurtado
The Mother Evangeline Kendall Award for Contribution to the Creative Life of Loreto Normanhurst	Chanelle Kong
The Vincent Family Award	Jordyn Richards
The Ampol Best All-Rounder Award	Emily Stockwell

Josephine Lonergan Award

Eleanor Adlam
Breahna Akerboom
Elizabeth Bronk
Charlotte Cluff
Georgia Cluff
Kate Law-Whitting
Erin Longney
Chelsea Tran

Principal's Award for Academic Excellence in their studies and who are ranked in the top 10 students in the year:

Charlotte Cluff
Georgia Cluff
Sophie Earle
Anna Garnsey
Lily Hudson
Sally Kearins
Erin Longney
Tia Ranftl
Emily Soros
Emily Stockwell

Loreto Normanhurst Principal's Award for Academic Excellence in Year 12 - student who achieved the highest rank based on their HSC school assessments:

Sophie Earle

HSC Exams

We would like to wish the Year 12 students the best of luck for their HSC exams commencing on Monday. Please ask your daughter to refer to previous correspondence emailed to them providing detailed information. The rooming will be available on Canvas-Learning Office-Year 12 page on Monday. Please note the time for the first exam is 9:50am, with subsequent exams commencing at 9:25am.

Celebration of Learning

Year 10 Science

All science students have been enjoying being back in our labs in person.

Year 10 Science students have been busy making 'reebops.' They looked at the genotypes of the parents and determined the phenotype (features) of the parents. They then created a ‘reebop’ baby with a combination of alleles from each parent.

Year 10 also had a go at extracting the DNA from strawberries!

Year 9 Geography

Year 9 Elective Geography students created some powerful and well-researched resources during lockdown for the study of the topic Physical Geography and Climate Change. Please see samples from two of the students in a very timely exploration of impacts of climate change and the importance of climate justice.