GATE Activity 2010

On the 24th of June 2010 the 2011 GATE students came for an activity day. We started off the day with a short assembly to inform parents and students about the GATE program. We then broke off into groups for a tour of the school with the current year 8 GATE students as tour guides. We were hopefully very informative whilst on the tour!

The year 7's then separated into two groups to have a taste of Italian and Chinese. The Italian activities included ordering their own food using Italian dialect. They also got to try some coffee, make their own short movie, research about Italy on the MacBooks and the year 8's versed the year 7's at singing "Volare". Of course the year 8's were the better of the two.

The year seven's made dumpling's with Mao Lao Shi, which I am pretty sure they had fun doing. They also sang many songs in Chinese with Xie Lao Shi, and made a traditional Chinese toy, called a 'jian zi'. They had great fun playing lots of games using the 'jian zi' and so did all of the year eight GATE students.

We also had two lunch breaks along the way with some delicious food from the D'Cafe. We would like to give special thanks to Mr Millimaci, Mrs Petale, Mrs Chong and Mr Cheah for organising this special event and we all can't wait for these students to start at Mount Lawley.

By Samantha Bain & Jayde Wilson