Science and Engineering Challenge 

17 students from years 9 and 10 set off on Wednesday morning for USQ Toowoomba to take part in this year’s Science and Engineering Challenge.

Assumption College was one of 8 schools taking part on the second out of three days of competition.

Each school was to enter at least two students in each of the 8 different challenges undertaken during the day. These challenges ranged from building vehicles, bridges, and artificial hands, to coding communication systems.

By lunch time, despite everyone having a good time, we found ourselves in a disappointing 6th place. Undeterred, the students polished off their wraps and fruit picnic and launched back into action with new purpose!

Whilst six of the ACW groups applied themselves to different tasks in the morning and afternoon sessions, two of our pairs had chosen longer projects, on which they would spend the entire day.
Ashtontae Ross and Bridgette Harland tackled the flat pack furniture design, building a table and chair out of cardboard and straws strong enough to support a 1kg weight. So successful was their design, that it won overall for the day!

As if this wasn’t enough success for one day, Kayleigh Waugh and Cortney Carniel’s bridge was the last to be tested in the big finale, infront of hundreds of students attending from schools all over southern Queensland. ‘Testing’ involved driving a small train over the bridge, with ever increasing weights attached. Not one team had managed to carry all five ‘ingot’ weights across all afternoon. Kayleigh and Cortney’s bridge survived the first four runs unscathed whilst all the other teams took the opportunity to turn their bridges upside down in order to prevent collapse, Kayleigh and Corntey’s bridge stood its ground without even flinching. The final run though was The dreaded Super Ingot! The rhythmic clapping started, the countdown commenced, Corntey released the heavily laden train down the ramp annnnnnd IT MADE IT ACROSS! The crowd went wild! Another challenge won by Team ACW!

Now came time for the final tally up, the usual reverse order count down was progressing well, yet we never dared to believe we could actual turn it around. Fifth place, fourth place, third place were given out but no mention of our band of mini-engineers, we had everything crossed.....’Second place’.... ‘Our Lady......’ .We couldn’t hear the rest of the name because our team were too noisy! Rightly so WE’D JUST WON! You Beauties!’

Needless to say Mr O’Brien was true to his word and shouted the team Frozen Coke Slushies from Maccas once we got back to Warwick. Thoroughly well deserved, after a really fun day out. Next year we’ll be defending our title!

Open Day 

It Takes A Spark

On Thursday May 9th, an eager group of 28 Assumption girls and 3 teachers boarded an early bus for a trip to St Saviours College Toowoomba for their inaugural ‘It Takes a Spark’ Educational conference.  This conference was designed to bring together "Girls and their Teachers" to connect with inspiring female industry role models, share their current school based activities and projects using an authentic sharing and experiential model, create networks of teachers and student teams, and solve social justice design challenges.  We had the opportunity to experience and learn about a variety of technologies throughout the day including 3D design & printing, Virtual Reality in the Classroom, Astronomy, and more.  Assumption College is proud to offer all students opportunities in this exciting area of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art & maths) and loved seeing the enthusiasm of the girls towards their learning on this day.

School Improvement Survey 

This year our school will be participating in a School Review and Improvement Survey managed by Research Australia Development and Innovation Institute (RADII). As well as school staff and students from Years 5 - 12, all parents are invited to participate in the survey. The survey provides valuable feedback for the future directions of our school. 

It would be appreciated if parents could update their contact details prior to the 24 June 2019. This will ensure delivery to the correct parent email addresses is available. 

On Monday the 29th July 2019, RADII will send all parents a personalized invitation to complete the survey online. If both parents email addresses are on file at the school, the invitation will be sent to both parents. However, the survey will close once the first person has completed it. If you do not wish to complete the survey simply delete it. 

The survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. You can complete the survey from anywhere you have access to the internet. The survey will close on Sunday, 11 August 2019 for parents. 

We encourage you to be very honest in your responses to the surveys. All responses go directly to RADII so they are confidential and anonymous. When the surveys are completed, and responses aggregated by RADII, overall data is sent to us so that we can then share the findings with you. 

Mental Health Workshop