On Wednesday the 7th August, ten Assumption College students participated in the Year 7/8 Mathematics Quiz at Warwick State High School. It was a very exciting quiz which had some very difficult questions for the students to answer.

The teams were:

Team 1: Alexander Newley, Thomas Ryan and Gabriella Kerlin.

Team 2: Keely Byrne, Kathryn Venz and Xavier Byrne.

Team 3: Alexis Casey, Tasmyn Walters, Ewan Willett and Amity Willett.

It was a fun afternoon and the students represented the school with distinction.

In one section, the students had to answer 12 questions in 2 minutes with no calculators or working paper. Here is one of those questions: “What is the obtuse angle formed by the hands of an analogue clock when the time is 12.30?”

That certainly gets the mind racing.

Team 2 won through to the next round of the competition which is to be held at Centenary Heights State School in Toowoomba. Congratulations Team 2! Our teams all performed credibly and enjoyed the night out competing against other students from many different schools across the Darling Downs.

Debating

Throughout Semester One, Assumption was proud to support several of our College Debating teams as they travelled to Toowoomba every fortnight to compete in the QDU Secondary Schools’ Debating Competition. In particular, our Grade 8 team consisting of Erin Walsh, Tasmyn Walters, Keely Byrne and Laura Scheiwe competed admirably in multiple rounds of both long and short prep debates and consistently achieved excellent feedback from the adjudicators.

The girls progressed through to the semi-finals, unfortunately being narrowly defeated by a very polished Downlands College team. The girls represented the College proudly in every round, with impeccable presentation and incredible efforts to rehearse entertaining and well-researched debates providing informed stances on a variety of complex topics. These girls would not have enjoyed the season of success they did without the ongoing and complete support of Academic Leader, Taylah Hoffman who worked tirelessly to support the girls each week as their coach.

I congratulate all of these young women for the polished and respectful manner in which they have represented Assumption and I look forward to seeing them in action again next season to hopefully take home the championship!

    

     

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