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Year 7 Exeat Week
A couple of weeks ago, our Year 7 students ventured off on their first ever Braemar College Exeat Week. They spent the whole week in Anglesea completing a number of different exciting activities and games, split across two campsites: Araluen…
Wild Action Zoo visits Braemar
As a springboard into their Science topic of Animal Adaptations, our Year 6 students had the opportunity to spend eighty minutes with some very special guests last Thursday, 12 October. The team from Wild Action Zoo came to Braemar, bringing…
Basketball Skills Clinic, Make A Difference Challenge
Last month, our Year 5 students were treated to a special guest visitor. Former NBL star player and coach, Warrick Giddey, came to the College and ran a two-hour basketball skills clinic.
The clinic was the result of an inspiring idea by a group…
Woodend Community Boomerang Bags, Community Initiative
One of our Middle School teachers, Mrs Juanita Sinclair has recently started a collaboration with Woodend Community Bags in an effort to make Woodend plastic-free in 2018.
The initiative sees bags made from donated, recycled materials (including…
Year 6 Maths Games Day
Earlier this month, two teams of four Year 6 students competed in a Maths Games Day at Lumen Christi Primary School.
The day started with a warm-up game involving knowledge of factors and multiples before the official games began at 10am. The…
Scienceworks with our Year 5s
Last month, our Year 5s visited Scienceworks in Spotswood to support their current Science unit where they are learning about the Solar System. The students participated in the Earth, Moon and Sun Show and visited the Planetarium.
Year 8s finish in top ten in National Spelling Competition!
Our Middle School students recently competed in a national spelling competition through Literacy Planet, Word Mania. With over 3000 schools involved in the competition, we are proud to share that our Year 5 and Year 7 students placed in the…
Historic Fiction Author visits our Year 8s
On Wednesday morning, a group of Year 8 students were treated to a visit by published historic fiction author, Kirsty Manning.
Kirsty shared her advice on researching and writing fiction with the students of the Year 8 Encounter class. As part…
Year 5 & 6 Cobaw Basketball
This week, on Tuesday 1 August, seventeen enthusiastic Year 5 and 6 students headed off to Boardman Stadium, Sunbury, to represent Braemar College in the Cobaw Basketball competition. Braemar was represented by a girls and a boys team, who were…