MOVING ON UP DAY Miss Kate Carroll | Middle Leader Wellbeing & Junior Teacher On Wednesday 14 October, Year 6 students from MMCC and a number of other schools participated in the annual Moving On Up Day. The purpose of the day is to allow Year 6 students to experience being a high schooler for the day. Beginning the day, students who are not currently enrolled at MMCC had an opportunity to experience Science and Design Technology. Students performed experiments in the purpose built Science Laboratories, focusing on electrical circuits. They continued to demonstrate their design skills to investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, evaluating their impact. Throughout these two sessions, students began to develop relationships with each other through a number of group activities. Beginning at morning tea, the current Year 6 students joined the new students and
participated in a range of activities. These activities included an Amazing Race around the Senior School, organisation for high school, team building and Mary MacKillop trivia. All of the activities were designed to enable students to be more confident about the transition to Senior School, whilst encouraging relationship building. The day concluded with more team building activities, specifically focussed on relationship building amongst the students. As a P-12 College, we have a unique opportunity to provide all of our current and any new students with purposeful activities that allow them to be successful when they enter Senior School. Throughout the day, a number of students commented on how much fun they were having, whilst also learning about MMCC.
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