Games, cooking part of the fun

By Nayth Andrejic, Year 7, St Augustine’s College

LAST week the Year 7 boys took part in our annual Activities Week while boys from Years 8, 10 and 11 were on their school camps and retreats.

The activities the boys took part in were dot painting, silent reading, touch-typing, computer-coding and cooking.

In addition to these activities we also took part in Wednesday’s inter-house sports carnival.

We can never escape schoolwork so we still did maths, English, history, science and drama sessions over the course of the week.

We also had some presentations like “The Natural Fertility” talk, the adopt-a-cop talk and the Lifeline talk.

The boys all learned very important information in each of these different presentations.

On Tuesday we had a natural fertility talk.

The host was a man named John.

He was hilarious and my class had a jolly good time with John.

The next day we had the adopt-a-cop talk about cybersafety with Sargent De Lai and a couple of other police officers, but we were most excited for the sports carnival ahead of us.

We all had to pick a sport out of soccer, basketball and AFL.

I picked soccer but sadly I was injured so I had to be the coach for my house.

In the end my house, Phelan, came last losing to yellow house Heavey, in the third and fourth playoff.

The finals were won by red house Walter, defeating the blue house Reginald 6-4.

The next day we had a Lifeline talk with our college counsellor Brother Roger.

After that my class did dot painting and touch-typing.

Ending the day we had combat coding.

For Friday, we had another Lifeline talk with Br Roger.

After the talk we went with HAVING A BALL: St Augustine's College Year 7 boys playing basketball. Ms Azzopardi to do drama games.

We played zoom, murder and bus stop.

Zoom was a game where we had to pass energy and say “zoom”.

Some more rules of the game were where we could Pow (block the energy so the person passes the energy the other way), Ping (where we could skip a person), Zap (where you pass the energy

across the room) and Electrical failure (where you went on the ground and writhed around and the last person to stand up was out).

After all the fun games we did some cooking.

We cooked meat lovers’ pizza. It was beautiful. Ending the day we had coding and typing.

Special thanks to all the teachers who organised this week and the sports day and very big thanks to Year 7 coordinator Mr Aaron Hume.