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Each year, the Australian Maths Trust (AMT) runs competitions to inspire, extend, and recognise mathematical understanding for hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary students in Australia and around the world.
The Australian Mathematics Competition, is a 75-minute maths competition for students in the Secondary division. AMC is Australia’s longest running, largest and best known maths competition and is held by invitation for students at BCC during Term 3.
Students in Year 7 participate in a maths competition against other schools across the state. Maths Games Days are a very effective vehicle for getting young people enthused about maths. Problem solving and mathematical games address the Victorian Curriculum.
In Term 3, teams of 4 students (maximum 2 teams per school), head to Melbourne to compete in areas of creativity, efficiency and contribution to group work. The participants are drawn from those who have a keen interest in mathematics and who can operate as a team. Lateral thinking wins the day.
The Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series (VCES) provides funded extension activities for high-ability students in Victorian government schools from Prep to Year 12. The aim of this program is to challenge high ability students in a fun, challenging, collaborative and competitive mathematics-based games day.
Teams of students from BCC, travel to other schools within our region and compete for a variety of prizes including individual prizes for creativity, contribution to group work, and lucky door prizes.
Tournament of Minds is a school competition where students work in teams to solve open ended problems. The competition involves students completing both a long term challenge and a spontaneous problem. Students from the Junior Campus who elect to participate, will spend four weeks in Term 3 preparing. Class time and lunch breaks are set aside for practice to occur. Students go to Federation Uni at Churchill and compete against other schools in out region.
The VHAP is an enrichment program that addresses the needs of high-ability students to engage with challenging material in either English of Mathematics and also to meet and exchange ideas with other students like themselves. Students from the Dudley and San Remo Campuses are selected by Student Excellence in the DET to participate in the VHAP. Each course runs for ten weeks and in the final week, students who have fulfilled the criteria for attendance and participation in their course are awarded a certificate.
Each year, Elevate Education delivers workshops to our Year 10, 11 and 12 students to help them improve their study techniques, increase motivation, build confidence and lift exam performance.
An invaluable Financial Teen Talk presented to the Year 11 VM cohort, where students participate in individual and group activities covering the full range of factors which concerns them regarding budgeting, finance and living in our current climate.
Each year the Local Learning and Employment Network (LLEN) host a Year 9 Careers Expo in the Wonthaggi Campus Stadium. Year 9 students participate in a careers conversation and are given the opportunity to speak with career professionals from a range of industries.
All students in Year 9 have the fantastic opportunity to explore their career pathways throughout Term 2 and 3. My Career Insights is a DET program for all Year 9 students in government secondary schools. This program will help your Year 9 child to:
Students complete a series of questionnaires and quizzes accessed through the Morrisby website. They then discuss their results with a Morrisby-trained Careers Consultant in a 30-minute interview. My Career Insights helps students discover, develop and drive their career planning.
During Term 2, Year 10 students participate in a week of Work Experience. Students, with assistance from their Boost Teacher and the Career Coordinator, make contact with potential employers and source their own Work Experience. This experience, conducted in Term 2 each year, is intended to give students insight into the workplace and provides students with the valuable opportunity to develop employability skills, explore possible career options, understand employer expectations and increase their self-understanding, maturity, independence and self-confidence.
A great way to celebrate everything Science and Technology in Term 3 each year. BCC students participate in experiments, excursions, quizzes and prizes, this years theme is Species Survival – More than just sustainability.
In May each year students at BCC celebrate Asia Week. Asia Week is organised to promote recognition of the importance of learning languages and cultures. During the week, students have many opportunities to experience those cultures through wide range of activities such as the daily quiz, origami (paper folding), calligraphy, movies, OBENTO (japanese packed lunch) and japanese performance.
This year in celebration of NAIDOC week, Ganga Giri a didgeridoo performer and First Nations Cultural Educator performed and educated staff and students at all of our campuses. Lunch time quizzes were part of the celebrations at our Dudley, San Remo and Wonthaggi Libraries.
