Posts Tagged ‘North Lake Senior Campus’

Sustainability mural

An orientation day is meant to make us feel comfortable in a new environment or to bring us back  –gently – to school or work.  The Sustainability Mural project was perfect. Students watched a David Attenborough documentary, letting the words wash over them as they coloured using the limited palette of the ocean for a…

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Popular new additions

Two new vending machines are in place and working in the cafeteria. They are already proving very popular and they can get even better.  Students can make contact with the proprietor (via contact details on the machines) and make suggestions as to content/items.

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Community Health Nurse

Mel Rodrigues is our Community Health Nurse and provides advice and support to students about accessing health care and information on a range of matters including healthy eating and nutrition, sexual health or coping with illness, stress or unhappiness. You can find Mel in the Wellness Centre on Tuesdays.  

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We’re away in 2024

It was too hot for school but the new year started well at North Lake. At the welcome assembly Principal Gary Anderson and Student Services Manager Armanda Di Toro reminded students, new and old, that we are guided by our values of respect, care, empowerment and flexibility. There are some things that make North Lake…

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Exciting career ahead

Kane Brotherhood completed Year 12 at North Lake in 2021 and gained entry into the Metallurgical Engineering course at Curtin University. It has been an exciting time for Kane with his studies taking him to Malaysia this year to work directly with the government on sustainable development. He has received two scholarships, one with MRL…

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We remembered them

The newly formed Student Council played a major role in North Lake’s 2023 Anzac service. The service was respectful, informative and moving.

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Launching 2023 in style

The new year at North Lake Senior Campus began with a series of orientation activities to enable students to get to know each other and the campus. Student Wellness Coordinator Armanda Di Toro reminded students that North Lake is different – it’s small, it’s quiet and it’s calm (mostly). Principal Gary Anderson said the staff…

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Never give up on your dreams

When he arrived in Australia from Afghanistan late in 2011 Farshad Baboli felt that he knew nothing. “I didn’t know any letters of the alphabet and the only thing I knew about Australia was the Sydney Opera House,” he recalled. He spent a couple of weeks in the Intensive English Centre at North Lake Senior…

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The signs are everywhere

The Year 11 Foundation Career & Enterprise students participated in a mini-tour around the school investigating safety precautions and signage located inside classrooms and outside in shared locations. The students recorded each sign, identifying it according to the signage classification as either mandatory, prohibited, warning or safe condition.  Students also discussed any related PPE required…

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