Gunnedah Public School students have enjoyed cooking and a multi-sport day, and Quirindi High School's students have once again been super busy with numerous events.
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Gunnedah Public School
Students rostered on for canteen days at Gunnedah Public School love helping out with cooking.
This week, Nate Yager, Mervyn Adams and Kayla Fernley cooked quiches with vegetables from the school's gardens and eggs from the school's chickens.
The entire school also had the chance to participate in a multi-sports day on Monday. They learnt a variety of skills and played modified games of touch football, AFL, rugby league, and rugby union.
This week's principal award went to Chase Hubbard for being safe, respectful and responsible. In particular, Chase also received the award for showing brilliant sportsmanship at all times.
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Quirindi High School
The students at Quirindi High School (QHS) have once again had another packed week.
Debating
The school's year 7 and 8 debating team A, comprising Paige Sevil, Bella Pollard, Lily Stewart and Keenan Davis, were successful in their debate against students Kirrily Johnson, Caitlyn Coutts-Smith, Miranda Davis and Mackenzie Jones from Wee Waa High School on Monday.
The topic was 'that we should ban the sale of tobacco in Australia,' which saw Quirindi high as the negative.
"Our students did well to win with a difficult topic to debate in this current climate," head teacher english and debate coach Mrs Stenner said.
"Adjudicator, Mr Lewis, said it was a close debate, with QHS awarded high points for strong rebuttal, a definite structure of the debate and raising more arguments."
A few days later, on Thursday, the A team versed the Quirindi high's B team in another debate.
A team was the affirmative and B team was the negative for the topic that commercial TV stations should be required to show more Australian content.
B team took the win, in what was a very close and intense debate between two fabulous teams.
It was a very close debate. Our speakers were of a very high standard and we are exceptionally proud of all our students, said teacher and debate coach Miss Stock.
National Science Competition
QHS students Josie Green, Grace Cowan and Tomas Boorer underwent a three-hour National Science Competition on Thursday.
The trio, who placed first in a former round of state level competition hosted at Quirindi high, are undertaking the finals of the NSW Schools Titration Competition.
"The competition is well aligned with the new chemistry syllabus and students today are performing even more difficult acid-base titrations than the state round," Mr Roberts said.
Titration is the slow addition of one solution of a known concentration (called a titrant) to a known volume of another solution of unknown concentration until the reaction reaches neutralization, which is often indicated by a colour change.
Food on Trend
QHS students offered a range of tasty options for lunch recently as part of their 'Food on Trend' studies.
The school's Trade Training Centre was a popular destination for students and teachers alike when participants purchased their choice of wedges, nachos, sushi, tacos, chicken bites or spiders.
