Legacy National Finals  – Second Place

Year 8 student, Elizabeth Moore, has achieved second place at the Legacy National Finals in Adelaide.  This is a huge win for Lizzie who is proving herself such a gifted orator both with prepared speeches and impromptus. A special thanks to Legacy for their wonderful support of our youth.

Katie Lester
Person-in-Charge of Public Speaking

Civics and Citizenship

Scotch Oakburn College’s ten Learner Attributes are skills that talk about the character of each student, forming the platform for our students to be the architects of their own learning.

Learning opportunities, such as last […]

World Peace Games in Action Once Again

Year 7Y students have extricated themselves from economic, social and environmental crises and the threat of imminent war during the World Peace Games last week! This program is a popular and highly engaging hands-on political simulation – experiential learning at its best.

Students learn to work together to gain a greater understanding of how to prevent a country from dangerous circumstances and achieve global prosperity without too much military intervention.

By the end of the week, 7Y students were exhausted but thrilled to be part of such chaos and creativity.

Special thanks to […]

Student Achievements

During the last week of Term Three, eight students represented Tasmania at the National Youth Touch Football Championships on the Sunshine Coast. Congratulations to Year 8 students Chloe Horsman, Macie Petterwood, Millie Sather, Chloe Waldron and Abigail Dracup, Year 7 student Poppy Beaumont and Year 6 students Sarah Horsman and Lucy Johnston on their selection.

Ali Foot
Head of Sport 

Le Cambriolage (The Heist)

On Tuesday, the Year 8 students of French were treated to a very special activity. The school hosted an escape game in French organised by the University of Melbourne.

For the first time, Le Cambriolage (the Heist) and its van are visiting Tasmania.

Students were challenged to find what was stolen and how, thanks to clues, codes and their ingenuous sense of deduction. It was a good opportunity for our students to showcase their vocabulary skills in an authentic context.

Each group of students had to go through a cleverly engineered suitcase full of hidden clues, traps,  decoys and […]