It has been another busy few weeks around the farm!
Years 7 and 8 MT technology have harvested their veggies
Year 9 Agriculture have been to the south coast steer comp with their four steers and also compared and consumed their meat birds. St Greg’s homegrown were much larger and tastier!
Year 9 Agriculture have been as a part of their course have training and preparing 4 steers for the competition at South Coast. They then got the chance to see how their steers competed against 12 other schools. Amazingly all steers received ribbons for their class! We had 3 seconds and 1 fourth.
The second part of the Year 9 project was to write a report on the progression of their steers along with a market specifications and inputs and outputs. Two representatives then had to present the report to a panel of judges. Mitchell Sewell and Justin Susunjara did amazingly and got a bronze medal!
Our students also had the chance to compete in the junior judging and parading events with the following results being achieved:
- Thomas Anderson – Overall Champion Junior Judge and Senior Champion Parader
- Jayden Susunjara – Second senior junior judge and second senior parader
- Vince Vaccaro – 3rd in the second heat of Intermediate parader
- Vincent Pisciuneri – 2nd in the 3rd heat of Intermediate parader and 3rd in the final.
- William Hackett - 1st in the 2nd heat of Intermediate parader and 2nd in the final.
- Mark Vaccaro – 3rd in the 2nd heat of junior parader
- Zane Weston – 3rd in the 1st heat of junior parader
- Mitchell Sewell – 2nd place in the 1st heat of junior parader and 5th in the final
- Max Gorey – 1st in the 1st heat of junior parader and then named junior champion. Also 1st in the junior category of junior judging
- Massimo Pisciuneri – 1st in the 1st heat of junior parader and then 4th in the final
Other students who were involved in the show who should be commended include: Jacob Magro, Giles Consunji, Lleon Mcleon, Thomas Scott Glassock, George Smith, Blair Macdonald, Liam Gallagher, Alex Gorey and Angus Pursehouse.
Year 10 Agriculture have started their feed trial with the sheep. If you are interested in purchasing a side of lamb towards the end of term, please contact the agriculture staff.
Miss Hayley Mahoney
Leader of Learning - Agriculture