Photos & Top Stories 2011
A Cut Above The Rest - Rosie Hawkins in the Canberra times.
From an old hessian sack to a dress to an art installation - Year 12 Dickson College student Rosie Hawkins has engineered an amazing transformation. (excerpt from the Canberra Times, 14/12/2011)
read the rest of the story here.
Tyson Aims for the AFL Rookie Draft
Dickson Student Tyson Carracher was featured in a Canberra Times article discussing his outlook in the AFL Rooke draft.
Dickson Students, Louis and Mitchell, featured in Canberra Times article.
Read the full article here.
Pizza Oven
The latest contribution by DC students in the Brick ‘n’ Block program The pizza oven is almost ready - with thanks to Al, building & construction students and the Brick n Block program.
Japan Tour
Our intrepid Japan tourers ready to depart for two weeks in Japan – visiting Osaka, Nara University and Tokyo.
Cherry Blossom Picnic
Japanese students enjoy a cherry blossom picnic in the lead up to their tour of Japan.
Dance Performance
DC Dance students performing their Dance Fest routine at a DC student assembly.
Dickson College now offers Tertiary Dance.
TEDxCanberra
DC students present at TEDxCanberra about their UAV: www.tedxcanberra.org
Psychology tour of Melbourne
Psychology students travelled to Melbourne – visiting universities and mental health support teams as well as enjoying a musical
Dance Fest 2011
Congratulations to DC Dance Fest students! Our group performed at the Canberra Theatre and it was excellent. The group examined the form and function of messages as an essential part of communication.
Dickson Wetlands Community Involvement
The team at the Environment ACT Urban Waterways program are working with local schools to design tiles for the inner-north wetlands.
Ceramics students from Dickson College have created a tile mosaic which will be installed at the Dickson wetland. Likewise, Year 6 students from our friends at Majura Primary School are working with the Urban Waterways Coordinator to create a mosaic full of wetland symbols.
Beth Mitchell, the Principal of Dickson College, was featured on ABC Radio's Canberra Conversations.
Beth Mitchell is the lumberjack turned garbo then English teacher who has transformed the school into one that lives up to its motto: "Excellence, opportunity, community," as she told Alex Sloan during the 666 ABC Canberra Conversations Hour.
Read the whole story and listen to the Podcast here.
Arts Exhibition
The 2011 DC Arts Exhibition was another resounding success, with Tim Bonyhady, art historian and Director of the Centre for Climate Law and Policy at the Australian National University opening the exhibition. Our arts community mentor, Joan Costanzo was also on hand to award the Exhibition prize for this piece.
Over $1100 raised in 1 hour.
Congratulations to the Dickson College Psychology students who raised $1144 during a team fund raising session spread across 3 locations, Civic, Dickson and the ANU, last week. The fundraising was for AFFIRM, who do research into mental health issues for young people.
New Zealand Ski Trip
DC students travel to New Zealand for skiing and snowboarding as part of Outdoor Education.
Printmaking at DC and Megalo Print Studio
Paper printmaking at DC - at the beginning of term DC printmaking students toured Megalo Print Studio and enjoyed a demonstration on Etching.
DC students will access Megalo facilities during term 4 to complete their major works.
Dickson College featured in The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times recently ran a story regarding the terrific results our students are getting, the new programs the school is delivering and the general positve changes underway at our great school.
Here's a link to the full story.
Global Challenges Conference – ANU and DC collaboration
Global Relations and Geography students participated in a conference at the ANU about global challenges. Will Steffen, Climate Commissioner, and Major General Michael Jeffery delivered keynote addresses to students in years 11 and 12.
We also heard from ANU academics, Kent Anderson and Janette Lindsay as well as current ANU PHD students and recently graduated DC students who are now studying at the ANU.
Congratulations to Cast and Crew of DC Production, "6 Characters in Search of an Author".
Pictured is the College's Drama Teacher, Chris Zuber, and the cast of the latest college production, 6 Characters in Search of an Author.
This was a challenging piece for the students but they pulled it off with great success and the audience was treated to an engaging piece of theatre.
Dickson College: Green but Going Greener
Two more water tanks have been installed in areas designed to reduce the need for potable water. This brings our total number of tanks to 6 allowing the college to save many thousands of litres of clean drinking water.
Congratulations Willoughby Axelson
Congratulations to DC student Willoughby Axelson for being selected in the ACT Schoolboys rugby team that is taking part in the Australian Schools Championships in Brisbane in July.
Q&A at Dickson
ACT Sports Minister Andrew Barr, David Shillington from the Canberra Raiders, and Marianna Tolo from the Canberra Capitals were the college on 25 May talking to Legal, Business and Sports Studies students and staff in a great "Q&A" style session
Maths Day at ANU
5 Dickson College students went to the ANU Maths Day on Friday 27 May
Latin Excursion
18 students on a Latin excursion on 24 May to the ANU and Classics Museum
Student Performance at CTL
9 students performed at the Recognition of Service Awards at ACT DET Centre for Teaching and Learning on 23 May - it was a great performance!
Cross Dressing for the Red Cross
$331.40 raised at Cross Dress for Red Cross at Dickson College: for QLD Disaster Relief Appeal
Dickson IT meets the Uni's Excursion
23 IT students from Dickson college got to visit the Computing faculties at ANU and UC. they met with the lecturers and professors, ate tons of pizza and generally got some ideas about possible future study options.
Award Winning Teachers and Leaders
Dickson College Principal, Beth Mitchell, wins the ACT Public Education Award for Best Secondary Principal.
Beth won her award "for being a visionary and inspirational leader who provides outstanding instructional leadership and embodies the Dickson College values of excellence, opportunity and community"
Have a look at the Canberra Times article “Dickson College principal receives top grade” by Henrietta Cook.
Other award winners include Tom Greenwell who won the Australian Education Union Public Education Award for his commitment to public education through establishing Clio, a highly successful online history journal for students, and being active in forming Funding Real Equity in Education (FREE), a group of Australian teachers, parents and citizens who lobby for a fair deal for public education.
Dickson College UAV/Robotics Open Night
The Dickson College UAV (unmanned arial vehicle) program recently held an open night where they got to show off all of the cool planes and robots they've been building.
The UAV program has also been the conduit for even stronger links between the IT Faculty at Dickson College and the University of Canberra's IT Faculty.
This relationship has been formally ratified with the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding between the two schools. The signing took place during the Open Night.
Comedy and Satire
The Dickson College English faculty had the pleasure of inviting The Canberra Times political cartoonist David Pope (The 2010 Political Cartoonist of the Year), to present a talk to the Comedy and Satire class. David’s presentation was highly regarded by all students who found his humorous talk on the nature of political satire, cartooning and the newspaper industry to be eye opening. Students relished the opportunity to access the mind of one of Australia’s premier satirists in order to find out how political cartoons work and why they can be both brutal and funny. We were also privy to some of David’s more ‘edgy’ private collection. Towards the end of the seminar, David assisted students in formulating ideas and concepts for their major assessment pieces - his input was invaluable and much appreciated. Much fun was had by all!
Meet the Teacher Night 2011
Rob Emanuel and Lynne Bean gave a presentation on College Assessment and Reporting Practices at the Meet the Teacher Night 2011.
Here's a copy of their presentation.
Dickson College in the News
The Dickson College Community garden featured in an ABC News story on the 7th Feb 2011.
Here's a link to the full story on the ABC website.
From 2010
ACT Works Skills Poster Competition
Congratulations to graphic design student Alec Van Der Velde who won an ACT competition to design a work skills poster, which will be used throughout the ACT.
