Students taste ‘College life’ at Immersion Day

Talitha Tranent welcomes the incoming year 7 students.

On Wednesday November 9 Nambour State College welcomed over 60 students from a number of hinterland primary schools to their campus as part of their final Year 6 Young Pinnacle Immersion Day.

“The day provides our incoming Middle School students with the opportunity to form connections with students from other primary schools who will be joining them at NSC next year,” said Acting Junior Secondary Head of Department, Talitha Tranent. 

“The early transition program has also allowed them to become familiar with the senior school campus and key teachers and staff for 2023. 

“It is a wonderful introduction to the school and it makes for a smoother transition from primary to secondary school.”

Students engaged with an array of fun and exciting activities targeted at their passion area. Some of the activities ranged from being innovators in the kitchen, to investigative journalism, as change makers, and to being scholars running experiments in the lab.   

“The students were treated to a BBQ lunch and enjoyed live music performed by two of our amazing NACA students,” Ms Tranent said.

NSC offers a comprehensive range of educational offerings and experiences and the Young Pinnacle Immersion Day allowed students to innovate in the kitchen and then in the design room, working on a fashion proposal, the Athletes to play volleyball in the Thunderdome, Cultivators visited the farm and interacted with the animals while the Scholars completed science experiments in the lab. 

Creatives were shown new watercolour techniques and the Change Makers were investigative journalists who investigated the water and soil quality of a local river.

“It is always an extremely busy day but so rewarding for everyone involved and so important for our incoming students to get a little taste of life at NSC,” said Ms Tranent.