1979 School Magazine

E.E.A. A sixth former's opinion.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Personal Development, otherwise known as p.D., is not about the biological aspects of female development. Rather, it is about development as a person in ioday's world. Guest speakers, specialising in various ureas, are invited to come and talk lo relieve the ,strain' on Mrs. Lylgh Topics covered include marriage, pregnancy, child birth, abortion, and careers, with-pariicut"tar em_ phasis on the woman's place in the business world. p.D. is compulsory, but if you're prepared to voice your opi_ nions as well as listen, it can be a very interesting anO in_ formative experience. YEAST COOKERY Those of you who haven't heard of yeast cookery may also be ignorant of the function of ,,litile yeasties". (Miss Greet's discription of a small living bacteria which 9]9ur,1.. sugar and produces carbon di-oxide.) fhesO tiny Irttle.things are very sensitive and are quite 6asily killed. Jle ileq is that rhe producrion of COz (gas) mak'es tour oougn nse so that you get lovely light white loaves, -wholemeal loaves, cheese loaves, apiicot toaves, OaG loaves, rye bread, wheatmeal bread, malt bread,;r;;; buns, sweet bun loaves, Chelsea buns, French buns . . . yum.. .yum,yum. . yum, yum, yum... .. Thanks of course, go to Miss Greet and Miss Forster who both supervised and helped us. Ruth Wilson C.B.

I have enjoyed .all my E.E.A. units over the past two years. They have taught me many new activities; i greater consideration for other people; and how to mdte the most.of my time and shown me what tne scfrool frii to offer its students. But lwould like to thank Mrs. 9!g,,ru esp.ecially for her work in the cooking tor alt oc_ casrons-activity. lt has been a most rewardi-ng and en_ joyable five weeks. Mrs. Sharma goes to a geit deal of trouble to obtain the ingredients, 6rganize tie food anO supervise the kitchen. lt must someiimes be an unptea_ sant job but she does it each week and I would like to show my appreciation and say ,,thank you,'.

E.E.A. JUDO During the past two years in E.E.A., a self-defence course has been conducted, consisting of Judo, Karate, and Jujitsu, formerly known as JISHUKAN HONBU. Girls from grades 11 and 12 participated in a t0 week course, where they were introduced to various holds, in- cluding chokes and throws. At the end of the j0 weeks the girls were put through a grading, where an instruc- tor/examiner came up from Canberra to examine the girls on their exercises, self-defence and breakfalls. On successfully passing the grading, the girls were presented with a certificate of grade which entitles them to wear the level of belt achieved i.e. yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, or black. Hopefully the girls who participated in the course gained some knowledge and expertise in the various forms of Martial Arts that are available. Jenny O'Donnell On behalf of all Jenny's students over the past two years, I would like 1o thank her for allthe time and effort she has put into making them so successful. We feel that she deserves special recognition, owing to the fact that several of the classes Jenny has instructed, have been of a standard, higher than Canberra has seen in a long while and also the fact that Jenny herself has had the honour of being awarded a Provisional Black Belt for her own personal ability and her service to Jishukan Honbu. Jillian Morrissey

E.E"A" BATIK This E.E.A. activity involves learning the technique of dying and waxing materral to produce really surprising and exciting designs (at least that is the idea). ln the lst round the students rattle their imagination in order to make a design. ln the next rounds, the practical side to Batik is performed. lt is easy for students to be over- come with the initial excilement of actually applying wax to the material, and furthermore, putting the materral in many different-coloured dyes. Desires are not always fulfilled, but the suspense of the unknown is sometimes very difficult to withhold. Jacky Drynan, 12C.

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