Non Duke of Edinburgh   For the year 10 non-duke of Edinburgh program, a large range of fellow students and I took part in a 5-day camp across the coast of Wollongong and Kiama. With Rain Jackets equipped, and the weather against us, year 10 would be handed over to the friendly smiles of the Somerset staff. Despite the wet start, and a couple postponed events, each group would use the first day as a time for bonding, laughing as they ran across the beach, drenched from head to toe. Year 10 enjoyed the flexible style of the camp, allowing each student to push themselves at their own pace. The hikes became less of getting...

Introduction  To assist students through year 11 and prepare them for the challenges that are faced in year 12, William Clarke offers these students to join the ‘Community Mentorship Breakfast Program’. As the name suggests, it’s a mentorship program featuring members of the community as the mentors with an added bonus of breakfast. These mentors could be parents of students at the school, friends of school staff or the staff themselves, or anyone remotely connected to the college. After term 3 when the year 11 students move up to become year 12, the mentees and mentors got to present their experience of the program to the other...

When things start to go wrong in football, they go wrong very fast. Just ask fellow Aussie, manager Ange Postecoglou. In May this year, he was glorified for breaking Tottenham’s 17-year trophy curse. 2 weeks later, he was sacked. Then in September, he got appointed at Nottingham Forest, and in the 8 games that he was in charge, his team didn’t win a single game. Following that 8th loss, he was told only 17 minutes after the final whistle that he was sacked. One minute, he’s being praised, the next he’s being criticised, and headlines, social media posts, and fans don’t sugarcoat any of it – especially in England. Ange had to cop the...

“24 Life Changing Hot Girl Habits To TRANSFORM Yourself in 2025.”  “I don’t care if you don’t like me, you don’t even like yourself”  “How to detach.”  “How to be his dream girl.”  “Manifest the love you deserve.”   “How to analyse people & see through their masks”   “How to become unforgettable.”   I believe it is totally reasonable to state that we are living in a period where males with mics and their hostile philosophy have almost fully taken over our most mainstream, accessible self-help, and women have felt a neoteric sense of urgency in fighting for those spots....

DISCLAIMER: Please do not take this writing as an all-encompassing representation of certain cultures. Everyone’s experiences are different. This is not a factual piece but a personal experience.   Growing up, love in my family was unspoken. Unspoken rules, actions, judgement, and expectation. There was a cultural backbone that held everything together-blood is thicker than water, always pour water for elders first, don’t start eating until grandma and granddad do first.   Food was the way we connected. At the dinner table, it was a place of harmony, laughter, and the only time my family met up other than at weddings or funerals....

Over the past decades, the Western world has witnessed the integration of Eastern culture into our society right before our eyes. The rich traditions, innovative ideas, and vibrant pop culture of the Eastern world have become increasingly influential in the West. Whether it's food, fashion, music or wellness, Western countries are embracing Eastern culture like never before. It's hard to walk through any shopping centre without seeing cuisine from the Eastern world, whether it's sushi bars, boba tea or ramen restaurants. Eastern cuisine has become a large part of the Western world through decades of hard work. Asian and Middle Eastern...

Week 2 of Term 4, and We Are is just getting started for another year, but we could do with one more thing... YOU.  Are you bursting with opinions? Love writing about sport, politics, fashion, culture, or something completely out of the box? Got design skills? A passion for storytelling? A voice that deserves to be heard?  We Are is WCC’s bold student media platform, and we're here to amplify pretty much every voice, every perspective and every idea. Whether you're a seasoned writer or have never put pen to paper before, We Are welcomes you. No experience needed. No pressure. All we need is your ideas and your passion. Even if...

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been at this school; you’ve probably noticed a big problem when trying to move around campus from one place to another. It’s no secret that Willy C traffic makes it very difficult to get to lunch, and with the current construction happening it’s only been getting worse.  So, I decided that I need to create a detailed traffic report, so students can know the best times to avoid these massive herds. But I can’t write a report if I don’t have any data, for this I call you dear we are reader.  I’ve drafted a template table and need students to document the time and date...

FOR CONTEXT and in the Interests of Transparency, Please Note: This is not an objective report. I am a young biracial woman of European (Greek) and South Asian (Indian) descent. I have a foot in two worlds and two cultures. So, I express unequivocally that I can’t capture or speak on behalf of every South Asian person’s experience, but I wanted to capture patterns I am bearing witness to again and again. This is an exploration and a critique based on my lived experience, a reaction to something that’s only getting worse. *** There’s a simple, ugly pattern: when politics turns fearful, it finds a target. Over the last few years immigration...