Program Highlights
Prep to Year 2 Soiree
The Patsy Venn Centre was buzzing with excitement recently as 35 students eagerly awaited their chance to perform on stage at the Prep to Year 2 Soiree. The performers showed great confidence as they presented their items and delighted in hearing their peers.
A variety of musical instruments were played, ranging from violin, voice, piano and speech and drama. Every chair was filled with families, friends and staff and we thank everyone who attended for offering their continued support and encouragement to the young performers.
Our appreciation is extended to Ella Morris for her announcements and Phoebe Yue for accompanying on the piano.
Fiona Radford, Music Teacher
Junior School Languages
Co-curricular Activities
French Skits
French Skits is a fun and enjoyable way to learn French for Years 3 to 6. It is held every Monday lunch time by Madame Howlett or Madame Brown. It is an extended learning program which helps students learn French. During the Club, they do fun activities such as making French words and letters using their bodies to create different shapes. This term they have started to work on the play, 'The Three Little Pigs' in French. This Club involves a lot of team work and is enjoyed by all students.
French Story Time
Every Tuesday lunch time Madame Dickens or Mademoiselle Hancock runs French Story Time for Prep to Year 2 students in the Library. It is an optional club that is a fun and easy way to learn French for the younger students. During French Story Time, Madame Dickens or Madame Hancock will read an exciting and colourful French story, which will then be discussed with students so that they understand what is happening in the story and learn some new French words. They also talk about the pictures and do some actions. This is followed by completing a colouring sheet. Students can hang their completed work in the Junior library or take it and finish it at home. This is a fun club that heaps of students enjoy and look forward to every week!
Natasha Tsirelas, Junior School Languages Leader
Year 7 Toy Time
Last week, Year 7 students took part in the Toy Time Showcase. As part of the K-STEM initiative, students worked in groups to build a toy that helped teach a scientific concept to 10-year-old children. They carried out market research, using the skills they had developed in the statistics unit in mathematics to analyse and display their data, and used this information to design an educational toy that would appeal to children.
Years 3 and 4 students attended the Showcase to help judge the toys. They were each given five tokens which they had to give to their favourite toys.
The Kid’s Choice Award went to ‘Fish the Face’ – Olivia Kirkham, Ella Roper, Yeyoung Song, and Alex Beckerman. The Industry Award went to Nick Brooks, Kyle Patros and Andrew Moore for ‘Magnetic Hoverboards’.
Not only did the project allow the students to develop their Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths skills, it was also a key part of their character education. Resilience, team work, creativity and problem solving were just some of the traits that the students developed.
The project was a huge success and all students should be congratulated for their hard work. A massive thank you to Jenny from Education Station who helped with the judging and provided prizes, and all the teachers who worked on the project, in particular Ms Locco, Ms McDonald, Ms Thomas, Mrs Waddington, Mrs Goldenberg, Mr Mahoney and Mr Alexander.
Alice James, Academic Dean of Science
Tech Girls Super Heroes
We are very excited about two groups of girls from Years 8 and 10 entering this year's Tech Girls are Superheroes competition. The theme of the competition for 2016 is: Solve a Problem in Your Local Community: Technology for Social Good.
Last week, we welcomed two representatives from Monash University to Kilvington who conducted a masterclass on building an App. Both teams will also have a mentor from industry to support them during the development phase through to submission of their App and associated materials.
We'll keep you updated on their progress!
TEARing up Inequality
Ethics in Leadership students were thrilled to welcome Ashlee and Tilly from TEAR (Transformation, Empowerment, Advocacy and Relief) Australia. Our guests from TEAR shared some confronting information about inequality in our world today. They got students involved in busy simulation activity that helped students feel the effects of missing out on basic resources such as food, healthcare and education. The session certainly opened our eyes to how much we have to be grateful for as we continue to go deeper into our school value of ‘gratitude’.
Kathleen Vergers, Ethics in Leadership Teacher