Happy 20th Birthday to Our ELC

The Kilvington ELC turned 20 years young this week.

To celebrate such a special day, the ELC children gathered in our specially decorated room to sing and eat especially made yummy cakes (by our lovely Kerrie Kelly in the Canteen).

We had some of our gorgeous parents join us and Mr Charlton and Mr Earle also joined the celebrations.

The highlight was surely the awesome balloons that we got to take home.

Happy birthday to us!

Sharon Donnellan, ELC Coordinator

Ethics in Leadership Students Visit the ELC

The Year 10 Sustainability Group, from the Ethics in Leadership class, took the opportunity to assist in teaching the ELC children about the importance of plants and trees. We were very impressed with their knowledge of the environment, one of them saying that: “when we breathe out, trees breathe in”. We all had a great time helping the children make their own pot plants and we were invited to come back every Monday to help them with their vegetable garden!

Tim Bayley, Year 10

We thoroughly enjoyed helping our ELC students plant their own plants. This was really fun and worked well in complimenting their unit on Sustainability. After we finished, the teachers asked us if we would like to help them with their own vegetable patch as well as spread awareness of the importance of sustaining our earth. We would love to!

Jacob White, Year 10

Live Music is Good for You Schools Festival

Recently, students from Kilvington performed at the 7th Annual Royal Melbourne Hospital Live Music Is Good for You Schools Festival, held at the hospital in Grattan Street, Parkville.

Students from the Arco Quartet and Flute Trio ensembles performed in the hospital atrium foyer and also outside a ward on the 1st floor.

Music holds an important role as a therapeutic service for the patients. Patients face many challenges and they welcome feelings of hope, strength, acceptance and relief that come from their experience of live music in the hospital. Music is an essential component of supporting the wellbeing of patients and people in general, a fact that can be forgotten in music education as students strive for their personal best and high achievement in exams, eisteddfod’s and a range of performances.

A nurse claimed that the Arco Quartet and Flute Trio could be heard not only throughout the entire first floor, but that their beautiful music drifted up the stairwell and was audible as far away as wards on the ninth floor.

We are grateful for the opportunity to contribute to people’s wellbeing by performing at the Festival. Our students acted on our motto of Non nobis sed omnibus - not for our own, but other’s good.

While the Encouragement Award our students received that day was a great achievement for them, the impact their music made on the hospital’s patients was an even greater one.

Sasha Stella, Academic Dean of Performing Arts

A Slice of Australian History

Last week, Year 4 students visited the Polly Woodside and Cook’s Cottage. The students were excited to learn about Captain Cook’s voyages, the First Fleet, life on board a ship, and living conditions in the 18th Century. The presenters at both venues were very engaging and the students thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Coming back to School on the bus, many a student described the excursion as the ‘best day ever’!

Catherine Thomas, Year 4 teacher

Languages Faculty – Year 7 Cultural Day

Cordon Bleu French Cooking Demonstration

The Year 7 languages day was really fun. I liked the French activity the best because we got to eat delicious food and see how it was made. It was really interesting to see how quickly the chef could make them and how good they looked even though they were made in such a short amount of time. I also learned about the company that the chef worked for and how many places the organisation was based. It was a very interesting experience.

Rosie Morrison, Year 7

We had an extremely talented chef come to visit us. He baked us delicious French cakes that looked so neat and well done and we all loved them! I really enjoyed watching him make them and listening as he told us the procedure. I thought it was amazing how fast he could make them. I learnt some really interesting facts about the chef and where he works. Overall it was a really good day.

Kymberley George, Year 7

Traditional Tea Ceremony

During our Year 7 Cultural Day we had the privilege to learn more about Japanese culture in a special day organised by our Language teachers and their invited guests. Ladies dressed in brightly coloured kimonos taught us the precise movements and ceremony of a traditional 'Japanese Tea Ceremony'. Our hosts later told us that the ceremony is an opportunity to ‘Clean the dust off the mind’. It was a very slow, peaceful experience and I was pleasantly surprised by how good the green tea tasted. We also had the chance to be a host to a friend and then their guest. I am really grateful to our teachers and to the ladies who shared this special part of their culture with us. It was a really good day.

Nick Brooks, Year 7

Student Achievements

Singing Star