Events

Rotary Hamilton Art Show 2022

The Arts/Technology Learning Area is proud to announce that we had 24 Young Artists’ representing Baimbridge College in the 2022 Rotary Hamilton Art Show at the Hamilton Performing Arts Centre. Our Visual Art students presented artworks in a variety of media, including; Acrylic paint, water paint, drawing, print media and mixed media. 

We are all so proud of the achievements of all participants.

The Barry & Stella Downs Young Artist Award, recipients.

1st. Indra Purcell. Climate Change. Acrylic paint on canvas.

2nd. Alicia Witcomb. Pensive Girl on Wall. Acrylic paint on canvas.

Highly commended. Ebony Mason. Cat. Pencil on paper.

Highly commended. Zoe Taylor. Two Portraits. Acrylic paint on canvas. (Sold)

Zoe Taylor. Blue Whimsical Portrait. (Sold)

Retreat Camp- by James Guthrig & Joey Lehmann

Late last term, all VCE and VCAL students were offered a retreat camp to build connections and friendships after an interrupted period due to Covid. On Wednesday, after a long bus trip, our teachers took our phones so we could build deeper connections with our peers. The moment we arrived at AngaHook Holiday Camp, we got started on activities such as Rock Climbing, The Giant Swing, and Frisbee Golf. After the rotation of activities we had a ‘trivia night’ which was heaps of fun. On Thursday, we embarked on our day which included Mountain biking and Canoeing. Personally, staying on the biking track was difficult, which led to many falls and close calls with trees. Canoeing (although done at many camps in the past) was a breath of fresh air and a fun experience for everyone. The day ended with some ping pong, twister, connect four, jenga, some loud music and a bonfire. An early morning wakeup started our Friday which consisted of team building exercises and a bus ride home. Team building was surprisingly entertaining with many classic moments of stupidity. Doing activities such as the “spiders web” or the “nitro crossing” that were designed for younger students, created an extra element of difficulty. On the way home we received our much missed phones and rested up for the weekend. Overall the retreat camp was much needed and enjoyed by all the students, friendships were made and connections were built upon. 

Year 11 Careers Camp- By Rylan and Will. 

On the 22nd of August, majority of the year 11 VCE students and a couple VCAL students went on a careers camp to various universities. We left early Monday morning on bus and arrived at Federation University, we met a past Baimbridge student who gave us a tour around the campus. We enjoyed covering all the different facilities available at Federation University. After staying for lunch we caught the train in to Southern Cross Station before walking to the Travel lodge. We found our way around the city on trams to a pizzeria. The next day we were learning the ropes of getting around Melbourne, arriving at Melbourne University. We had a tour around “small city” of Melbourne University by a senior student. Later that day we attended a presentation at RMIT where we climbed 11 stories of stairs to get a photo. In the afternoon we given free roam of Melbourne, where majority of explored Melbourne Central with the Lego shop being the highlight. In the evening we went to the Crown Casino, we took some lovely pictures of the Melbourne skyline. The next day we went to Geelong by train where we were given a tour of Deakin University which appealed to most students in the group. We then met up with the rest of the year 11 cohort and were on our way to Angahook Camp.

Snow Camp- By Ella Jackson & Max Wareham

Our 2022 snow trip started off with a long drive to falls creek, after we stopped to pick up all our snow gear we made our way to our accommodation, excited and ready for our first day up in the snow. We left for our first day to the snow ecstatic, the teachers told us that we would learn different skills that we didn’t think we would be capable of. We started the day off with a lesson. All spilt up into different groups.

 The first thing we were taught was how to turn and stop on the board down a small slope which was quite difficult to figure out at first for some people. Our instructor then took us to the first run to practice staying upright over a longer period of time, which many struggled with for the entire first lesson. We continued to practice until lunch. After everyone finished lunch, we were able to go off in small groups and go down the different runs.  One of the popular runs for everyone was call Dover’s Dream. During this time is where most of us found out how good Mr Macdonald, Mr Lynch and Mr Price were at snowboarding or skiing. After a long day out on the snow we made our way back down the mountain. Where we had some time to relax before dinner.

In the morning of our second day of snowboarding or skiing most of us were starting to feel the pain of the first day, but we were all ready to go up and start another day off with a lesson. We started the lesson with some warm-up runs to show that we got the hang of staying up right and stopping. We went down Dover’s Dream where our instructor showed us how to control the board by showing us toe side turns and stops and traversing which is when you go horizontally across the run instead of going straight down. We were also taught how to get on and off the chairlift (which is much scarier than you think). We practiced those turns until lunch. After lunch we got to go off in groups again. Everyone started going down bigger runs and were getting more confident with the skills we had learnt in our lessons. After a tiring day out, it was time to head back to the chalet. 

On the third day we had to wake up bright and early to back all our gear up before we left to have our final lessons and free time before the long drive back. In our lessons we reworked our groups so those who had become more advanced could go on more complex runs instead of being stuck on the easy runs. Some of the groups went down some of the blue runs (for example Highway 83 and Rapunzel) which were more difficult than Dover’s Dream. We practiced toe side traversing which was much more difficult than heel side traversing which allowed us to turn both directions. To finish our final lesson off we did one more run-down drovers dream and to finish it off we were taught how to do full spins. We went off by for some free skiing/board for the last time, enjoying every minute before we had to leave.  It was at time that we realised what the teachers had said earlier in the camp about learning to do things that we didn’t think we could had become apparent. We had all picked up skills, whether it was our first time at the snow or hundredth. We all had a fantastic time and wish we will be able to have another experience like this. I recommend this camp to all other student and thankyou to everyone who made it possible.