The Hamilton and Alexandra College Newsletter

Library

- Kym Dempsey

House Chess

The annual House Chess competition for the Senior School took place this week.  Congratulations to students who stepped up to represent their House.  There were some extremely interesting games that kept the audience engaged.  Huge thanks to Mitchell Clode (IT Support) and the Library Committee members of Danile Su, Harry McDonald, Bailey Bottrall, Perry Maas-Geesteranus and Hiru Henakaralalage for setting up the stage and screen each day and allowing the audience to watch all four games at once on the big screen of the Simons Auditorium. The winning House will be announced at Assembly next week. Results of the rounds are below.

 

We have the opportunity to take students to the Second Chess Victoria Zonal Tournament in Warrnambool next Wednesday 8 May, starting at 9.30am and concluding at 2.30 pm.  Students play seven games with a time controller of 15 minutes for each player. Please see Mrs Dempsey if you are interested in attending this tournament.  Entries and travel details need to be organised by Monday 6 May.

 

Day 1 Results

 

Juniors

Berry (Sam Mecham) defeated Young (Georgia Kennedy)

Learmonth (Will Cameron) defeated Laidlaw (Jimmy Dyer)

 

Seniors

Learmonth (Hiru Henakaralalage) defeated Young (Charlie Maher)

Laidlaw (Lucas Barroso) drew Berry (Fingal Jackson)

 

Day 2 Results

 

Juniors

Learmonth (Will Cameron) forfeited to Berry (Sam Mecham)

Young (Sophie Hill) forfeited to Laidlaw (Freddie Milne)       

   

Senior 

Berry (Fingal Jackson) defeated Learmonth (Harry McDonald)

Laidlaw (Jacob Butcher) defeated Young (Charlie Maher)

 

Day 3 Results

Juniors

Learmonth (Will Cameron) drew Young (Georgia Kennedy)

Berry (Pip Mecham) defeated Laidlaw (Hamish Brown)

 

Senior 

Berry (Fingal Jackson) defeated Young (Adam Cameron). 

Learmonth (Hiru Henakaralalage) defeated Laidlaw (Jacob Butcher)                                  

Weaving

Reminder: Weaving is back on next week.  On Wednesday, Mrs Munro will show us how to use the large looms.  

 

Please bring your creations to work on or finish off.  Newcomers welcome, it’s not too late to start!

 

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

The Challenge has started – can you READ the number of books needed to complete the challenge?

  1. All students in the Junior School have been registered for the Challenge and grade teachers have the student log-in and passwords for student record books.  A letter will be sent home on Friday.
  2. The challenge is to read a certain number of books by September 6, as shown below. Students in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 can read books by themselves or with someone else.
  3. Students enter their reading onto the PRC website.
  4. Reading must be verified by the class teacher or the Challenge coordinator (Mrs Dempsey) to verify that the books registered online have been read.
  5. All information must be completed online by the date set by September 6, 2024

Number of books students should read to complete the Challenge:

Prep – year 2 

  • Number of books: 30
  • Number of books from the Challenge book list: 20 or more

Year 3 – year 6

  • Number of books: 15
  • Number of books from the Challenge book list: 10 or more

Students can read more books than the number set for the Challenge and keep adding these to their reading list.