School Highlights
Welcome to New Families
Welcome to all our new students and their families including our new Prep and Year 7 parents. We enjoyed meeting you all at our Welcome Morning Teas.
PREP MORNING TEA
YEAR 7 MORNING TEA
Royal Commonwealth Society Event
Dee Broughton – Talent Development and Enrichment Coordinator
On February 11, I had the pleasure of attending an awards evening with the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) – Victorian Branch at ‘The Gables’ in Malvern East with four students.
Year 8 students, Zak McKinnon, Adhvik Bala-Aiyer, JY Oon and George Hiladakis (former student), and their parents, grandparents and friends attended to see them receive awards for their 2019 submissions in the Queens Commonwealth Writing Competition.
This writing competition was established in 1883 and the RCS receives thousands of entries from young people all around the world every year. The School has entered students’ writing for many years now and enjoys a positive relationship with the RCS. We look forward to many of our students participating this year!
Other students who received awards (but weren't in attendance) were Maria Wang, Anthea Diplaris, Sarah Yeo, Aidin Skinner and Milly Eyres.
International Women in Science Day
To celebrate International Women in Science Day, some of our students recently attended the ‘Meet a Scientist’ event at the Royal Women’s Hospital.
The girls were given the opportunity to learn about current research in women’s health and explore potential pathways available to them in science and medical health and research.
French Language Exchange Program
Lucie Dickens, Academic Dean of Languages
For five weeks during the 2020 summer holidays, some of our French Language students from Years 10 and 11 were given the opportunity to take part in the Individual Exchange Program with our French sister school – Saint Joseph La Salle in Toulouse.
The trip was an excellent opportunity for our students to immerse themselves in the French culture, consolidate and greatly enhance their language skills, and experience a lifestyle that is very different to that of life here in Australia.
Below is an account of the trip from one of the students who participated in the exchange trip.
By Charlotte Glassel, Year 11
When we arrived in Toulouse, we were immediately welcomed by our host families, who instantly made us feel at home. After a day of rest (to recover from jetlag!), we were taken to our first week of classes. While some of us dreaded being back at school during our summer holidays, we were all appreciative of the opportunity to experience education in a foreign country.
Following this came two weeks of Christmas holidays. It was during this time that we were treated to such excursions as the traditional Winter Night Markets in the centre of the city. We were also exposed to authentic French Christmas celebrations while surrounded by our host families and friends – this made the experience even more enjoyable.
The holiday break also featured visits to destinations outside of Toulouse – including Paris, London, the Pyrenees, Madrid and Rome. These experiences were a highlight for many of us during our stay and gave each of us an even broader experience of European culture.
The final two weeks of our trip consisted of two more weeks of school. We were very pleased to see how much we had already progressed in our second language ... many of us felt that we were able to understand everything that was being taught during classes.
The end of our exchange brought many a tear to our eyes. None of us wanted to say goodbye to this incredible experience or to the people we had met.
Steph Darvell, Charlie Haldezos, William Douglas and I would like to thank our host families and everyone else involved in making this experience as amazing as it has been. We strongly recommend this exchange program to any Kilvington language student and hope that they get as much out of it as we did.
Merci Beaucoup!