Around the Grounds

Year 12 Final Day

The final day at school for the Class of 2023!

Valedictory

The 2023 Valedictory Dinner was on Friday October 13, celebrating this brilliant Year 12 cohort. With wonderful words spoken by Mrs Fiona Knox-Johnson and Pranav C (Valedictorian).

Chess

An exciting end to the Chess year for our players with the State Finals played at Brighton Grammar.

After two rounds we were one of only three teams, along with Scotch College and Melbourne High, with a perfect score. Our top five boys were very keen to take out this tournament because the winners get to travel to Adelaide in January for the National Finals.

After five rounds we were equal second with Melbourne High just one point ahead in first place. By the time the last (8th round) came along, we had slipped to 3rd place but still in the hunt to take out the tournament because we were just 1.5 points behind the leaders.

Chess tournaments are designed so that the competition gets tougher for the top players and teams with each successive round. We were nevertheless still hopeful of results going our way in the last round but alas, it was not to be. We finished up a very creditable 4th overall, just 2 points behind the overall winners, Melbourne High. Waverley Christian College was second and Scotch College third.

Our team has come a long way in recent years, and we are now a force to be reckoned with in the toughest high school chess competition in Victoria, and if we believe the organisers, it is also the toughest state chess competition in the country.

Well done to all our players. Rey D was our best player on the day finishing with 6 points from 8 games.

Mr Rodney Jones

Chess Coach

Garden Group

Harvest time! Featuring:

Heirloom carrots
Silver beet
Lettuce
Kale

Mr Rob Kitchingman

Project Manager

Art Exhibition

What a wonderful celebration of our VCE Art and Design students works on display.

Staff, students, Parents and friends Celebrated the excellence of our year 12 creative Visual Communication Design students lead by Mr Damien Lees, and Art Making and Exhibiting students working with Mrs Marion Power. Thanks go to our Technician Maddy Anderson, and past student teacher Paige Wu, helping with the Installation of many different artworks, Lighting and brochures.

Geoff and his amazing team organising the exhibition space - no job too hard.

To Mary for feeding us all with wonderful biscuits, cakes, coffee and tea, and Thanks to the wellbeing team for letting us invade your space so graciously.

Mr Lees continues to have students works that were of such an excellent design standard across a variety of concepts and presentations.

Artworks this year were diverse, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, painting.

A wonderfully high standard of artwork.

Congratulations and thanks to all the student’s presenting this year. A great finale to a years work.