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EISM Senior Grand Finals & Premierships

Our EISM Winter Senior Sport Season concluded with six Oakleigh Grammar Teams qualifying for the EISM Grand Final. 

EISM Senior Teams qualifying for Grand Finals:

Senior Girls Volleyball A

Senior Boys Volleyball A

Senior Girls Volleyball B

Senior Boys Volleyball B 

Senior Girls Indoor Soccer

Senior Boys Indoor Soccer 

EISM Grand Finals were played last week where three of our Senior Teams were successful in winning an EISM Premiership. 

Congratulations to the following EISM Premiership Teams and Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award winners:

Senior Girls Volleyball A - Premiers 

Oakleigh Grammar defeated Nunawading 3 sets to 0. 

Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award - Samita Upadhyaya           

Senior Boys Indoor Soccer - Premiers 

Oakleigh Grammar defeated Kingswood College 9 - 4.

Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award - Lukas Oliver           

Senior Girls Volleyball B - Premiers 

Oakleigh Grammar defeated Kilvington 3 sets to 0. 

Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award - Arietta Apostolopoulos

Senior Boys Volleyball A - Runner’s Up 

Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award - CJ Rocks

Senior Boys Volleyball B - Runner’s Up 

Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award - Vassos Charalambous

Senior Girls Indoor Soccer - Runner’s Up 

Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award -Ellie Tziotzis

Greg Joyce 

Senior Boys Volleyball A Coach

Careers

Monash University Science VCE Revision Lectures

Cost: $10.00 which includes a set of comprehensive revision notes to be used in session. Where: Monash University, Clayton Campus

Monash Experience Day Workshops

Year 10 – 12 students are invited to participate in one of these hands-on experience days workshops, at the Monash Caulfield campus. 

Find out more and register at Experience Day Workshops - Art, Design and Architecture. 

Discover Monash 

Monash will be hosting the remaining Discover Monash events or activities over the coming weeks.  Unless specified online**, these will be face-to-face events.

Register at Discover Monash.

RMIT School Holidays Campus Tours

In the upcoming September holidays, RMIT will be hosting campus tours for high school students across the City, Brunswick and Bundoora campuses.  These would be worth registering for, particularly if students missed the recent RMIT Open Day.

A Day in the Life of a Swinburne Student

Students in Years 9 – 12 are invited to visit the Hawthorn Campus and experience the university.  With talks, presentations, hands-on workshops into future study areas and more over 4 days,  students can register for the one they are most interested in.  They will run from 9.30am – 3.15pm.

Find out more and register at A Day in the Life of a Swinburne Student.

OG Alumni Panel Speaker Series – Event 2 – 24th August

On Thursday afternoon 24th August, Event 2 of the OG Alumni Panel Speaker Series was held in the NP Nikolakakis Centre of Academic Excellence for our Year 12 students.

We welcomed 3 panellists - Kostantinos Takos from the Class of 2014 who is an Engineer and works for ATC Williams, and from the class of 2022 Anastasia Voutsas who is studying a Bachelor of Paramedicine at Monash University and Toni Stathopoulos who is studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at the University of Melbourne Victorian College of The Arts. 

All 3 Alumni shared their amazing post school journeys into tertiary education and full time employment.  They also spoke of their time at Oakleigh Grammar, and provided our students with timely study tips and advice to assist them as their exams are fast approaching.  

Students and staff also had the opportunity to ask them many burning questions for the final part of the event before delving into some afternoon tea provided by our Sponsor Jamie Evans of McDonald’s Clayton and Chadstone. 

Michelle Mascaro

Careers Advisor

Debating 

Interhouse and Interschool Debating

Round 5 marked the end of the Glen Waverley region debating season for our Year 9-12 teams. With only three debates on the final night, we won two and lost one, a great result.

Sadly, the loss was the Year 9 top-of-the-table debate against Mazenod – leaving us second on the ladder and just missing out to the Victorian finals, by one agonising point, 227 to 226. Nathanael, Nefeli and Elena were excellent, and the adjudicator sang their praises highly. The arguments were seen as quite equal, with Mazenod scored slightly higher on their confident presentation, giving them the edge. Meanwhile Archna, Benjamin and Lazarus did a clever last minute switch of speaker positions and beat The Knox School with a stellar performance from Lazarus in third speaker – his first Best Speaker Award.

We clearly have a very strong, talented Year 9 team with a hard-working, positive culture that we hope sees them stick together as a unit all the way through Senior School.

The Year 12s had a secret topic for their swan song - given one hour and no technology to prepare and argue against the motion “That universities should be legally obliged to provide part-time jobs to their graduates”. Semere deserved credit for stepping up for his first debate and getting through the nerves. He was followed by our rising star Sotiris Bakalis (Year 11, debating as a Year 12, and winning Best Speaker) and our unstoppable outgoing captain Noah Peoples who is simply amazing to watch. They won by 2 points.

As a whole school and for the season, we won 13 and lost 6 from 19 debates, our best overall result yet and a great showing against some high quality schools with much larger cohorts. We keep on growing, and keep our sights locked on going one step further to make those state finals in 2024.

…and the debating did not stop there!

On campus, Bradman, Rose and Fraser Houses competed in a round robin format from Year 6 to Year 11, culminating in a grand final held on the Conference Centre stage in front of the whole school. Rose had won the inaugural trophy in 2022 and were thrilled to again take the honours this year.

In addition to the Interschool and Interhouse Competitions, every Year 8 Oakleigh Grammar student debated in their Pastoral classes with a team of peers in a slightly more relaxed format (but just as passionate) battle of words and ideas. 8B (5 wins) defeated 8A (3 wins) and look to be a formidable new team for 2024!

Thank you to Mr. Robertson, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Joyce and to the class mates and family members who attended and supported our teams throughout the season.

Leigh Gridley

Year Level Leader (Years 8 and 9)