Junior School Highlights

Year 7 Camp

On Wednesday 7th March, the Year 7 cohort took the long and winding road to camp at Rawson’s Village. Students were introduced to a magnificent landscape full of interesting and daring activities such as swimming, high ropes, rock climbing, bushwalking and other activities to build social interactions, community awareness, self-confidence, problem solving, teamwork, trust and life skills. The camp talent show revealed many hidden talents, from singing, dancing and piano solos to some future stand-up comedians. Camp was a great opportunity for students to make new friends and get to know their teachers. On Friday afternoon a tired group of students arrived back at Glen Eira College with new friendships and plenty of stories to tell.

Bernie Coghlan and Delanka Peiris

Year 7 Coordinators

Year 8 Highlights

The school year is well and truly up and running and the Year 8 students have settled in nicely. Students are taking full advantage of their new chromebooks, making for collaborative and efficient learning in the classroom.

The following students from Year 8 are taking part in the GEC 2018 School Production:

- Maani Baker

- Warne Hewett

- Keely Edwards

- Masha Salsky

- Leila Newby

- Emma Lightbody

- Essie Wilson

- Phoebe Clarke

- Sebastian Buley-Delanty

- Caleb Hopewell

- Jarrod Wisdom

- Ashleigh Datt

- Aimee Venier

- Jasmyn Roberts

- Emma Gould

- Alicia Scott

- Caoimhe McCooey

- Kate Stamp

Good luck with rehearsals and we look forward to seeing the show later in the year.

Year 8 interschool sport day was on Wednesday 14th March. We had teams competing in softball, volleyball, cricket, and tennis. Our girls' softball team won their round-robin and will move on to the next stage of competition. Our boys' volleyball team came runners-up, losing a thriller in the third set of the grand final.

The Cross Country Carnival is on the last day at school at Caulfield Park. It is a great way to celebrate the end of term 1 and promises to be a great day.

Have an enjoyable finish to the term and a safe holidays, and I look forward to keeping you updated on what is happening at GEC next term.

Daniel Mulligan

Year 8 Coordinator

Drone Club

This is our first year offering Drone Club as an extracurricular activity for junior students. The advancement in recent years of UAV’s, Drones are no longer military use only. Their wide use as both recreational and workplace tools makes it important our students are given the opportunity to learn not only how to fly them but maintain and repair the equipment. Multi skilling our students can only enhance their opportunities in the future.

John Tserkezidis

Materials Technology Teacher