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DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
Deakin University supported our Year 12 students with everything they need to know about VTAC and applying for University courses, scholarship and SEAS applications.
YEAR 10 CREATIVE INDUSTRY EXCURSION
Wednesday 29th July our Year 10 students travelled down to Warrnambool’s Lighthouse Theatre to attend the Creative Arts and Industry workshop hosted by the Neil Porter Legacy Foundation. Students were exposed to a variety of industries from filming, photography, creative arts, social media promotion, makeup artists and many more
BELL SHAKESPEARE
Friday 31st July our students were delighted to once again welcome the Bell Shakespeare Players, a touring ensemble of professional artists, to our school for three wonderful performances. The sessions provided students across the Primary, Middle and Senior years the opportunity to experience Shakespeare not just as words on a page, but as living, breathing theatre.
We were particularly pleased to welcome guests from St Colman’s for our Primary performance and students from Terang College for our Middle School performance, allowing even more young people to share in the experience.
Our Primary students travelled back to Elizabethan England in The Wonderful World of Will. Meeting William Shakespeare where they had the pleasure of meating a group of historical and fictional players. Students were introduced to some of Shakespeare’s famous plays, characters and language. The interactive performance gave students the opportunity to perform some Shakespeare themselves!
Our Middle School students experienced Such Sweet Sorrow, a fast-paced and engaging retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Through a combination of Shakespeare’s original text and contemporary commentary, The Players explored character motivations, themes, language techniques and the enduring relevance of one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies.
Our Senior students were fortunate to experience Macbeth: The Rehearsal, with the performance generously funded by Bell Shakespeare. Students became a ‘fly on the wall’ at a fictional rehearsal, watching scenes and soliloquies from Macbeth come to life while exploring the decisions, motivations and creative processes involved in transforming Shakespeare’s text into performance.
Experiences such as these remind us why Shakespeare continues to have an important place in schools. His plays invite students to grapple with complex ideas, explore human behaviour, appreciate the power and creativity of language, and connect with stories that have resonated across generations. Having access to shows like this encourages imagination, empathy, curiosity and a deeper understanding of how stories are brought to life.
It was wonderful to see Shakespeare once again brought to life across our school and to give our students the opportunity to watch, participate, question, imagine — and perhaps discover their own love of Shakespeare along the way.
