Senior School Report
Ms Anna Papagiannopoulos
Westall Secondary College
Message from the
Director of Learning
Senior School
Anna Papagiannopoulos
MENTOR PROGRAM – LUNCHEON
On the 22nd of March the senior school held their ‘meet and greet’ you Mentor lunch in the wellbeing centre.
The reveal for the Year 12 students was their staff mentor for 2024. We currently have 40 staff and students participating in the program, which is outstanding.
The staff and students were excited to meet and chat over a delicious lunch of ‘chicken and chips’ bought to us by Westall Charcoal Chicken. The students were presented with a small token bag of goodies to kickstart their mentoring journey.
The conversations were lively, the room was filled with laughter, the energy infectious!
Ms Anna Papagiannopoulos
Director of Learning, Senior School
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY LUNCH – Chadstone Hotel
Zoi Siliopoulou and M Ifandis were invited to attend the International Women’s Day lunch at the Chadstone Hotel. The event is organised annually by Monash University – Department of Business.
It was an honour to sit amongst three hundred academics and trailblazers of future change. Amongst some of the incredible women at the event were Mindy Woods, Master Chef presenter on indigenous foods, and Rochelle Courteney, advocate for women of all ages, and founder and Manager of ‘Share the Dignity’ foundation. She is proud of the title ‘Ms Pad’.
It is the work of Rochelle Courteney that our schools are now equipped with sanitary items for our young women.
Zoi and I were honoured to meet these two incredible women, and also had the opportunity to try some delicious indigenous plants, believe it or not are growing not far from our door-steps. Finger lime being one of the most popular of all, one that holds the most concentrated vitamin C of all plants that grow on our planet!
Helen Ifandis
Year 12 Coordinator
Ms Helen Ifandis
Year 12 Coordinator
Year 12 EAL Excursion to ACMI
ON Wednesday the 13th of March all the Year 12 EAL students headed to ACMI to watch a screening of the 1950’s film ‘Sunset Boulevard’. We have been studying this film as part of the Unit 3 ‘Reading and Responding to Texts’ outcome.
ACMI stands for the ‘Australian Centre for the Moving Image’, so film is their business! They have a huge screen, and it was great watching the film on such a big screen, instead of the much smaller projectors at school. It was much easier to notice important details in the film, like the interior of the decrepit and spooky house where the faded movie star, Norma Desmond, lives.
Afterwards, a presenter talked to us about how Billy Wilder made his film - one of the best films of the Golden Era of Hollywood, and one of the best examples of film noir.
Conja Coetzee
EAL Coordinator