FROM THE PRINCIPAL

TERM 1

Welcome to 2019

Happy 100th Birthday Lilydale High School

Welcome to a very exciting year in the history of Lilydale High School, it's 100 years since the school opened as Lilydale Elementary School and enrolled the first students. The school has a very proud history of educating students from across the Lilydale and Yarra Valley areas - we look forward to celebrating our achievements with our current community and alumni.

Welcome back to all of our students and families and a very special welcome to those students and their families who join us for the first time, we look forward to a successful partnership over the coming years.

New Staff

We welcome a number of new staff to LHS:

Peter Thornton - Humanities
Lonan O’ Lorgnain - Languages
Aaron Leeson - Humanities
Cameron Taylor - PASE
Cara Skeen - Head of Languages
Kylie Thomas - Integration

School Strategic Plan

2019 - 2022

During 2018 we undertook the school review process to determine what had been achieved over the previous 4 years and to set goals for the next 4 years. Two main goals have been set:

To improve student learning growth across all learning areas.
To achieve a culture of high expectations to raise aspirations and the achievement of all students.

To enable us to achieve these goals, a number of key improvement strategies have been developed.

Some of these include; building teacher capacity, continue to build curriculum, incorporate a range of teaching strategies, increase student voice and agency and increase the use of student achievement data.

These goals also align with our vision statement:

‘LHS is dedicated to providing an environment that values academic excellence and maximises opportunities and pathways to enable all students to become resilient and contributing members of the community’

‘Excellence in learning, resilience in life, thriving in community’

We are looking forward to continuing the journey of making LHS a place where all students can achieve.

Building Program Update

The design plans for the new Zoology Centre and Administration Building are currently being approved.

The 5.8 million dollar project is tracking well and work should start in the second part of the year.

Year 12 Results 2018

Our Year 12 results from 2018 were very pleasing with 87% of students receiving a first round offer for tertiary studies.

We had a number of students scoring an ATAR of over 90, with our DUX Damien Armstrong scoring 98.05. Congratulations and well done to these students scoring in excess of 90.

Our average study score is 28, one of the best in the area. Congratulations to everyone who successfully completed their VCE in 2018!

Our first group of Senior VCAL students will finish their two year course this year.

Student Leadership Team 2019

Our student leadership team in this centenary year consists of:

Year 8

Captain - Cooper Hills 8C

Captain – Georgia Schlittler 8C

Vice Captain - Ky Harris 8G

Vice Captain – Mikayla Minardi 8B

Year 9

Captain - Cooper Rouget 9B

Captain – Valentina Aloysius 9C

Vice Captain - Jye Peacock 9L

Vice Captain - Tayja Maki 9B

Year 10

Captain - Molly Keyhoe 10M

Captain – Theo Georgiou 10A

Year 11

Captain – Lily Black 11I

Captain – Derek Villaceran 11A

Year 12

School Captain – Jet Harris 12B

School Captain – Rory Davies 12B

Captain – Molly Nyhuis 12H

Captain – Alex Mayne 12G

Captain - Hannah Smart 12C

Humanities Captains

Daniel Sultana 12K

Nicholas Rowe 12A

Sports Captains

Lily Peacock 12K

Beau Tennant 12K

House Captains

Tate

Alexis Tucker 12I

Bailey Chandler 12E

Everard

Montanna Wallis 12F

Ryan Havekotte 12G

Deakin

Sarah Falkingham 12B

Stephanie White 12K

Cummins

Ruby Thompson 12D

Jarrod Gilbee 12F

STEAM Captains

Peter Paladino 9E

Alesia Jensen 9A

Bethany Lamont 8A

Tim Garner 8A

Science Captains

Kirra Gordon 12B

Tivona Aloysius 12A

Ruby Damiani 12B

Visual Arts Captains

Jess Faneco 12I

Keely Parker-Crundwell 12B

Performing Arts Captains

Jessica Clarke 12A

Jonah Phillips 12A

Celebrations Timeline

We have a number of events planned for the year, the current list is provided for you. Information will be updated on the website and Facebook page throughout the year.

Celebrations began on Monday 11 February, with a full school assembly that was organised by our student leadership team.

Term 1

Monday 11 February

Whole School Assembly

Period 4

Student leaders to present to the school
Launch writing competition for the last chapter of ‘Look to the Light’ book (LHS history)
Launch bookmark competition (will be given as gift with purchase of book)
Mention other competitions such as: school tie design, new school song, Hall of Fame induction, cafe in PAC foyer on Open Day (volunteers required)
Birthday cake for everyone!

Saturday 30 March

Commencement Dinner

Karralyka Centre

Ringwood

Book launch: Look to the Light
LHS branded wine for sale
Launch Memorial Seat plaque offer

Sunday 31 March

School Tour and morning tea (for out of town visitors)

Some are travelling quite a distance for the Commencement Dinner

Term 2

Thursday 2 May

School’s Birthday

Year 11 Business Management Market Day

Music kids to sing existing school song
Launch new school song competition
Drone photo (to occur during Periods 1 and 2)

Saturday 18 May

Open Day

Opening of LHS Mural
Hall of Fame induction
Rooms by decade

Term 3

Tuesday 17 September

Whole school Breakfast

Perform new school song
Launch school tie design competition

Term 4

Announcement of tie design competition
Time capsule burial (Date TBC)

** High Expectations ** Uniform & Mobile Phones

Thank you to everyone for your support in relation to uniform and mobile phone policies. We have had to remind a number of students about mobile phone use and facial piercings over the past week.

It is important that everyone complies with the rules and expectations so that we can get on with the business of learning in a safe and consistent environment.

Our policies in relation to both of these matters can be found on the school website.

Communications

You can contact any staff member via Compass email or via phone at any stage, they will return your communications.

In the interests of work – life balance for our staff there is a policy in place regarding the timing of communication.

Staff will reply to emails within 48 hours, however, they are not obliged to check emails after 4.30 pm. if there is an urgent need for communication please phone the school directly.

Thank you to everyone for your assistance with this.

Leadership Team 2019

The leadership team for 2019 includes:

Principal

Wendy Powson

Assistant Principals

Stuart Young

Trent Silk

Melissa McMillan

Genaha Thompson

Please note that Genaha Thompson is Head of Junior School as part of her Assistant Principal responsibilities.

Head of Senior School and Year 12

Katie Wilson

Head of Year 11

Janine Sayers

Head of Middle School and Year 10

Elizabeth Nevins

Head of Year 9

Daniel Toma

Head of Year 8

Matthew Nicholls

Head of Year 7

Jeremy Neuman

Head of Curriculum - Ben Taylor

Head of English - Jessica Timmers

Head of Mathematics - Liz Rundell

Head of Humanities - Leah Shields

Head of Languages - Kelly Farrell (Semester 1, Cara Skeen on leave)

Head of PASE - Alister Stuart

Head of Technology - Caitlin Marshall