College News, Sports & Events

CSEF - Camps Sports and Excursion Fund

Applications close 25th June. Late Applications cannot be taken!

If you have already applied for 2021 please DO NOT apply again.For further information please contact the General Office at your son/daughter’s Campus.

Keysborough College Reading Challenge

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 At Keysborough College, we hold annual Reading Challenges to promote a positive and vibrant reading culture. Reading is an important skill for academic, and life, success. It increases your knowledge, vocabulary, and boosts brain power. Not only that, it’s fun! In the Keysborough College libraries, we’re all about reading extensively for pleasure and profit.

 If you are a Keysborough College student then you qualify for entry into The Keysborough College Reading Challenge. All you need to do, is read, and record, a minimum of 15 (approved) books, by Term 4. Do this, and you will receive a certificate to celebrate your commitment to becoming a better reader. Now certificates are great, you might say, but you want more? Well, ok - There’s many other amazing prizes to be won also. Drop in to your closest library to see your friendly library staff for more information.

 It’s not too late to get involved!  Happy reading!

Music Program Report

It has been a very productive start to the year in the College Music Program.

Year 7 - The year began with all Year 7 students trying out each Band instrument to discover which instrument they wanted to learn in 2021.  The music centre at each campus echoed with the sounds of brass and woodwind instruments as the Year 7 students tried their best to make a sound on each instrument. A few weeks later, all students received a school instrument to use for the year and began lessons with their instrument teacher. Since that time, the students have made fabulous progress on their instruments and they are now preparing for their first band performance at the Beginner Band concert to be held in Week 7.

The Banksia Year 8 Band - Completed their very first performance in front of an audience at the Banksia Campus Open Night. They did a terrific job managing their nerves and performing to the best of their ability. Well done to all students involved!

The Acacia Year 8 Band - Performed a fabulous lunchtime performance with many students showing their support and listening on. Congratulations to all our music students for their hard work rehearsing and performing so far this year!

Senior Music - The Senior music students are also off to a great start with some amazing performances already completed. The Acacia Senior Band played at the Acacia Open Night with a range of pop and movie music that greatly entertained the visiting parents and students.

Upcoming Performances - Looking forward to seeing many parents, staff and students!  

Acacia Year 7 Beginner Band Concert – Tuesday 1st June, 6pm-7pm, Acacia Gymnasium

Banksia Year 7 Beginner Band Concert – Thursday 3rd June, 6pm-7pm, Banksia Theatre

Winter Music Concert – Wednesday 16th June, 7pm-9pm, Banksia Theatre

Tom Kenneth – College Music Coordinator

College Open Night

The displays around the school were the best you have ever seen! The school and facilities looked fantastic. A special mention to Mr Hayter who worked tirelessly with the Year 8 Band and the incredible tour guides.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PRODUCTION

This year we are looking forward to our 2021 production ‘High School Musical’ that will be performed from August 19th to August 21st at our wonderful Banksia theatre. Our cast includes students from all year levels who have been working tirelessly after school at Wednesday rehearsals learning choreography, vocals and acting.

Tickets will be available for purchase from Week 5 onwards - We cannot wait to share what we have been working on!  

4Cs 2021

An enthusiastic group of 40 students from both campuses have begun rehearsing for the 2021 ‘Cultivating Creative Cultures with Communities’ otherwise known as the 4Cs. These students are practicing after school to produce a 25 minute showcase of song, music and dance representing different cultures from our College to present at Bunjil Place Narre Warren on Monday 6 September. Practice is every Monday at Acacia and Thursday at Banksia in the respective theatre till 5.30. Please keep an eye on future newsletter and Compass about ticket sales and dress rehearsals should you be wishing to support our very talented students.   Nichole McCarthy 4Cs Co-Ordinator.

Annual International Student Excursion 

Phillip Island, the location of our annual ISP excursion this year is a wonderful experience for me. Especially as a Year 12 International student, this is the time for us to join because it is our last outing together. To keep the beautiful memory for the end of strict and earnest student time to step into a new environment.

On the 7th of April, in the first week of the holidays, instead of staying at home, we chose to go to Phillip Island. We departed at 8:30 and it took us about 2 hours to get to the Antarctic Journey Centre-Nobbies Boardwalk, where we can see penguins and walk through in the 3D virtual icy locations. 

Besides the Nobbies we also had a boardwalk together while chatting, enjoying the fresh air, and taking pictures together. Then we visited the chocolate factory to see how chocolates are made, and we got to play some mini games for chocolate. Then, we went to the Koala Conservation and saw the wilderness there – who knew koala bears can sleep so much during the day? After we had lunch together, we went to Churchill Island. As I learnt that area was first walked by the Boonwurrung/ Bunurong Aboriginal people. That is the time for us to have a visit through an ‘old’ homestead and enjoy time together. Then from that we went back to the Restaurant, finished the trip with a delicious dinner before going home. What an amazing trip with lots of memories made!       Huong Quynh NGUYEN

Mid-year report by International 

Student Captain 2021

So, my last annual international student excursion has arrived. Three years of studying at Keysborough College is and will be one of the life experiences that I will never forget. I remember myself as a very shy year-10 boy coming to school worrying that I will never be able to adapt to this new environment, but thankfully it never happened. I am very glad that I chose Australia, especially Keysborough College to study abroad.

Therefore, one memory as I mentioned earlier, which I will add to my list of memorable times, is when I went to Phillip Island with the school, which has made me realise how wonderful Australian nature is.

Thank you all so much for the memories to our ISP Coordinators and my peers in the International Program. I have had some of the best fun of my life whilst getting ready to go out into the adult world. Tan NGUYEN

News from Banksia House Captains

Hello Keysborough students, we are two of your 2021 Banksia House Captains! Judy Le (Athena House Captain) & Kelly Wong (Poseidon House Captain). During the past two terms, we have been busy planning and arranging events such as lunchtime games and karaoke and House Spirit Day. It was great seeing all students from different year levels participating in activities, showing competitiveness and team spirit between all four house colours. We also helped to run the Year 7 House Activities, which was an amazing opportunity to communicate and have fun with the Year 7s and welcome them into the school. We hope everyone enjoyed these events, we all had a blast organising them! Later in the year, we will be responsible for arranging events like Keysborough’s Got Talent and House Athletics, helping out the teachers and cheering for our houses along with you all! We also have some more mini lunchtime activities and fundraising events planned. 

The current House Point Tally for Banksia: 1st Athena, 2nd Artemis, 3rd Apollo and 4th Poseidon. Make sure you come and enjoy the activities planned and participate to earn some house points for your team! Please come and talk to us if you have any more ideas for fun and exciting events! 

Intermediate Boys Netball

On Thursday 6th May, the Intermediate Boys Netball team represented the College in the Dandenong District Netball competition. The boys, after training for some time prior to the event, proved to be simply too good for their opponents and were crowned CHAMPIONS!

It was a pleasure to see the way the boys represented the College with respect and sportsmanship behaviours. The team included: Junior Aberahama, Trojon Arona, Jackson Tiarua, Ezra Charlie, Muhammad Hawili, Ammar Ibrahim, Blade Joseph, Yousif Kui, Tedan Raeina, Sunthana Tyla

Victorian School Cup – Senior Boys Volleyball

On Friday 7th May, the senior boys volleyball team entered into the Victorian Cup against schools from across the state. The boys have trained religiously after school for a couple years. Well, all the hard work has paid off with the team winning the GOLD medal!

The team performed magnificently for the

 whole day remaining undefeated, and achieving something they have worked so hard for! Well done to Chetra Hab, Lawrence La, Cristian Maliko, Nick Nguyen, Anthony Prum, Dionte Russell, Kevin Sok, Jordan Svay, Sa Up, and Sarah Nguyen.

Volleyball championships

Acacia campus year 7 Girls team 2021 Southern Metropolitan runners up in the recent Volleyball championships. The girls played very well to win  all their pool games and playoff in the Grand Final. In a closely contested 3 set game they were narrowly beaten. 

Judy Pavlou - coach