Junior School Report

Junior school students and staff have continued to be busy since our last newsletter report in Term 2, either onsite or online. Thank you to all students and staff for your support of our onsite classes or online classes throughout the remote learning periods. We are proud of the efforts and commitment of our junior students in all their classes onsite and online and extra- curricular activities they have been involved in.

Interschool Sports Teams

There have been many students participate in Interschool Sport teams onsite in late Term 2 and early Term 3, including Badminton, Soccer, Netball and the Darebin Athletics competition. Congratulations to all students for participating in these teams and well done on your achievements.  Thank you also to all staff who have been coaching and supporting these teams through training and coaching on game day.

Student of the Month (June) Awards – Years 7 & 8

We are proud to officially announce that the successful recipients of the Student of the Month Award for June, based on staff nominations are:

7A – Tianxin Ji & Hendrick Viray

7B – Adam Adly Yassin Aly & Heidi De Angelis

7C – Jamielee Barden-Sattler & Peter Kargas

7D – Jenny Liu & Daniel Ly

7E – Mia McMenamen & Serenity Smith

8A – Reece Harvey & Monika Sukreska

8B – Jennifer Ho & William Rawson

8C – Rosie Norton & Brooke Whiting

8D – Aqeel Hassan & Julia Podgorska

8E – Elyas Mabrok & Rehana Tran

Once again, congratulations to our June Award winners who will receive their certificates in coming weeks.

Year 7 & 8 Swimming Classes at Reservoir Leisure Centre

Congratulations to all Year 7 and 8 students who participated in the four week unit at Reservoir Leisure Centre as part of their Physical Education classes this term.  The program was been based on swimming technique and water safety sessions. Well done to all students who participated in the sessions in Term 3 and we thank Ms Zahra for coordinating all of the sessions.  

Year 7 Watermarc Excursion

All Year 7’s will shortly receive online notification for our annual Year 7 Watermarc excursion which will be held on Tuesday 14 September (Term 3, Week 1).  This excursion is a fantastic and fun day out for all Year 7 students to enjoy the day with each other and celebrate the end of Semester 1 and the Year 7 Swimming Program. It is also a day aimed at consolidating on our Respect Ambassador Program this term. 

Semester 1 Reports

The Semester 1 Reports were released on Tuesday 27 July. We encourage all parents/guardians to read through them and discuss them with your child. If you would like further information or follow up please contact the Junior School. If you are experiencing difficulty logging on to compass to view them please contact Tammy Baines. 

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your child’s progress please feel free to contact us at any time on 9466 0900.

Kind regards

Junior School Team

Darryl Forbes – Junior School Leader

Mrs Tammy Baines – Junior School Office Manager

Ms Christine Farrugia – Year 7 Coordinator

Mr Greg Irvin - Year 8 Coordinator

Ms Natalie Manser – Assistant Principal 

Yr. 7/8 Health Immersion Day 

by: Alexia and Mackenzie

On the 9th of June there was a year 7/8 health immersion day. It was held in the 4th lockdown, the previous lockdown so it was all online. That did not stop us from learning and having fun!!! We had an entire day of special guests and fun activities based on physical and mental health, such as weights and meditating. There were also a lot of group activities, afterwards we would send in pictures of all the amazing activities we did.

On during our first virtual WebEx meeting, we had someone come from a charity called "One Girl". "One Girl" is a charity about raising money for African girls and women to be able to have the resources and money to go to school and get an education. It was fun and a reminder that we are lucky to be able to get an education and have the money to purchase all the resources we need. Our fourth WebEx we had, was a talk about putting things off and procrastinating. The whole session we talked about the steps to stop postponing our priorities. It was fun, entertaining and helpful to all of us who really put many important jobs a side because of procrastinating.

In the last half of the day, we could choose which WebEx to join there were four choices and you got the opportunity to choose two of them. Some of the WebEx’s had guests teaching you what to do and others were teacher run sessions. Personally, my favourite was the meditating where you lay down and listened to what you had to do (e.g. scrunch your face then release). There were also other activities such as dance, weights and rap song writing WebEx’s going on. In the day we also got the opportunity to do something by ourselves from the activity sheet provided. There were several options from baking, drawing, or going out for a run, really anything you could think of. It was an amazing day with so many fun activities especially considering it being online with unpredictable internet.

It was a fun day with helpful information and fun activities. All year 7/8s participated so it was busy and exciting the whole day, with so many opportunities and activities. It was all around an amazing experience. The guests were also very experienced and nice. We also thank the teachers who ran the incredible online WebEx’s.