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Meet your 2023 Victorian Global Learning Awards winner!

The community at Doncaster Secondary College congratulates international student and College co-captain, Berry Eain, for winning the Year 11 Student Leadership Award at the 2023 Victorian Global Learning Awards held on the 8th June. Each year in Victoria, one international student from year 11 and one from year 12 will receive this award which recognises outstanding leadership. Berry is a great contributor to both our school and the wider community.

The Victorian Global Learning Awards are a celebration and recognition of what brings us together, the strength of Victoria’s international relationships and the esteem with which we are held internationally for global learning and engagement. But most importantly it is a celebration of our students, teachers, parents, principals and homestay families, and the contribution they make to our schools and community.

Big congratulations to Berry!

SEAL Open Night

Tuesday 1st August 2023

5.30pm (W-Block)

Are you a high-achieving student? Are you a future SEAL?

Doncaster Secondary College offers expanded opportunities for high-ability & high-achieving students beginning in Year 7. Our Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL) program brings together these students and provides a curriculum that will motivate, inspire and challenge their learning.

We warmly invite all families, including current and prospective SEAL students, to discover our SEAL program and its entry requirements. Our SEAL Open Night will feature the following:

• Refreshments on arrival while you peruse the work of our current SEAL students
• Principal's Welcome
• Presentation by our Learning Specialist teachers
• DSC Alumni SEAL students: Q&A session
• Next steps: SEAL Testing dates and eligibility

Book your ticket to the Open Night here: https://compasstix.com/e/duzo9hiauz

Student Agents for Change

On Friday 16th June a large number of DSC students across years 7-11 participated in a community-focused leadership and philanthropy workshop called 'Agents for Change', hosted by Kids in Philanthropy (KiP). The program empowers and educates young people to assist others in need. Partnering with local charities, Stride Education and Father Bob's Foundation, our students packed Breakfast on the Go & Morning Tea bags, and wrote Cards of Hope to our community members who are displaced and/or in need.

By participating in this workshop, our students gained an increased sense of empathy for others, heightened wellbeing by helping others, learned skills on how to be a changemaker within their community and fostered their desire to help others. 

DSC Short Story Competition 2023

The annual DSC Short Story Competition has begun! The competition is open to all students across the College. You can upload your completed story to the Learning Task in your English subject on Compass by Friday, 28th July, or you can send it directly to Ms Skennar.

Winners will be announced near the end of term 3 and invited to a special lunch and award ceremony. Review the handout which outlines the instructions. Reach out to your English teacher if you have any questions and good luck! We look forward to reading your creations.

Kristin Skennar

Excellence in Learning and Teaching Leader Teacher

Your Culture, Our Culture

Over Term 2, our International Student Forum team ran the 'Your Culture, Our Culture' art competition and they have been very pleased with the high level of participation amongst our students and teachers. The winners have been announced and prizes were awarded at a ceremony held in the International Student Hub on Tuesday 13th June. 

We are delighted to share the winning submissions with the DSC community. Please find below a display of the award-winning artwork.

Merit awards:

• Parmis G. (Year 7). Representing Persian culture and the Persian New Year, Nowruz. The Haft Sin table is the symbol.

• Diba T. (Year 8). The artwork is a bouquet of flowers from Iran, New Zealand, and Australia, and features Bote-jeghe symbol and Aboriginal art from Australia.

• Ruby Y. (Year 9). Ruby drew Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong, her hometown. She selected this scene for its iconic, beautiful and special tourist attraction. It also holds a special place in her heart for being a place she spent lot of time with friends and family.

• Abbey M. (Year 10):  Abbey has travelled her whole life, and this picture represents spending time with her family, exploring new places around the world. Abbey and her family have spent time walking in national parks across many different countries, and each has delivered new plants and animals, while they all have things in common, such as mountains and rivers.

• Linya H. (Year 11): The painting features giant pandas, China's national treasure, ancient-style clothes and background decorations, inspired by fish scales.

• Aiden R. (Year 12): Aiden's artwork is a clown lady with bright orange hair and red teardrops, representing Venetian performance culture.

Student Winners: 

3rd place – Nikta R. (Year 10). A painting on canvas representing Iranian culture. 

2nd place – William W. (Year 11). The painting "Spring Snow" depicts the arrival of spring, with the gray sky covered with flying snow and the red walls and green tiles being warm and harmonious. The poem "Spring Snow" by Han Yu describes the flowers that have not been fragrant in the New Year, making people anxious. The snow is full of joy looking forward to spring.

1st place - Claire S. (Year 8). Dunhuang culture is the result of the long-term integration of various civilisations, resulting in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and colourful Dunhuang culture.

Teacher Winner:

1st place – Mr. Simon Tay. Mr Tay's artwork symbolises his country of origin - Malaysia. Showing off the cultures Malaysia has, such as food and other things, particularly Chinese culture.

Congratulations to all the students and teachers who showcased the uniqueness and beauty of your own culture through the amazing artwork! 

Saving the environment one bread bag at a time

As reported previously, the Environmental Club have been asking our commity to bring in their plastic bread bags as part of the Wonder Recycle Program. The program has now ended, and the students are sending in the contributions that DSC have made to reducing plastic waste in our community. The Enviro Club thank everyone for their participation in this important cause.

Janelle Farley

Geography, History and Humanities Teacher

Student Interest Clubs

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We are also launching a Movie Club soon so keep an eye out for details!

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