Secondary News

Dear Families,

With Term 2 drawing to close we pause to celebrate many student achievements and for the many exciting learning experiences that occurred across this term.  

We continue to give thanks to our school community, and for the support you provide each and every day as we travel this educational journey together with your child.

This week we celebrated our Thanksgiving Service and recognised outstanding student achievement with the College Learn, Care and Achieve awards. Thank you to all families who came along to support their child in receiving this award. 

Some other highlights from this Semester have been:

• House Athletics Carnival
• Year 10 Zoo Excursion
• Year 9 "Be Your Own Boss Market" Stalls
• Semester 1 Thanksgiving Service
• Year 7 Camp to Camp Rumbug
• Term 2 Assembly Awards
• VCE Art Excursion
• Year 7 Royal Botanic Gardens Excursion
• Year 7 Scienceworks Excursion
• Interschool Sport - Volleyball, Netball, Soccer and AFL
• African Drumming - Harmony Day
• Year 8 Medieval Day
• Interschool Chess Competition
• House Cross Country
• Year 9 Sports Science Excursion to Victorian Institute of Sport
• Year 7 Dance Workshop
• Senior School Semester 1 Exams

On Thursday 22nd June, we were very proud to be able to present award certificates at our end of term assembly to a great number of students for their efforts during Term 2. These awards were given for the following:

• Makes positive uniform choices
• Engages positively with peers and staff
• Punctual to school and classes
• Puts in maximum effort

We are pleased with all the students’ efforts this term and look forward to being able to give out more awards next term.

Some important events  to look forward to in Term 3:

• Student Free Day - Monday 10th July 
• Parent Teacher Interviews - Tuesday 11th July 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (Student Free Day)
• Year 9 and 10 elective information evening- Tuesday 18th July 6pm-7pm
• Year 8, 9 & 10 Camps
• Many more Inter-school sport activities such as Table Tennis and Basketball.

We wish all students and their families a safe and restful break.  We look forward to welcoming all our students back for what is sure to be a very busy Term 3.

Yours sincerely

Mrs Joanne Rothwell                                                                                          Mrs Amanda Trewin

Head of Middle School                                                                                      Head of Senior School

Literacy making lives better!

It is with excitement that we can celebrate the introduction of our much anticipated Literacy Intervention Program across the Secondary School at Lakeside College. 

Students have access to targeted and evidenced based small group literacy interventions, connected to their tutor group leader who will provide consistency and care. What began as a conversation in Principal Robert Tassoni’s office has come to fruition with much background planning and the collaboration of staff across the levels of the College, and colleagues from other Lutheran Colleges in Victoria and South Australia. 

I offer my sincere thanks and gratitude to all for their advice, continued support and belief in our program given by the following people: the English faculty with each member providing advice and support at each step along the way, and especially our Head of English Megan Ball. Our Teaching and Learning Leader in the Primary school, Melissa Harford who could be considered a literacy specialist. Deidre Priebbenow, the Head of Inclusive Education in the Primary school who also introduced new and improved literacy intervention for the primary students. Grace Powell, one of our talented English teachers who has provided one of our specialist intervention programs in the past for students with Dyslexia. We have a new Literacy Intervention Teacher that the College has employed, Sarah Sankey who brings great experience and knowledge from her work with Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER). 

Additional consultations were also utilised to benchmark practices across other Lutheran schools including Good Sheppard Primary School and Luther College in Croydon, and St Martins Lutheran College in Mt Gambier, South Australia. Danielle Worlley and Christine Ware, respectively, are wonderful educators committed to the provision of literacy education and their knowledge of implementing programs and what constitutes a quality program was very insightful. 

Lastly, to our College Executive Team, thank you. Your willingness to invest significant resources to this program and our students is a glorious endorsement of your commitment to continued improvement at the College. 

If you would like to hear more about the program and the key features that we now offer, meet the tutors, please come along to our Afternoon Tea Information Session, Tuesday 1st August from 3:30 pm in the Middle School building. 

John Hattie and his colleagues, Douglas Fisher and Nacy Frey have identified that literacy becomes the currency of all other learning; is among the antidotes to poverty; gives people more life choices in their work and personal lives, teaches you how to think successively - making meaning one step at a time and just makes your life better! 

We think so too. We are very excited to offer this opportunity to our students and can’t wait to see where it takes them. 

Carolyn Niewand 

Head of Inclusive Education, Secondary School

Evolution and Natural Selection

In the last week of May our Year 10 students travelled to Melbourne Zoo - the focus of which was about realising learning outcomes for our students in the 10 science curriculum.

The Topic: Evolution and Natural Selection. The engagement of students in this topic can be challenging, given description of events in the past. At the zoo, students had unique opportunities to engage, learn and be inspired in this area, seeing real and direct global examples of biodiversity, natural selection and evolutionary processes, as explained by zoo staff. Students were able to handle lion, tiger and snow leopard skins, examine the bones of these animals, and see the living animals at close quarters. These animals are increasingly rare in the wild and face the prospect of extinction, as do local native species if actions to protect habitat is not taken. 

The specialised adaptations of these animals are critical to survival in their habitats, such as the stronger side bones of the jaw in the tiger, which catch prey on land and in water. The Year 10's also completed an activity that investigated the importance of habitats and adaptations in species survival, where natural selection is the connecting factor.

Mr Nevil Schultz

Chemistry, Physics and Science Teacher

Year 9 Market Day Success! 

Our Market Day has come to a close, and what an incredible event it was! 🎉 

A huge shout-out to all our amazing stall holders who brought their A-game and made this Market Day a true shopping extravaganza. From hot foods, lolly bags, fidget toys, drinks and care bags; there was plenty to go around! 

It was incredible to witness some stalls selling out of their fantastic products within mere minutes of opening. Our students’ dedication and hard work this Semester has paid off; raising $654 to their chosen foundation ‘Save the Children’ (https://www.savethechildren.org.au/). 

Miss Rochelle Rabba

Teacher

Melbourne Gallery Excursion

On Thursday June 8th the Year 11 and 12 Art Making and Exhibiting students visited the NGV: Ian Potter Centre on Flinders Street and the NGV International on St Kilda Road in Melbourne. Catching the bus to the city and then exploring the Top Arts exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, students got the chance to experience the exhibition that one of our Year 12, 2022 Studio Art student Riley Thomas, was short listed for. 

The purpose for this excursion was for students to experience the Top Arts Exhibition and to explore the different gallery spaces located within the National Gallery of Victoria, and open students up to ideas around the exhibiting of work and curatorial considerations that are required when putting on an exhibit. 

Both permanent and temporary in nature, given that Top Arts is on show each year, and is not part of the permanent collection of the NGV.  

Students were asked to take in the spaces within the NGV  locations, and take note of how they felt within each of the spaces as a viewer, this was with the intention of them becoming more aware of the experience of the viewer when it comes to the arrangement and display of artworks within the gallery setting.

Miss Ruth Page

Visual Art, and Media Teacher

Lakeside Girls AFL players acquit themselves admirably!

Despite a grey 12 degrees start to the day with steady rain tumbling down, our girl’s AFL football team gathered enthusiastically at school in anticipation of Lakeside’s first interschool AFL football match on Monday 19th June. 

Now proudly wearing the school’s new football jerseys, the team, travelled by bus to Sweeney Reserve in Berwick, accompanied by Mr Hillard and Mr Schultz, the team coaches. They were there to take on a talented team from Koo Wee Rup. 

After a warm-up with stretching and flexibility exercises led by our captain, Kiara H, the students kept warm with several training drills on the oval next to the one they were to play on. After confirming field positions, students ran out onto the field of play, warmed up some more, then the umpire’s whistle sounded to commence the game.

The play was intense with good contest right from the centre-bounce and throughout the game, every one of our players having a “red-hot-go”. Nyayar was impressive in tap-outs from the centre circle, getting the ball to advantage for team mates, especially in the first quarter.

Our girls, despite being of some what smaller stature compared with their opponents, and with a lot less playing experience, played with real heart. It took some time for the Koo Wee Rup side to score against our resolute defence, ably led by Emily K, who thwarted scoring attempts on the goal line several times. It was only a matter of time though that they broke through with a goal, but were made to earn any of their scores.

Kiara played a great captain’s game, often winning one-on-one contests, and was responsible for some excellent clearances. A couple of excellent run-down tackles meant holding-the-ball free kicks went our way on several occasions.

Our players were always in the marking contests. In the second half, they made several stirling mid-field surges, led by Ella, as they pushed the ball into our forward 50, leading to shots on goal. Team spirit remained high throughout the contest, and without fail, the team gathered in a close circle together at the start of each quarter to loudly yell out the team’s “1-2-3-Lakeside!!!!” chant. All played their role and were flexible to move to new positions to advantage the side. Without doubt, the team was an inspiration in their endeavours, and they played four full quarters of great footy. Kiara was definitely in the top 3 votes for both sides, with her stand-out play in defence, midfield and forward attack - a good candidate for best on ground.

To our delight, the sun was out through most of the game. Our opposition were skilled, fair and played in great spirit. As is the custom, 3 cheers were exchanged between teams at the end of the game, and a good day was had by all.

A big thank you to Mr Hillard for his considerable efforts, who put a lot of sustained effort, forward planning and negotiation with his sports counterparts in other schools, to provide the opportunity for our girls to play the college’s inaugural AFL match.

Mr Nevil Schultz, 

Team Coach