Events  

Worlds Greatest Shave

On Thursday June 2nd, our very own team of brave shavers came together to mark the end of what was an amazing month of fundraising. As a whole, the team of twelve raised over $15,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation and laid the foundations for a successful annual event. 

The Leukaemia Foundation is a large scale, charity organisation founded in 1975 by Dr Trevor Olsen that works to ensure better lives for individuals directly affected by leukaemia cancer as well as providing support for families and loved ones. 

Early in the year, the school captain’s decided to run a World’s Greatest Shave Event as a way to facilitate students already shaving outside of school, give opportunities to those still unsure, and raise awareness throughout the community.

It was incredible to see the whole school community come together and support this great cause, and the turnout on Thursday was amazing. To cap the event off, World’s Greatest Shave’s own Pooja Ingle spoke to the students about the importance of their donations. 

It was a special day for all of us, and on behalf of the whole shave team I would like to thank everyone who donated and supported the cause, and the teachers who bravely sacrificed their warm clothes to get ice bucketed. It was a fantastic event and the effort we all put in will be greatly appreciated by so many people. 

Thank you and hopefully we will see this event reemerge in years to come. 

By Benjamin Russell

Year 11 History Exhibition Visit

Contributors: Amber Dwivedi, Cassandra Ooi, Benjamin Pringle, Vivienne Sangalang, Jacob Schwarz, Kiani Wilkin, and Ms. Jodie Smith 

On Friday 29th of April our year 11 history class visited the Sir Louis Matheson Library to view the You See What She’s Saying exhibition, and meet with Manager of Special Collections, Anne Holloway. 

For many years, students have been taught history through dates and textbooks. Our visit to the library taught us one of the ways history is seen in the real world, which is through exhibitions. As part of our classwork, we reflected on the experience, recognising that “this was definitely a new experience for doing history,” allowing us to understand how it occurs outside of the classroom. Through Anne’s careful explanations we were also able to learn the processes that occur in the lead up to an exhibition, the significance of historical artefacts and the ways they link through specific exhibits. This exhibition showed us how history is continuous, displaying the influence that previous events have on us today. 

Throughout the exhibition, Anne explained the rationale behind each case. The main theme of the exhibition was women’s work throughout history, from past to present times. Women’s work has had a long history of being ignored and disregarded, and is still a prominent issue to this day. To address this, the exhibition shines a light on hidden voices and puts them in the spotlight. Not just women, but immigrants and people in the LGBTQIA+ community. You See What She’s Saying aims to uplift all perspectives that are usually disregarded in these spaces commonly occupied by straight, white men. Anne and fellow curators accomplished this by combining visual art of all mediums: film, photo books, written diaries and illustrations, to fully and better express the artists’ intentions.

After the visit to the museum, we took the concepts from the visit into creating our own online museum exhibition as a class on Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, with each of us constructing our own panel. Our exhibition and individual panels were made using a Google website with each student having a main topic to further dive into. This was done as our third assessment task of Semester 1. For the website, we took the connections between sources that were seen in the library museum to link to each main topic. The whole class also decided to use the complementation between the pieces in the exhibit to create a greater link between our individual topics and the main idea. 

The exhibition is still on display at the Louis Matheson library until the 27th of June here at Monash University Clayton, and we highly recommend a visit. 

Destress Fest

On Wednesday 22nd June, all the Year 12's came together for a BBQ fest to celebrate the end of Term 2. 

It has been a big term and we hope all our students have a restful break and come back in Term 3 rested and revived!