Inews Update 1

Jack wins State Chess

Northcote High School Senior Chess Team travelled to Brighton Grammar to participate in the Open Secondary State Final Chess Championships. While Northcote achieved seventh place in the Open Secondary division, Jack Puccini, the NHS Chess Captain, won the event winning 8 games, and drawing one, with old rival Ari Dale from Melbourne High, (formerly a Northcote HS student).

Finley Dale won 5 1/2 out of 9 games, and continues to show he is a very good chess player.  Joseph Hatton and Daniel Zou and Liam Morgan also played with focus and strategical game plans to ensure the team success.

These are the statistics for the tournament 

Name          Score     Countback          Placed

Jack Puccini         8½          56½        1st

Finley Dale            5½          56           26th

Daniel Zou             4            37           87th

Joseph Hatton     3½          31½         100th

Liam Morgan        2              22          126th 

Northcote High School's Middle Years Chess Team also performed extremely well in the Chess Kids State Final held at Serpell Primary School. Max Simpson (Middle Years Chess Captain), Thomas Loeu and Ben Murphy won all their first three rounds.

Unfortunately, they were overwhelmed by some excellent players from other schools. All players continue to show they are outstanding chess players.  Below are the statistics for the tournament.

Individual player results

Name         Score     Countback          Placed

Ben Murphy       6              51           21st

Thomas Loeu     6              47           26th

Max Simpson     5½          48           38th

Mr Geoff Thomas

New Building Commences

New building work has already commenced at NHS. In one of the photos below, Captain Tom Hughes and friends Dorian Friday, Grace Klimek, Bill Zeng and Claire Cottrall discuss the idea of calling our new two story building The Mr Murphy Centre for Higher Learning. After all, said Dorian, it will be two stories. It will be completed in time for the 2016 school year.

Greetings from Yangzi HS!!

The Victorian Young leaders to China (VYLC) have settled into our home for the next 3 weeks at Yangzi High School, outside Nanjing. We arrived at 11.30 PM on Saturday night, and were straight into bed after a long day travelling. Then we had our welcoming ceremony on Sunday at 9.00 AM sharp. Every important person was there, Principals from both schools we are attending, officials from the International Education organisation and government officials, as well as our students language buddies and their parents. Our students were brilliant. The room was hot. They were really tired, and they all had their full suits and ties on. But not a word of complaint or distraction for the whole hour. 

This morning was the weekly flag raising ceremony, with a special welcome for us. Then more classes, this time calligraphy and Tai Chi, followed by more language classes.

Ms Sarah Green