2022 Athletics Team Report

Eastern Metropolitan Region Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to all students who represented the College in the EMR Track & Field Championships. It was very pleasing to see the outstanding level of competition and skill displayed by our students. Due to the fantastic effort of all the athletes, Wheelers Hill finished in the top 10 schools for Eastern Metropolitan Region. An amazing effort!

Individual competitor results include:

Cooper Bertram Gold Medal 14Yr 100m Hurdles

Gold Medal 14Yr 100m

Gold Medal 14Yr 200m

Gold Medal 14Yr 400m

Eric Trinkle Gold Medal 20Yr 1500m

Silver Medal 20Yr 3000m

Jasmine Hamilton Gold Medal 16Yr High Jump

Silver Medal 16Yr 400m

Bronze Medal 16Yr 200m

Bronze Medal 16Yr Long Jump

5th place 16Yr 100m

Tilly Ferrier Silver Medal 13Yr Triple Jump

Joseph Arhuere Silver Medal 13Yr Triple Jump

Bronze Medal 13Yr 100m

Bronze Medal 13Yr 200m

Tom McPherson Silver Medal 13Yr Shot Put

5th place 13Yr High Jump

Max Bucci Silver Medal 13Yr Javelin

Samantha Mangan Bronze Medal 15Yr 800m

4th place 15Yr 400m

Catherine Gualtieri Bronze Medal 20Yr Long Jump

4th place 20Yr Triple Jump

Bianca Jorgic Bronze Medal 16Yr Discus

6th place 16Yr Triple Jump

Tayla Steele Silver Medal 17Yr 4x100m relay

Matilda Davies

Patricia Didomenico

Sophie Bertram

Leilea Cocker 4th place 13Yr 800m

Lochie Agius 4th place 16Yr Triple Jump

Isaiah Peka 4th place 15Yr High Jump

Sophie Bertam 4th place 17Yr 100m Hurdles

6th place 17Yr Triple Jump

Isabella Corso 4th place 14Yr Triple Jump

Ben Weinert 4th place 15Yr Javelin

Shakaya VanDerMatten 4th place 16Yr Javelin

Tj Cunningham 4th place 16Yr Discus

5th place 16Yr Shot Put

Olivia Tavella 5th place 20Yr 4x100m relay

Catherine Gualtieri

Logan McKenzie

Maddie Collins

Patricia Didomenico 6th place 17Yr Long Jump

Charli Paterson 6th place 14Yr Shot Put

9th place 14Yr Discus

Lochie Everetts 6th place 15Yr 200m

8th place 15Yr 100m

Lochie Everetts 6th place 15Yr 4x100m relay

Elai Butcher

Isaiah Peka

Lachie Naylor

Jack Gaal 6th place 20Yr 4x100m relay

Jake Edwards

Lachlan Palmer

Jack Craig

Hannah Wright 8th place 16Yr 800m

Tijana Pejic 8th place 14Yr Javelin

Jake Edwards 8th place 20Yr 800m

Jeriah Papatua 9th place 14Yr 1500m

11th place 14Yr 800m

Mia Burridge 9th place 13Yr 1500m

Lachlan Johnston 9th place 17Yr 800m

Jack Craig 10th place 20Yr 800m

Jeriah Papatua 11th place 14Yr 800m

Makayla Larkin 11th place 15Yr 1500m

Drew Taylor 12th place 14Yr 800m

Kalani Cust 13th place 15Yr 1500m

We wish Cooper Bertram, Eric Trinkle and Jasmine Hamilton the best of luck for the upcoming SSV State Athletics Championships.

English and Literacy News

As I sit here and write this article, the rain is pounding my office window and the sky is white with cloud cover. Thank goodness I chose this one to be our Spooky Season piece about all the wild and wonderful Gothic texts we read and study at Wheelers Hill Secondary College!

Our hard-working library staff has put together this amazing array of Gothic novels, from classics to graphic novels and everything in between. Please ask Jane or Tracey if they can help you out with finding something gripping and suspenseful!

To further reinforce our Gothic-themed article, our Year 9 English students have been writing creatively about some of the texts they’ve been analysing in class. Below is a creative response to Edward Scissorhands which seeks to encompass the loss and madness that is archetypical of a Gothic piece:

To my dearest Edward,

If you are reading this letter, I have passed. This will include all the things I meant to say but did not get the chance to. As I had never had children of my own, you were the equivalent; someone I was able to take care of and help through unknowing times. I have always been someone who was always driven to make the newest invention or create something absurd it sometimes made me insane. It took away the time I had very little left of.

From my youth I always had a wondering mind. Constantly had my nose in a book and was joint at the hip to my father who at the time worked at a machinery factory. I was very curious and fascinated to what it could do or what it could do with minor tweaks. When I was 15 years of age, I was able to get my first job where my father worked. I learned how to handle metal and many other materials, which led me to creating my own factory later on. With experience in my first job, I was able to finish high school and enter college gaining a degree in engineering. It was when I was in my 20s where I had produced the spencher, an obstacle of machinery to make baked goods faster and more efficiently. Personally, I was never a cook or baker, this construction was perfect for me. How did you think I always had cookies?

To be frank I have never had a friend, partner or a stable household. That was one of many reasons I created you Edward. Apart from creating machinery, I wanted to invent the unimaginable. Of course, I had to add some sort of aspect of metalwork that is why I bestowed scissor hands upon you. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that I would create such a kind, compassionate and wholehearted person. Everything I designed had its complications but with you, you turned out exactly as imaged. I have never been so proud of not only my capabilities but also the way you came to life.

Having never experienced the outside world I became very closed off and secluded in life. When I was much younger I was apart of society, but I was not very social. I did not know how to be. My mother abandoned me at age 7 when she found someone better than my father who could provide for her and give her an exhilarating life, something I would see her day dreaming about. Then my father passed from a heart attack when I was 19 years of age. I never had anyone to rely on except myself. I know my days are numbered as have not been feeling too well myself. I was planning for our future; I wanted us to move out into the world where I can continue my experiments with other scientists and where you could portray something close to a normal life. I wanted to give you the life I never got to have. One with family, friends people to rely on when things became south. Love. A partner, a family of your own is what I wish for your future.

You will forever be my best invention. With such life and compassion in you, just express yourself and be you even when other will not accept you. I am very proud of the person you have become and hope you can manage through life without me by your side. Even in the afterlife, I will keep the times I would read you a story from one of my most treasured books to which you would sit and listen near and dear to my heart. Thank you Edward and good luck.

Sincerely, Inventor.

We have been blessed with new additions to our English staff this semester and I’d like to formally introduce Krista Rainsford, Jordan Halkidis, Phyllis Chee and Jessica Zhu to our wider community. They have all found their feet very quickly and are enjoying teaching a range of students from Years 7 to 9. We are benefitting from their expertise, collaboration, fresh ideas and enthusiasm to continue building on all the gains we’ve made in English and Literacy at the College.

Our Year 12 English and EAL students are nearing their final exams; in fact, the English exam is exactly two weeks away as I finish this article! Kellie Goebel, Fei Hu and I have been so impressed with the improvement our students have been making with their practice essays and we encourage them to keep writing, planning, brainstorming and sending them through to us for feedback.

Motivational Mondays will continue for the Year 11s after the 12s finish formal classes and enter their dedicated study period before their first exam. We encourage our 12s to make appointments to see their teachers to confer about their writing and different ways to improve before Wednesday 26 October.

I’m sure the Wheelers Hill Secondary College community will join with me in wishing these students all the very best for the final stretch of their VCE experience. We are very proud of you all!

Felicity Graham-Prowse

Literacy Learning Specialist and English Learning Area Leader

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