Senior School

Find Your Voice Choir

Some very proud King's College students and staff performed with the Find Your Voice Choir at the Port Fairy Folk Festival on the Labour Day long weekend. The Find Your Voice Choir is an inclusive choir which champions 'all abilities' and was received with overwhelming support and joy. Over 3000 people danced and sang as the choir performed with world renowned artists such as The Waifs, Eric Bibb, Scott Cook, Steve Poltz and 19-Twenty.

Rose Pritchard

Senior School Teacher

Clean Up Australia Day

During our Community Service class, the Year 9 students were blessed with great weather to participate in Clean Up Australia Day last week. With the help of Mr Bergagard, we were able to split into two teams and head out to clean up along Russells Creek. One group started at Whites Rd and the other group started at Mortlake Rd and organised to meet in the middle on Garden St. We filled the bags with rubbish of all kinds, including some oddities like one Nike shoe and a trampoline (not the metal frame). The students brought an enthusiastic attitude and a preparedness to look after each other and this beautiful creation that God has given humankind charge over.

Marko Wakim

Chaplain

Year 9/10 Food Tech

I forgot to take a photo of the food but this is how we like to wait for our cakes to come out of the oven. We learn to waltz! That's right. The Food Tech class has some class! Mothers should be prepared to be whipped around their own kitchen to the tunes of the 'Second Waltz'. Good times with a lovely group.

Rose Pritchard

Senior School Teacher

Year 10 English

We have just begun a study of Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In introducing students to some of the themes we will be unpacking as we study this novel, students participated in an agree/disagree activity. This involved students moving towards the allocated side of the room for ‘agreement’ to or ‘disagreement’ to a statement that was read out. Students were asked to justify their decisions as they moved around the room.

Another activity students participated in as an introduction to the text, was based around the advice of Atticus  who states ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’ In place of walking around in someone else’s skin, students were asked to choose a pair of shoes and imagine the life of a person who may wear the shoes - to consider what it might be like to ‘walk’ in their steps for a day. This led to some very interesting ideas being put forward, some laughs and some creativity, but it also enabled some good discussion around the assumptions we make about how people present to us, even simply down to the shoes they wear. I am looking forward to the ongoing discussions of the Year 10 students, and their insights as we work through our study of this text.

Kath Haworth

Assistant Head of Senior School