Other School News

Katina Astles

Transition Coordinator

MasterChef Event

Tuesday, 4 June, we had the privilege of hosting a MasterChef event, focusing on food as a way of expressing our identities and bringing people together.

 

Our Senior VCAL students, Stef, Tawan and Kay, did an absolutely stellar job of running workshops for students from neighbouring primary schools.

 

Mayor of Geelong, Bruce Harwood joined our Principal in judging the Mystery Box challenge.

 

Guest chef, Ben Shewry taught the students so much more than just how to make a carbonara. He shared personal stories of what it was like to go from a primary school of 7 students (two of whom were his sisters) to a high school of 400. He shared that it is not how good your skills are or who you worked for or trained with, but your attitude and willingness to help others that is crucial and what he looks for when he hires staff at his restaurant, "Attica". Ben also told a story of a teacher, Mrs Marshall whose kindness changed his life and emphasised that, in and out of the kitchen, kindness is what is most important. I hope this is something we can all reflect on, as a choice we all have, every day.

 

Thanks again to Tonia, Alison, Bridgette, Sue, Val and the office staff, Jo, Luke Sharp, Sherryn, Nick, Paul, Georgia, John Hines, Pete and also to Mitch Fraser for being photographer for the day. Also to Simon for creating the wonderful mystery boxes and Tobi who made an incredibly generous donation of one of his knives as a gift to Ben Shewry who commented that it was, “the most beautiful knife he’d ever seen.”

LOTE CORNER

Recently North Geelong Secondary School performed well in the Education Perfect Victorian Languages Championship 2019. In this championship students were able to practice their language skills while earning points for the school. We were well represented by our Japanese and German learners, and our school came 32nd out of 81 in our school size category and 97th out of 280 schools overall. Two of our students received awards for their participation. Our Japanese language learners Ellie Coles received the Bronze Award (500+ individual points) and Harper Clifton received the Gold Award (3000+ individual points). Congratulations on your wonderful efforts.

Sacred Heart Art Show

Recently Year 11 student Yekaterina Krivogus 

submitted  artwork in the Sacred Heart Art Show 

that was held over the Queens Birthday weekend

Yekaterina is a talented student who not only had her work accepted for exhibition, but also sold work.

 

Great to see Yekaterina taking the initiative and  becoming involved with the wider community.