Current Highlights

The Addams Family

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky … and they put on a stunning performance!

For three consecutive performances in May, our Senior School students took us on a journey of the bizarre and eccentric with their performance of the iconic The Addams Family.

The story of a family coming to terms with the intrusion of the modern world into their dark macabre one uses a love story between daughter, Wednesday, and Lucas Beineke, a conservative, well-mannered and sweet young man from Ohio, to illustrate the struggle we often have in embracing differences and change.

The acting and singing by all cast members and the Chorus (Ancestors) was of an incredibly high standard. The audience was treated to: ‘When You’re an Addams’, ‘Fester’s Manifesto’, ‘One Normal Night’, ‘I’m Crazier than You’ and ‘Trapped’. We also got to click away to the theme music.

Supported by an outstanding band, backstage crew, sets, costumes, and hair and make-up, The Addams Family was a truly memorable performance by a group of very talented young people and staff. Brava!

Sport Centre Opening

Sport is such a key part of the Australian psyche – especially in Melbourne and Victoria – and crucial for physical and mental wellbeing, so it is exceptionally gratifying that in Kilvington Grammar’s 96th year, we have an outstanding, purpose-built Sport Centre.

Our students and staff are already enjoying the Centre’s facilities including an impressive, full-size sprung court designed for students to play basketball, netball, volleyball, indoor soccer, badminton and more. 

It also includes a fitness room, a multipurpose space for table tennis, dance and other pursuits, change rooms, classrooms, a kitchen, maintenance workrooms, offices and spaces for 26 staff cars. 

While each of its parts are wonderful spaces in themselves, more importantly the Sport Centre as a whole represents and reaffirms Kilvington’s commitment to a holistic education – the development of mind, body and spirit. It is a place that symbolises sportsmanship, teamwork, persistence, participation and joy; the heart of sport and physical wellbeing at Kilvington. 

Our new Sport Centre also demonstrates our commitment to a competitive Sport program. Over the past decade, we have seen the successful and rapid expansion of sport at the School. This reflects our strategy of appointing quality teaching staff, mentors and coaches, and the development of a Sport Training Program.

Congratulations to our Sport Department for their passionate investment in our Sport program which saw our School elected to a Division 1 Athletics school this year.

The establishment of our new Sport Centre is the next phase in our commitment to build a sport program at Kilvington that enables us to compete even better, to encourage and drive participation, as well as offer spaces to develop and nurture physical and mental wellbeing.

The official opening of the Sport Centre will be next term on Thursday 18 July.  

My sincere thanks to the Kilvington community for your support throughout this project, and extra special thanks to the families and individuals who have donated most generously to it. 

The completion of this building is another defining moment in our School’s rich history. 

Kilvington Fair and Open Day

One of the four pillars of a Kilvington education is the pillar of Community.  Our goal is to build a connected and giving community at Kilvington, a people of generous spirit, which is in line with our School motto, Non nobis sed omnibus, Not for our own, but other’s good. 

The amazing 2019 Kilvington Fair and Open Day, held in March, could not have been a better expression of the strength of our connected and giving community.  It was a perfect example of who we are as a people and what we continually strive to become. 

The contribution from our entire community was outstanding. Families supported the event by cooking and running food, jam and bake stalls, volunteered their time to sell plants, books, toys and clothes, run lucky games, helped set up and pack up, sponsored rides and services – so we could provide them free of charge - donated items for our Silent Auction and provided henna and face painting services.

Students gave up their Saturday and took families on School tours, performed musical items, helped out with a range of activities including hair beading and braiding, manicures and running experiences such as The Haunted House. Former students provided support on our Alumni and Sno Cone Stalls.

Staff accompanied students on School tours, set up faculty displays throughout the School to showcase the range of subjects and electives on offer at Kilvington and provided support on a range of stalls and activities.

On the day, I had numerous conversations with people from within and outside our community.  One comment still resonates and will for some time.  “Your families get on so well and are so happy.  What a wonderful group of people”.   

To our whole community, I say thank you for your attendance on the day and for your contributions and efforts to make it such a success. I am thrilled that the PFA’s fundraising efforts of $28,000 will go towards upgrading play areas and landscaping. 

It is a wonderful privilege to be part of this community.

“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller.

Jon Charlton

Principal