Secondary School News

Term 1

Congratulations to all students on thriving during a longer than usual Term 1. Students across the college have participated in an array of excursions, camps and learning activities which has seen them engaged and excited in the school grounds.

Lots was happening across the secondary school with three camps, NAPLAN, excursions, harmony week celebrations, Top Arts and Top Class representatives, Morrisby Interviews, community breakfast, Global Youth Forum conference, Rotary Interact food drive, Collingwood College Open Day, Swimming Carnival and Three Way Conferences.

Well done to our Intermediate Boys Volleyball Team in making it into the State Finals in May! We are very excited to see how the next sports round goes.

Many thanks to Mark Campbell and Hassen Mohamed-Saeed both departing the school at the end of term. Thank you for your hard work and support of our students. We are excited to announce some new staff members joining us next term in their absence.

Wishing all our families a safe holiday period. Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday April 26th!

Angela Watters

Secondary Assistant Principal

Year 9 English Author Visit - Tony Birch

This week Year 9 students (and teachers!) were very fortunate to have Tony Birch visit the school and talk about his text Shadowboxing which has been the focus of study and learning this term in English classes. It is incredibly special to have a local author be able to speak to students about a text set locally in Fitzroy and surrounding neighbourhoods during the 1960s. Tony is an engaging speaker who shared personal accounts of his life, and it was especially interesting to hear of the influences and connections that helped form the stories he has written. The notion of hardwork and where it can take us was a prominent takeaway.

‘I found the day as fascinating as it was hard to listen to at times. I thought that Tony Birch was an intriguing individual with a high intellect and a real story to tell. When I heard about him growing up I could correlate everything he had written in the book to his real life growing up experiences.’ Noey Grambas 9A

Students also visited the Melbourne Museum and undertook a self-guided exploration of the Melbourne and First Nations exhibitions to further their understanding of the changes that have occurred across Melbourne over time.

Year 9 English Teaching Team: Lori Michael, Nick Alexiou and Alex McDonald

Professional Reading Book Club for Teachers

The Professional Reading Book Club was introduced this term for interested teachers wishing to engage with academic reading material. Readings thus far have included articles and podcasts on restorative practices and positive framing, and learning-oriented classrooms. This has been a great opportunity to have conversations with colleagues around different educational issues and teaching/learning strategies in a professional but social context.

FYI - Reading sources:

Creating Cultures of Thinking: Ron Ritchhart

What is Positive Framing? Doug Lemov

Sweat the Technique podcast: Doug Lemov & Ravi Gupta

Inter-school Sport - Volleyball

State Finals – Here We Come

As winners of the Moreland Division Intermediate Boys volleyball competition, we travelled to Reservoir to compete in the Northern Metropolitan Regional Finals.

Our Year 10 boys – Callum O’Neill (capt), Charlie Sullivan, Jackson Carter-Nicolson, Luka Jansen Vreling, Luca Giampetrone, Casey Mathieson and Blaise Jackson have been training, with me, at 7.30am to be ready for this event to try to secure a place in the 2023 I.B. Victorian State Volleyball Finals.

This event had fierce competition from the best schools in the eight Northern Metropolitan Regions, which has volleyball specific schools, BUT Collingwood College came, saw, and conquered going unbeaten throughout the whole day, with a highlight of winning 2 – 0 against Eltham College, who were favourites for the flag.

I cannot say how proud it was to see the boys compete, rally, motivate each other when decisions went against us, watch our competitors and plan strategies of attack across the entire day. Boys you did yourselves and Collingwood College proud.

Now the real work starts with a place in the Victorian State finals in May 2023. I’m researching flights and hotels as we speak….!!!

Lets do this……

James Agombar

Head of Health, Physical Education & Sport

Collingwood College

INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE (updated 15 February) - Contact Person - Steve Wu

Please click on the attachment below to see a list of Stringed instruments for sale. If you have an instrument for sale please email Steve at: fengchih.09@gmail.com

List of instruments for sale - 15 Feburary 2023.pdf

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