Whole School News
WHOLE SCHOOL NEWS
News from The Language Department
Open Day
During our school Open Day, The Language Team presented our language programs including primary school Mandarin, middle school Mandarin, VCE Mandarin, Bilingual Program, and China Trip to our families. Some of our students’ excellent projects such as cultural posters, three-dimensional artworks and craftworks were also displayed at the language corner.
Harmony Week – Postcards to Chinese Sister Schools Workshop
When was the last time you wrote a postcard to someone living far away from you? Did you write it to a close friend or a stranger? Celebrating Harmony Week, our primary and secondary school students are giving our sister schools in China a big and lovely surprise! These postcards with warm greetings and blessings as well as beautiful decoration will be posted to China very soon. We hope our friends in China are well and we could meet them again in the future.
Year 9 Global Youth Forum
Recently, a group of our Year 9 students has been selected to take part in the virtual program “Victorian Young Leaders: Global Youth Forums 2023”, an initiative of the Victorian Department of Education. The theme for this year is 'Reimagining Education'. In this program, students work across Victorian schools with their international student peers to critically discuss concepts of global citizenship and identity, investigate global challenges facing the international community, exercise design thinking to generate ideas to these challenges, and undertake a collaborative group design challenge that seeks to prototype a solution.
Our students believe a positive wellbeing is very important to every one of us. After careful consideration, they decided to tackle the issue – vaping – for our local community because it has become a serious problem, affecting student health and growth. Our students have presented their action plan in the forums and received feedback from their peers, teachers, as well as experts from the education field. Their great excitement for bringing the plan to life and being the change for our society demonstrates the caring nature of our Collingwood students.
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Student Ashanti Joy is co-presenting with the event host to introduce a guest speaker Jahin Tanvir.
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Students Ami-Aseda Adediran, Johanna Mackiewicz-Turner, Shahad Elfaki, Zsofia Stravropoulos, Johar Singh are sharing ideas with their international peers online.
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Students Raeanna Lauren (Raeanna) Basa, Alvy Rebacca, Hong (Minh) Le, Benjamin Holmes, Ashanti Joy, and Shahad Elfaki are discussing global issues with their international peers online.
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Students are brainstorming ideas about the “cultural iceberg”. They need to discuss what they think some of the observable and unobservable elements are of their international peer's culture.
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Student Johanna Mackiewicz-Turner is presenting ideas on behalf of her group to the event host online.
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Student Hong (Minh) Le is presenting the ideas from his group to the event host and other schools online.
Xiaoming Li
Chinese Language PLC LeaderYr9-12 Chinese Language / Yr9 Humanities Teacher
INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE (updated 15 February) - Contact Person - Steve Wu
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