Senior School

Senior School Debating

On Friday 17th March we held our first house colours day. This was the start of house events for the year and it began with a bang. The Senior School students and teachers took part in a debate that was not only entertaining but very challenging. The students were amazing and they spoke with intelligent arguments and passion. The team for Deakin, Zac, Tabby and Bek were victorious beating Parkes in the final.

A big thank you to everyone who helped and set up on the day.

Yvonne Hughes 

Head of House

Year 9 Geography

As part of their study of Food Security, 9B students were lucky enough to sample some chilli roasted crickets!​

Daniel Broadbridge

Senior School Teacher

Code Masters Computer Programming Challenge

“Everybody should learn how to program a computer… because it teaches you how to think.”        Steve Jobs

The Melbourne School of Engineering offers a range of exciting opportunities for secondary school students to visit Parkville campus and experience engineering and IT, through the Schools Program.

The annual Code Masters Computer Programming Challenge competition is an open coding contest for high school students from across Australia. A maximum of two teams per school can participate in the on-campus event and only 30 teams are registered. Teams consist of two or three students.

There were a total of 77 teams from 33 schools with 231 students who competed this year both on campus and online.

Congratulations to our Year 9 students, Kaycee, Rohan, Theo and Robert who participated in The University of Melbourne Code Masters competition on Thursday, 16th of March and took home two trophies – 1st AND 2nd place in the junior division!!

http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/engage/schools/codemasters

Junior Division (On campus):

First Place

Kaycee and Rohan

Team Name - Moon Chuck

School - St Andrews Christian College (VIC)

Second Place

Theo and Robert

Team Name - Seagulls 

School - St Andrews Christian College (VIC)

Irena Yevlahova

Careers Coordinator

Comfort Food and Fun Atmosphere...

On Thursday, 29th March, the 9/10 Journalism Elective students enjoyed the Lunch Specials  at “Hog’s Breath” in Knox City as part of their restaurant review project. They discussed the elements of ambience, service and food, as they tucked into a scrumptious meal of fish fillets, wraps, burgers and curly fries. The comments from our budding food critics were:

Rajes Krishnan

Middle and Senior School Teacher

Careers News

On Monday, the 27th  March, The Herald Sun published an interesting article highlighting “if young people were to thrive in hi-tech, global, competitive job market… we should prioritise communication skills, creativity, critical thinking and curiosity.”

In today’s careers newsletter I provide information about St Andrews Career Education Program and two exciting events for Term 2 in which the Year 10s will be involved.

On the day of our Parent/Teacher Interviews on the 2nd May, all Year 9 and 10 students are invited to the Skills Taster Program at Swinburne TAFE, Wantirna Campus. 

Items in the Career News this week include -

•             Veterinary Science and Hospital Open Day - University of Melbourne

•             Snapshot of RMIT University

•             Eastern College Australia

•             What can I do with an Arts Degree?

•             Arts Degrees on offer at Victorian Universities

•             New Bachelor of Information Technology Courses at Federation University

•             Scholarships at Bond University

Previous issues of the Careers News are here:

If you have a question about a topic featured in the Careers Newsletter, please contact Careers Coordinator Mrs Irena Yevlahova iyevlahova@standrews.vic.edu.au

Irena Yevlahova

Careers Coordinator