Delahey Campus Principal Message 

April 2023, 

Pizza

We finally got our pizza oven working! We had a test firing on Wednesday to cure the oven our VM students built in 2023. Enthusiastic chefs from our current VM Projects classes were putting together some pizzas for an eager and hungry selection of projects staff as a test run for a fundraising project they will be running later in the year. The smell of woodsmoke on a rainy day was  a pleasant addition to the ambiance  of the college. 

Harmony

On 23 March we had a Harmony week celebration at the Delahey campus. Studentsm, came to school in cultural dress, performed various cultural songs and dances and the SRC also organised a foodtruck to serve kebabs and halal snack packs for students. It was a beautiful celebration of the diversity and connection of our community.

Feedback

As we mentioned in our last Campus Principal’s report one of our key goals at Delahey this year is that:

Just to give the council a concrete example of what that might mean we thought we might share these photos from a recent Year 11 Health Class. You might remember, from your own high school days, getting long comments on your work may be reading over them once, noting the mark out of 100 and then throwing the assignment into the bottom of your bag never to be thought of again. One of the key goals for all VCE Teachers is to give students the feedback they need to consciously improve but also to make sure students pay attention to that feedback. 

What these photos show is the teacher has given feedback to each individual question in a Health SAC, but then in groups of four,  students have been given the feedback mixed up, so that they have to look at the answers across the table and match the feedback to the answer. This took a lot of discussion and careful consideration. Students then scored their own papers based on the feedback they had matched, if they didn’t get within 3 points of the teacher’s score they had to try again! It was really great to see the kids working so hard together on this task and really engaging with the feedback from their teacher.

Mr Renato Carinci and  Mr Dan Sullivan

Campus Principals